I’m gonna necro this thread for a bit.
One of my many ideas for games include a concept of a Thrive fan game (yes i was thinking about making a Thrive fan game before the microbe stage was fully released) called “Thrive Tower Defense”. It’s a standard tower defense game similar to Bloons Tower Defense, but you could edit your towers.
You would start off with a prokaryotic cell that has rather short range and a small attack, which costs 50 evo points (you earn one evo point every time you hurt an enemy) and you have a remaining 650 evo points to add more cells or edit them. If you added a nucleus it would be more expensive but it’s attacks would be exponentially better. Each time you make a substantial edit to your cell, it will become its own troop separate from the others. Eventually, you would go from a cell to a spaceship, but it would take some time.
There would have been fifty rounds but you could go on forever if you wanted to do free play. I planned it to be a free fan game.