BioEden Game Guide & Wiki

What is the BioEden game?

The BioEden game is a cozy management game about ecological restoration, released on 3 September 2026 by Broken Arms Games and Focus Entertainment. You play a Keeper working for the Cosmic Collective, sent to a planet that has been stripped bare by an event the game calls the Great Unraveling. Your job is not to conquer that planet. It is to slowly bring it back: purify the water, recycle the debris of whatever civilisation was here before, build sealed domes with controlled climates, and use banked DNA to hatch animal species that went extinct.

The BioEden game sits in the same shelf as Terra Nil and Dorfromantik rather than Frostpunk. There are no enemies, no combat, no timers and no score. Every building you place can be recycled for a full refund, which means the game is almost impossible to lose by accident. What the marketing does not always mention — and what this BioEden wiki covers in detail — is that the planet does push back. Let your Impact Level and regional pollution climb far enough and the Collective imposes Active Regulations on you, and a red Crisis Alert appears. It is a gentle game, but it is a game with opinions.

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The BioEden game core loop in 60 seconds

Almost everything in the BioEden game is a variation on this eight-step loop. Learn it once and the rest of the game is detail.

1. Survey the hex grid. Walk your Keeper across the tiles outside and look for debris sites — the rusted leftovers that seed your whole economy.
2. Recycle debris into resources. Salvage first, build second. Building before you have surveyed is the single most common opening mistake in BioEden.
3. Raise one power source and one water source. A solar pylon and a water distributor, connected by the shortest cable and pipe runs you can manage.
4. Place a dome and an Incubator inside it. The Incubator is where a banked genome becomes a living animal.
5. Spend DNA in the Bestiary. Species are grouped by biome — Forest, Jungle, Prairie, Savannah and Tundra — and each costs a fixed number of DNA fragments.
6. Match the climate to the species. Every BioEden animal wants a temperature band, a humidity band, specific plants and enough decoration. Landowl, the tutorial bird, wants 20–45°, 55–90% humidity and two Ferns.
7. Push each animal through its three stages. Biome, then Residency, then Mating. The Bestiary shows all three as separate tabs with separate requirement lists.
8. Watch pollution and Impact Level. The globe in the HUD shows the pollution percentage of the region you are looking at. Orb Factories in particular are pollution engines.

Start here if you are new to the BioEden game

• BioEden beginner guideWhat to build in your first hour, the opening build order, and the six mistakes that cost new Keepers the most time.
• Which guild should you pick?All five BioEden guilds compared. Euler is the forgiving pick; Xylar will punish a first campaign.
• Perfect environment explainedHow Biome, Residency and Mating actually differ, and what “Perfect” adds on top.
• How to build a second domeThe most-asked BioEden question on Steam. Here is the prerequisite chain nobody explains in the tutorial.

Full BioEden guide index

Gameplay guides

• BioEden beginner guide — what to build first
• How to build a second dome in BioEden
• Power and water: cables, pipes and layout
• Pollution, Impact Level, Active Regulations and Crisis Alerts
• The Biome Knowledge Tree and research priority
• Collective Requests and Trust Level
• Every BioEden resource and what it is for
• Controls and keybinds on PC and controller
• How long is BioEden and what is the endgame?

Animals and biomes

• All BioEden animals, DNA costs and requirements
• DNA fragments and the Bestiary
• Perfect environment: temperature and humidity
• Carnivores vs herbivores: can they share a dome?
• Residency requirements explained
• Mating and breeding guide
• Landowl: the tutorial species
• All five BioEden biomes
• Temperature and humidity chart
• Mixed-biome domes and climate wedges

Buildings and guilds

• Every BioEden building and what it costs
• Carnivore Feeder: where to find it
• Incubator guide
• All five BioEden guilds
• Best guild to pick in BioEden

Platforms, buying and fixes

• BioEden release date and unlock times
• PC system requirements
• BioEden on Nintendo Switch 2
• BioEden on PS5
• BioEden on Xbox Series X|S
• Is BioEden worth it? Review and verdict
• BioEden demo: length, saves and what is included
• Fixes: black screen, feeder not registering, stuck in a dome

Why this BioEden wiki exists

Most of what was written about the BioEden game before launch was recycled from the same press release. This site is built the other way around: from the questions players are actually asking. The Carnivore Feeder has its own page because “where is the Carnivore Feeder” is one of the most common BioEden game searches and one of the most active threads on the official Steam forum. The black screen fix has its own page because four different players reported the same intro cutscene bug. The animal database lists DNA costs because those numbers are visible in official screenshots and nobody had transcribed them.

Where a number comes from an official source, we say so. Where something is still unconfirmed — console performance, Steam Deck verification, DLC plans — we say that too, instead of guessing. If you spot something wrong, tell us and it gets fixed.