Bacteria: Life & Death

Feed: Move the mouse or your finger over the dish to move the food source
Power-ups: Click or tap them to activate
Environment: Use the buttons along the bottom for heat, cold and toxins
Watch: The population meter shows which way the colony is going
No timer: Nothing is being counted down

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Description

Bacteria: Life & Death gives you a dish with something alive in it. There is no score to chase and nothing chasing you — the whole game is moving a food source around, adjusting the temperature, and seeing what the colony does about it.

It stays interesting because the colony is genuinely fragile in both directions. Starve it and it thins out; feed it too well and it outgrows what the dish can support. Heat, cold and toxins each break it differently, and the population meter is the only thing telling you which way things are going.

Every stage adds a complication rather than a difficulty — viruses, mutations, temperature swings, a chemical spill — so the thing you learned to manage last time becomes one of several happening at once.

The pace is deliberately slow, and that is the point: no rush, no failure screen waiting, just a colony doing better or worse than it was a minute ago. It is a game to leave open in a tab.