# Homeostasis — Pilot a living cell!

> Pilot a living cell! (iPhone/iPad app by Alex Sheridan.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/homeostasis/id6777075093 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Alex Sheridan](https://appshunter.io/developer/1894946686)
- Category: Games, Simulation, Strategy
- Price: $2.99 (on sale, was $6.99)
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 12 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-06-07
- Data updated: 2026-07-06
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/homeostasis/id6777075093/reviews.md

## What is Homeostasis?

You are the operator of a single living cell — and everything is going wrong at once. Energy is crashing, a virus is hijacking your factories, corrosive rust is eating the engines, and the folding line is jammed. Fix one and another spikes. That tension is the game.

Homeostasis is a portrait roguelike about holding a coupled, living machine in balance. Route your workers, fire emergency programs, queue production, power up the organelles that matter — and read the cell, because every crisis wants a different response. Stabilize the chaos, survive the cycle, then choose a mutation and do it again, harder.

Death is the point. Each run goes deeper than the last.

PILOT A LIVING CELL
Seven organelles, six vital signs, all coupled. Mitochondria make energy but leak rust. Ribosomes build what you need but flood the folding line. Power the nucleus to auto-repair your weakest system. There's no single right answer — only trade-offs.

SURVIVE ESCALATING, ENDLESS CRISES
Viral takeovers, heat shock, starvation, oxidative stress, membrane breaches, DNA damage — telegraphed, then unleashed. Difficulty rises to a brutal climax, then settles into a sustainable plateau you can ride as far as your skill takes you.

THREE WAYS TO PLAY
• Real-Time — high-pressure, the clock never stops.
• Tactical — auto-pauses each crisis so you can plan, then act.
• Triage — turn-based rescue puzzles: stabilize a failing cell in as few moves as you can.

EVOLVE & CRAFT YOUR BUILD
Spend DNA in The Lab on gene-trait loadouts and one-shot field items — then anchor a run around a keystone that changes how you play: devour the virus for fuel, freeze time mid-crisis, sacrifice an organelle for a surge, win by ascending instead of surviving, or program your cell with standing rules and fight your own autopilot.

COME BACK TOMORROW
A new Daily Challenge every day, a ladder of in-game challenges to chase, Game Center leaderboards and achievements, and a one-tap shareable card for your best run.

No ads. No in-app purchases. Just you, one cell, and the long fight against entropy.

Can you keep it alive?


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-06-16

Added post-run coaching, clearer indicators of how to survive and easy mode.

### 1.0 — 2026-06-07

No release notes.

## More apps by Alex Sheridan

- [AriCore](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aricore/id6762657133)
- [AriRoam](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ariroam/id6771599446)

All apps by Alex Sheridan: https://appshunter.io/developer/1894946686

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