🧬 DNA-AND 🌌

One spark. One planet. One galaxy. Every gene fighting to live.

⬇️ DOWNLOAD THE LATEST RELEASE  ·  Unity AI Lab Git

Get it in one minute. The current release is 0.1.0, the universe preview: the universe of DNA-AND before any life is in it. Download DNA-AND-Setup-0.1.0.exe (0.7 MB) and run it, or the zip to unpack anywhere and run DNA-AND.exe. The same two files are on Unity AI Lab Git. Needs Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a Direct3D 12 graphics card; installed it is under 2 MB. On Linux, take the zip and run the script inside it, through Wine: On Linux. What you get now: one continuous zoom from the cosmic web of 100 billion galaxies down to the quarks inside a grain of sand, a guided tour (press T), and a card on everything you click. The life, the genes and the god powers below are what the game grows into.

🔞 18+  ·  🪟 Windows 10 | 11  ·  🎮 Single · Co-op · Multiplayer (up to 8)  ·  🛠️ 100% built from scratch

🖼️ Wide banner: a living blue planet, a strand of DNA curling into a spiral galaxy, a Dyson sphere glowing behind it — rendered by the game's own 3D generator

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🌑 In the beginning, there's nothing

A dead rock. A young star. Lightning in a poisoned sky.

You are its god.

Strike the shallow seas with lightning and the first chemistry stirs. Warm them, feed them the right elements, and something copies itself. That's life. It's yours, and it won't do what you tell it.

Because every living thing in DNA-AND carries a real genome, and every gene in it is selfish. Microbes swarm, viruses steal genes, fish crawl onto land, wolves form packs, packs form hordes. One day the hordes start to think. They build fires, then cities, then rockets, then a shell of machines around their star.

And somewhere along the way, they start to wonder who you are.

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🧭 The journey

The grand tour, as the game records it: from the cosmic web into a galaxy, past its stars, to a comet, down to a world, its ground and the face of one grain.

🔭 One camera, every scale. There are no separate views to switch between. The same camera flies from among the galaxies into one, through its hundred billion stars (made around you as you go), into a star's solar system, down to a planet's ground and on into its matter: grains, the crystal of its mineral, then its atoms. Point the mouse and roll the wheel; it flies toward what you point at, at any angle, and slows by itself as things come close. A scale on screen shows how big things are, from billions of light-years down past the quarks: the zoom in has no floor.

	Era	What happens
🌑	The dead world	You shape a lifeless planet with heat, cold, water and lightning. Everything else is unlocked by the life that evolves
✨	The spark	Your first action starts life. It never starts without you
🦠	The microbes	Cells, viruses and the first wars, fought with chemistry
🐟	The seas	Shells, spines, eyes and jaws. Schools and reefs
🌿	The land	Plants, insects, then animals crawl out of the water
🐺	The packs	Everything groups up: packs, herds, flocks, hives, hordes
🧠	The minds	Any species can wake up: apes, wolves, crows, octopuses, bees
🏛️	The civilizations	100 ages of history: tribes, kingdoms, empires, nations, wars
🚀	The stars	Colonies, space stations, other planets and solar systems
☀️	The sphere	A Dyson sphere wrapped around a star
🌌	The galaxies	Galactic minds, intergalactic war, life across the universe

⏱️ A typical game reaches the space age in about 4–6 hours. Then it never ends, until you start a new world and galaxy.

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📸 A look inside

Straight from the game, drawn live by its own generators. It all joins up into one zoom, from the cosmic web of galaxies down to the microbes in the soil, and on into the matter to the quarks:

🪐 Every world is different. Earth-like, ocean, desert, lava, snowball, tidally locked, and giants with rings and storms.	🔎 Zoom all the way down. From orbit to standing on the ground, and on down to the size of a microbe.
🏔️ Real land. Seas, coasts, soil, rock and snow, rough at every size.	🌀 Giants with weather. Wind-curled bands, storms and high clouds you can fly down into.
🏭 Dyson spheres. A metal megastructure wrapped around a whole star.	🌄 A world inside out. Go inside: land, seas and mountains on the inner surface, the star overhead.
⭐ Living stars. Boiling plasma, spots and coronas, from red dwarfs to pulsars.	🌌 Whole galaxies. Click one and fly into it, down to a single star's planets.

🔭 The universe preview, as it is now. Frames from the grand tour, as the game records it, from the cosmic web to the quarks:

Among the stars of a galaxy	The cosmic web	A gas giant from its belt
A comet near its star	A temperate world	On the ground
Inside a crystal	A nucleus	The quarks

Still to come:

🖼️ The first cells in a volcanic pool 🦠 The spark. The first living thing in a dead universe. You made it.	🖼️ Top-down god view of a continent ⚡ God mode. Fire, flood, plague, miracle. Choose what to give, and what to take.
🖼️ A wolf horde above a wolf-folk village 🐺 All things flock. The wolves you watched hunting a million years ago are building villages now.	🖼️ The circular Tree of Life 🌳 Every species, ever. Every ancestor and every gene line, on one living circle.
🖼️ A city in the shadow of a volcano 🏛️ Civilization. They'll build, pray, fight, and notice you. A volcano on a city pays a lot of souls.	🖼️ A Dyson sphere under construction ☀️ The endgame. They've learned to wrap a star. Next comes the rest of the galaxy.

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🌌 A universe in full

🌀 Galaxies	Spirals, barred spirals, ellipticals, rings, starbursts, green peas, jellyfish galaxies, grouped into clusters, filaments and voids
⭐ Stars	Every real type, from red dwarfs to blue hypergiants, brown dwarfs, carbon stars, white dwarfs, pulsars and magnetars, each with what it is made of; supernovae of every real kind, a neutron star, black hole or magnetar born at each
⚫ Black holes and quasars	Stellar to ultramassive, spinning black holes, accretion disks and jets, quasars, blazars and Seyfert galaxies; the fall through the horizon to the singularity, down the gravity well itself, Flamm's surface as a grid round you
🌫️ Nebulas	Star nurseries, pillars, dark clouds, planetary nebulas and supernova remnants
🪐 Worlds	Lava worlds, ocean worlds, super-Earths, mini-Neptunes, hot Jupiters, ice giants, rogue planets
🌙 Moons	Volcanic moons, ice-shell ocean moons with geysers, moons with thick air and hydrocarbon lakes
☄️ Small bodies	Asteroids by makeup, comets and their tails, dwarf planets, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud, meteorites, each its own size and shape, with its real minerals and elements down to the traces, landed on as a world and zoomed into to its quarks

👉 The Deep Sky · Worlds & Moons

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🧬 Every kingdom of life

Viruses · bacteria · archaea · protists · fungi · plants · animals, each traced down through phylum, class, order, family, genus and species.

🦠 The tiny	All seven virus groups, bacteria that swap genes and build stromatolites, archaea that live in boiling acid
🍄 The hidden	Fungal networks linking forests, lichens on bare rock, body-snatching fungi
🌿 The green	Mosses to conifers to flowering plants, desert and hot-climate photosynthesis, carnivorous plants
🐾 The animals	Every major phylum, from sponges to chordates; insects, birds and mammals order by order
🧠 The minds	Crows, octopuses, dolphins, elephants and hives show how a mind can rise in any kingdom

🦖 Lost worlds

The Big Five mass extinctions, dinosaurs of every kind (and birds, the ones that survived), pterosaurs, sea reptiles, trilobites, giant insects, mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Your worlds can evolve their like again.

👉 Life's Kingdoms · Lost Worlds

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⛏️ Built and mined

⛏️ Riches of the land	Real ore deposits made by magma, hot water, seas and weather. Coal, oil and gas only exist where life lived first
🏙️ Cities	Camps to planet-cities, organic to grid to radial layouts, built in each species' own image
🚀 Space tech	Dyson swarms, bubbles and shells, Matrioshka brains, stellar engines, O'Neill cylinders, fusion and antimatter drives, hyperdrives

👉 Riches of the Land · Cities

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🧬 Real DNA in every living thing

Every creature, plant, microbe and virus carries a real-style genome: strings of A, C, G and T that build its body and drive its behavior.

🗺️ The gene map	See which genes give which traits and skills, from breathing air to walking upright to photosynthesis
🔁 Evolution	Mutation, breeding with and without sex, viruses carrying genes between species
🌱 New species	When a group's genes drift far enough apart, it splits in two. Nobody scripts it
✋ Hands off	You can't edit DNA directly. You can only push: radiation, pressure, plagues, gene powers with good and bad outcomes

👉 Genes & DNA · 100 Stages of Life · Ecology

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🐺 All things flock together

Wolf → pack → horde → thinking pack → humanoid wolf-folk → tribe → village → town → city → the stars.

Every kind of life climbs the same 100-step grouping ladder, from one lone creature to life that spans the universe. Each takes its own road there:

	Their climb
🐝	Bee → swarm → hive → supercolony → hive mind → insect civilization
🐟	Fish → school → shoal → reef cities → ocean civilization
🐦	Bird → flock → roost-city → sky civilization
🌳	Seedling → grove → forest → root network → a forest that thinks
🦠	Cell → colony → mat → reef → living superorganism

What they build looks like them: insect species build insect cities and fly insect spaceships. Every city, ship and station is generated from the species that builds it.

Species mix like real life: they team up, tame, farm, parasitize, conquer, enslave and merge.

👉 Groups & Flocking

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🧠 Minds inside minds

Every living thing runs its own mini AI, driven by the selfish gene: get more, do more, and pass your genes on before you die. And death always comes.

Layer	Who
🧪 Chemistry	Viruses, bacteria, plants. Sense, then respond. Real bacteria "vote" before they attack
🐾 Individual	Anything with a nervous system
🐺 Group	Packs, flocks, schools, colonies
🐝 Hive	Hives and supercolonies
🧬 Species	Thinking species
🌌 Galactic mind	One will across a whole galaxy

Bigger minds steer smaller ones. But genes are selfish, so members rebel, cheat and split off when it pays. Each layer only appears when evolution builds it.

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🌳 The Tree of Life

Every species that ever lived, on one circular tree: your first cell at the center, the living species around the rim, and the extinct ones greyed out forever.

• 👪 A family tree of who came from whom, and a 🧬 gene tree of where every gene came from
• 🔃 Sort by planet, solar system or galaxy
• 🪜 Every rank, from domain to species, is tracked 100 deep: real ones, plus new ones your world invents

👉 Tree of Life

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🏛️ Civilizations that rise, and fall

📜 100 ages	From the first stone tool to intergalactic. On Earth they follow real history. Other worlds can take their own order
🌳 The tech tree	100 branches in 10 families that feed each other. Metal feeds war, war feeds rockets, rockets feed space
🗳️ 100 kinds of society	How they rule, trade, live together, believe and keep order, from bands to galactic law
💀 100 ways to self-destruct	Nuclear winter, rogue machines, grey goo, engineered plague. Collapse can throw them back ages
🤏 100 ways to nudge	You never pick their next discovery. You raise prophets, send omens, start wars and end famines. They choose

👉 Ages of Civilization · Tech Tree · Society · Nudges

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⚡ The god's toolkit

100 powers, Populous with a genetic twist. Every one has a use, a plus and a minus.

🌑 Day one	Lightning, heat, cold and water. Nothing else until life unlocks it
⚗️ Elements	Each element unlocks once living things on your world first use it: the chemistry of life first, metals later, lab-made elements when a civilization makes them
🔓 100 unlock points	Each of the 100 stages of life unlocks its own power. Nothing is missing, nothing doubled
🌋 Examples	Fire, flood, drought, volcano, plague, cure, miracle, prophet, stellar flare, supernova, wormhole
🧬 Gene powers	Radiation bursts, viral gene carry, spark of mind. Good outcomes and bad
🏷️ 100 tiers	Every power is ranked T1 (weakest) to T100 (strongest). The top 20 have cooldowns

👉 100 God Powers

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👻 Souls: the price of being a god

Powers cost Souls. Cost = the power's tier (T1–T100) × area × strength.

🌱 Life gives	Living things slowly give off souls. More life, more souls
🩸 Death pays	Intelligent deaths give the most. A volcano going off under a city pays a fortune
🖐️ Harvesting	You can reap souls by hand, but it's slow, it glows, and if intelligent life sees it they panic
🏭 They harvest for you	100 harvest steps, one per age, from the first hunt to the intergalactic harvest
🩸 The Dark Harvest	🔞 100 cruel methods: driven-mad beasts, plagues made to kill better, birth laws, death cults, slave plantations, gene wars, killer machines, and world grinders that eat planets like lawns

👉 Souls & Harvesting · The Dark Harvest

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🌌 A universe to fill

⚛️ Real physics	Gravity, electromagnetism and both nuclear forces, molten cores, plate tectonics, magnetic fields and atmospheres. See Forces of Nature
🌍 Earth first	A whole Earth: rock, plates, oceans, weather, seasons, chemistry, all 118 elements
🔓 100 planet templates	Unlock ocean worlds, desert worlds, ice worlds, volcanic worlds, gas-giant moons and more
✨ Stars → systems → galaxies	Generated from a seed: Small (100 systems), Medium (500), Large (2,000) or Massive (10,000), every one fully alive
🚀 Spread	Life only reaches other planets when intelligent life carries it there
☄️ 100 space objects	Oort clouds, comets, asteroid belts, nebulas, moons, black holes. Comets and meteorites really hit planets
🌡️ Every kind of world	10 conditions × 10 levels (temperature, gravity, air, radiation…), each needing its own tech to settle
🛸 100-step travel ladder	From the first rocket to hyperdrives and galaxy-to-galaxy travel
🏘️ 100 kinds of colony	Mining outposts, prison colonies, farm worlds, fortress moons, capitals, plus 100 space resources
☀️ Dyson spheres	Then intergalactic war

👉 Planets & Templates · Space & Dyson Spheres

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🖥️ A HUD that stays out of the way

🌍 The world is the screen	A slim header and an action bar. Everything else opens with a click and drags wherever you like
🔝 Header	Settings, wiki, souls, life, harvested, score, time and date
🎛️ Your action bar	WoW-style: drag any power, tool or brush onto it
⚗️ Element tree	The whole periodic table, ready to paint into the world
🖌️ Painter brushes	Paint elements, water, heat, cold, genes, powers and harvests. Bigger brushes unlock as life spreads

👉 The HUD

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⏱️ Time bends for you

⏸️ Pause + 5 speeds	1×, 10×, 100×, 1,000× and max. See Time
🏁 10,000 milestones	100 in every stage (Milestones). Each stage's big one (first walk, first fire, first farm, first rocket) drops time to 1× and you watch it happen
⚖️ Balanced	Billions of years fly by early, and history slows to decades late

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👥 Play together · 🏆 Leave your mark

🤝 Co-op and multiplayer	Up to 8 gods in one world. The host shares a join code, and you see each other's cursors
🏆 Leaderboard	Your score = life in your galaxy + life harvested
🏅 Genome of the Week	The weekly top three upload a genome to the Genebank
☄️ Meteorites	Pull a Genebank genome into your world. It lands by meteorite, in your oceans or on your land

👉 Multiplayer · Leaderboard & Genebank

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🔢 By the numbers

100	stages of life	100	ages of civilization
100	god powers	100	grouping steps
100	planet templates	118	elements
10,000	encyclopedia entries (100 × 100), invented fresh each world	6	layers of mind
10,000	milestones (100 per stage)	100	tech branches
100	kinds of society	100	ways to nudge
100	Dark Harvest methods	100	ways to earn souls
100	power tiers (T1–T100)	100	ways civilizations end
1,000+	researched real-world seeds for the generators	6 + 1	kingdoms of life, plus viruses
5	great mass extinctions	3	domains of life
8	players per world	∞	how long a galaxy lasts

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⬇️ Install

1	Grab DNA-AND-Setup.exe from Unity AI Lab Git or GitHub. Same file
2	Run it. If Windows asks to allow changes, click Yes
3	Pick a folder, or keep the default, and click Install
4	Launch DNA-AND and press New World

You need	Minimum	Recommended
🪟	Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit	Windows 11, 64-bit
🧠	4-core CPU	8+ cores
💾	8 GB RAM	16 GB RAM
🎨	Direct3D 12 card, 4 GB	Direct3D 12 card, 8 GB
🌐	Internet only for the leaderboard, Genebank and online play

🔄 Update or remove

Do this	It does
Run a newer setup	Updates the game. Your saves stay
Uninstall in Windows	Removes the game, and asks whether your saves go too

📖 Full guide: Setup

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🎮 Keys

Key
W A S D / Q E	Fly forward, back, left, right, down and up, at a speed scaled to the nearest thing (Shift: four times as fast)
Scroll wheel	Zoom where the mouse points, from the cosmic web of galaxies and the supermassive black holes at their hearts down to the quarks
Ctrl + Scroll wheel	Zoom eight times as fast
Left-drag	Circle round what you picked, or look around
Left-click	Use the selected power, or pick a galaxy, star, planet, spot, grain or atom to go to
Right-click	Let go of what you picked
Space	Pause
, . / 1 – 5	Time slower and faster / time speeds
H	Scale bar and information cards
F1	In-game wiki
Esc	Menu: save, load, settings, quit

Every key can be rebound. 👉 Controls

🔭 In the universe preview: it opens on a landing page (type a seed or leave it blank, Begin or take the tour). Then the scroll wheel flies toward what the mouse points at, Ctrl makes it eight times as fast, Left-drag looks around, H turns the scale on screen on or off, T plays the quarter-hour grand tour, F12 saves a screenshot and F9 records a clip (View > Clip size: auto, full, half or quarter of the screen), and the View and Help menus hold the settings, the Guide and wiki, and Credits. The universe preview is also released on its own as Universe (its own project: https://git.unityailab.com/GFourteen/Universe).

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🛠️ Build it yourself

DNA-AND uses no one else's code: no engine, no libraries, no outside packages. It's written in C# and built with the compiler that comes with Windows. And no pre-built art: every creature, plant, city, ship, station, planet and star is built live by the game itself, from its genes and data, the moment it comes to life. The build is just our code and what ships with Windows:

our own C# source → the C# compiler that ships with Windows → DNA-AND.exe → DNA-AND-Setup.exe

The only outside pieces are Windows itself (with its built-in C# compiler and runtime), your graphics card's driver, and the online leaderboard service, which plugs in as a swappable side car.

👉 How to Build · Builder Wiki

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📚 Everything else

🏠 Player Wiki	Start here: every system, explained
🌱 Getting Started	Your first world, your first hour
🗺️ Full Playthrough	One whole game, start to endgame
⚗️ Elements	The full periodic table, and what each element does
⚙️ Menus & Settings	Saving, settings and accessibility
📖 Glossary · ❓ FAQ · 💜 Credits	Every term, every question, everyone who made it

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🔞 DNA-AND is an 18+ game. Life here does everything real life does: sex, hunting, killing, war, conquest and murder.

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🤝 Credits

Made by the Unity AI Lab team · 🌐 https://unityailab.com

	Who	Role
🧠	GFourteen (Gee)	Co-founder · engineer · financial advisor
🛡️	SpongeBong (Sponge / hackall360)	Co-founder · engineer · ethical hacker · sys admin
🤖	Alfreddo	Engineer · agentic systems · researcher
🔐	Red	Engineer · security · sys admin

🔗 Unity AI Lab Git · Unity AI Lab on GitHub · This project on Git · This project on GitHub

Every gene wants to live. You decide which ones do.