Equilinox

About this game

Equilinox is a relaxing nature game which allows you to create and nurture your very own diverse ecosystem of plants and animals. Sit back, start growing, and watch your world blossom and evolve in front of you!

Create

You can start creating your ecosystems by placing plants and animals into your world. Having a variety of plants and trees will make the terrain more fertile and allow wildlife to flourish, while animals will begin to earn you points which can be used to purchase various in-game resources.

Nurture

Every animal and plant has its own life-cycle, unique behaviors and requirements, so you need to ensure that each species is satisfied with its environment, has enough resources, and that the ecosystems are balanced. Healthy, happy animals will live longer, breed more, and earn you more points.

Evolve

The points you earn can also be used to genetically modify your species, allowing you to manipulate the traits and behaviors of your species for various benefits. You can also evolve your current wildlife to unlock more exotic plants, trees and creatures.

Progress

There are multiple in-game tasks that can be completed to gain rewards such as extra diversity points or new content. Some tasks can be repeated, making it possible to farm certain plants and animals to receive a regular income of diversity points.

Get Creative!

Equilinox also has a fully sandbox mode where you can place as many plants and animals as you like, plus you can genetically modify them to your heart's content! Create swarms of super fast pink wolves, high bouncing rainbow sheep, pixel art made from colored mushrooms, beautiful low-poly scenes, or anything else that you can think of. The possibilities are endless!

Latest news

• Announcements·31 May 2019Official

  Equilinox Creative Mode!

  Create beautiful low-poly scenes, mushroom pixel art, giant swarms of bees, and much, much more in the new Creative Mode! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33866179/566e9f65d242f7157b353273b3220ee8d0509c36.png Creative mode is finally here! This fully-sandbox mode allows you to place as many plants and animals as you want without any environmental restrictions, plus you can modify their traits for free! There are also various new tools that have been added to this game mode to make scene creation a bit easier. Creative Mode Features: Unlimited placing of plants/animals. Unlimited trait modification. New color customization options. The ability to "duplicate" an object, copying all its traits. Hold M when placing to place multiple objects at once. Hold N when placing animals to place a "swarm" of animals. Day/Night cycle controls. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33866179/3d90d40a8e8822cdc3cb4c9216623dd33c2cc713.png And that's not all! There are also a few other improvements and features in this update, including one new species: Dolphins! The full list of changes in this update can be found below: New Features Two new game modes: Creative and Simulation mode. Dolphins! These aquatic mammals dive in and out of the water when they're happy. Tweaks Environmental Factors are now always displayed in the same order. Beavers and Deer now also have a color trait, allowing you to modify their colors. Bug Fixes Fixed overlapping task requirements on smaller displays. Water mesh should no longer clip through the edges of the world. Newly evolved land species can no longer accidentally spawn in the water. Only full-grown Healblooms now produce seeds. Fixed a crash caused by meerkat movement. Fixed an issue where double-clicking the "Generate" new world button would cause task progress to get wiped on the previous world. Fixed a problem with display resolution when swapping to a lower resolution monitor. https://...
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• Patch Notes·26 Apr 2019Official

  Meerkats and More! - Update 1.6.0

  There are three new species to unlock in this update including meekats, the first burrowing animal in Equilinox! There are also two new tasks to complete and an interesting new rock formation which you can use to add more variety to your landscapes. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33866179/8e6dbded60a3ea9800fd853d7fe744f427cb7dd8.png The full list of changes in this update is as follows: New Features Meerkats! These burrowing animals dig a network of holes and tunnels in their territory and use them for transport and to hide from predators. They also often stand on their back two legs to keep an eye out for danger. Two new plant species to unlock. Desert grass provides a new food source for desert biome animals, and the marigolds are pretty flowers which can live in higher altitude woodland areas. Two new tasks to complete, one to do with the eagles and one involving the new meerkats. A new type of rock which looks rather nice in desert landscapes. Bug Fixes When placing objects in the world the placement UI no longer overlaps with text from other UIs (was mostly a problem with the notification UI). Guinea pigs no longer run off the edge of the world while "Panicking". If you'd like to take a behind-the-scenes look at how I went about implementing the meerkats into Equilinox then you can check out last week's devlog video: https://youtu.be/90CZ7Q17sls Also, I realize that I forgot to put out an announcement on Steam for the previous update of Equilinox, Update 1.5! So in case you missed it, there are now flies and carnivorous plants in the game. These plants are able to grab passing flies with their long "tongues" before consuming them. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33866179/78e1fe65ae7ab9837aecc754cd99b6290a817d7b.png I hope you enjoy the updates and if you have any questions, issues, or feedback then please do send me an email to thinmatrix@gmail.com. You can also see more regular updates abou...
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• Patch Notes·22 Feb 2019Official

  Birds of Prey! - Update 1.4.0

  This update adds three new species to Equilinox, including eagles, jelly fish, and a special jungle plant! The full list of changes in this update is as follows: New Features Eagles! These birds live in the mountains but can swoop down to nearby biomes to go hunting for smaller animals. When they catch their prey they carry it back to the nest to feed their young. Jellyfish! These strange fish will sting any fish that come too close and can be genetically modified to be harmless or very effective killers. The jungle has one new bush species which blooms spectacularly only once a year. One new task has been added. Tweaks Foxes can now also hunt small mammals as well as chickens. The requirements for unlocking the wolf have been changed. Bug Fixes Foxes are no longer able to hunt underwater! Fixed the issue with unclickable meat models (all meat previously in your world will still be unclickable, but will be fixed after a while. All new meat will be fine). Fixed an issue where the R key wasn't resetting the camera in some situations. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33866179/2332767435cea9278ec97a03038fd5347f0a8f7d.png If you're interested in seeing how I implemented the eagles into Equilinox last week then you can check out this devlog video: https://youtu.be/U6pthgih8xM As always, please let me know if you have any problems or have found any bugs! You can contact me directly at any time by emailing me at thinmatrix@gmail.com or get in touch on the Discord server: https://discord.gg/ktsWT8Q Thanks! Karl
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• Patch Notes·18 Jan 2019Official

  More Fish! - Update 1.3.0

  This week there are four new species of fish to unlock as well as a few useful improvements to the UI. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33866179/b539abb54707b318897af498c5ce713a431a2c4c.png New Features Four new types of fish to unlock! The shops now have a search option, allowing you to search for a species by its name. Clicking on a locked species now gives you more information about how to unlock it. Old notifications are stored in the notification log, in the "Stats and Info" tab. One new task to do with the new fish. In the "Stats and Info" panel (previously called "Progress" panel), in the checklists for the plants and animals you can now click on an arrow button to go to the chosen species in the world. Tweaks The "Progress" tab has been renamed and has a new icon to better reflect its content. When clicking on the notification for a newly evolved species, the "Species Information" panel gets shown, allowing you to quickly read about the species before moving it to a new habitat. Bug Fixes Fixed an issue with transplanting where the home area was not always updated. Doves should be easier to evolve now. Renamed a couple of misleading species names (species that had the same name as a category, such as "Desert Tree"). That's everything for this week! The updates will be a bit more frequent from now on, now that I'm back to work on Equilinox after the holidays. Let me know if you have any suggestions or have found any other bugs! You can contact me directly at any time by emailing me at thinmatrix@gmail.com or get in touch on the Discord server: https://discord.gg/ktsWT8Q Hope you're all having a lovely start to 2019! Karl
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• Patch Notes·15 Dec 2018Official

  Camels and Coral - Update 1.2.0

  The first new species have been added in to Equilinox this week! There are now some rather angry camels for the desert and a couple of new objects for the underwater biomes. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33866179/6486ec002ca85bafd7e52778f248bfeb427bbdc7.png New Features Camels! This animal lives in the desert biome and will sometimes spit at other nearby animals. Coral and shells have been added for the water biomes. There's one new task to do with the camels spitting. You can go into super slow-mo mode by holding space, which makes it easier to click on fast moving animals (and also looks pretty cool). Tweaks Wolves and Foxes now have customizable colours. Lilies and Roses can now also live in the lush biome. Lilies have a pacifying effect on bees. Slightly tweaked possible mutation colours. Autosaves won't happen quite as often. Bug Fixes Fixed an issue with plants sometimes being instantly fully-grown when placed. Palm trees now show their colour trait correctly. The mouseover test for entity pop-ups was a bit wrong sometimes and has now been fixed. Let me know if you have any suggestions or have found any other bugs! You can send me an email to thinmatrix@gmail.com or let me know on the Discord server: https://discord.gg/ktsWT8Q Karl
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