BioEden launches with a solarpunk mission to restore a barren planet

Broken Arms Games and Focus Entertainment have launched BioEden, a solarpunk management game about dragging a battered planet back from the brink. It is available today on Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 — so the apocalypse has, at least, got decent platform coverage.

Players take the role of a Keeper, an environmental specialist working for the Cosmic Collective. The job is to design and nurture interconnected ecological domes, balance resources and build progression trees while slowly turning wasteland into a living ecosystem.

The restoration loop revolves around wildlife as much as landscaping. You gather DNA samples, create the conditions individual animals need and release them into the wild once their habitats are ready. The announcement describes dozens of species, each with its own requirements, alongside exploration and a mystery surrounding the Great Unraveling.

Broken Arms Games, the Italian independent studio behind Hundred Days – Winemaking Simulator and Under Par Golf Architect, is positioning BioEden as a soothing management experience rather than another grim survival slog. Its colourful solarpunk setting and emphasis on self-sustaining habitats suggest something closer to ecological gardening at planetary scale than putting out fires until bedtime.

The release is published by Focus Entertainment Publishing. The launch announcement confirms the four platforms above and describes BioEden as a management, indie and casual game. It does not state a launch price in the supplied release, so there is no invented bargain figure here — a novelty in games PR.

The pitch is unusually appealing because restoration is the point, not merely the backdrop. If the systems make each habitat feel meaningfully interdependent, BioEden could turn climate anxiety into a satisfying checklist of small victories. If it reduces to placing pretty domes until the numbers go green, the solarpunk promise will be doing rather more work than the simulation.

Source: Focus Entertainment / Broken Arms Games press release supplied to iHeartGeek, Sept. 3, 2026.