SimEarth on SNES is like SimCity’s weird, ambitious cousin—instead of zoning neighborhoods, you’re juggling an entire planet’s evolution. You start with a barren rock and tweak everything from temperature to tectonic plates, hoping something crawls out of the primordial soup. I remember dumping way too much oxygen into the atmosphere early on and accidentally cooking my first batch of proto-life. Oops.

It’s slower and way more abstract than most sim games, but there’s something hypnotic about nudging a planet from single-celled goop to spacefaring civilizations. The interface is clunky by today’s standards, and good luck figuring out half the systems without the manual, but when you finally get dinosaurs or sentient mushrooms thriving? Weirdly satisfying. Just don’t expect it to hold your hand.