# Primordia Lab — From atoms to civilizations

> From atoms to civilizations (iPhone/iPad app by Unified Health Systems Consulting LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/primordia-lab/id6792397972 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Unified Health Systems Consulting LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6792397974)
- Category: Games, Education, Simulation, Strategy
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 30 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-15
- Data updated: 2026-09-18
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/primordia-lab/id6792397972/reviews.md

## What is Primordia Lab?

Primordia Lab is a physics sandbox where you start with a handful of atoms and end up somewhere no one expects.

Paint elements into a living, simulated world. Water flows, fire spreads, metals melt, storms rain, and every pixel obeys the same rules. Mix substances to discover new ones, log your findings in the journal, and spend your earnings on new tools for the lab.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

- A real falling-sand simulation: heat, pressure, electricity, magnetism, and gravity all interact
- Discovery-driven progression: combine what you have to reveal what comes next
- An idle economy that keeps working while you are away
- Research programs, blueprints, and a technology tree that unlock deeper systems
- Trials: hand-built scenario challenges that test what you have learned
- Scenes: save your worlds and explore prebuilt dioramas
- A long arc of ages that starts with chemistry and goes much further than you think

BUILD REAL CIRCUITS

Wire batteries, switches, motors, and lamps into working DC circuits. Voltage, current, and resistance behave like the real thing, so the electrical bench is a little physics lesson in disguise.

CAUSE ABSOLUTE HAVOC

Drop a meteor. Light a wildfire. Place a black hole and watch it eat your whole world.

LEARN AS YOU PLAY

Long-press anything to read its real history and science in the Info panel.

Primordia Lab is free to play. Optional purchases support development, and every ad is opt-in.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Second Researcher | $3.99 | one-time |
| 20 Citations | $0.99 | one-time |
| 150 Citations | $4.99 | one-time |
| 550 Citations | $9.99 | one-time |
| Grant Funding | $4.99 | one-time |
| Golden Atom Avatar | $0.99 | one-time |
| Singularity Avatar | $1.99 | one-time |
| Founder Avatar | $2.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-17

Thank you for the reports and the reviews. This update fixes the things you found and adds a few you asked for.

FIXED
- Fourteen elements the periodic table lights in the opening act (sulfur, zinc, tin, lead and more) could not be bought until a much later age, and every recipe that needed them waited with them. They are for sale the moment they light.
- Four recipes (the benzene ring, chloroform, the lens and the prism) were offered long before their ingredients could be made. They now appear when they can be done.
- The dawn of life arrived a little too slowly once you had stocked a full shelf. The gate is lower.
- Graphics quality on Automatic could get stuck on Low and never recover. It steps back up once the device holds its frame rate.
- A purchase can no longer be credited twice, and a refunded purchase is removed from the game.
- Discovery cards, the notebook and the goal list only name rewards your current age can stock or build.

NEW
- Today's Citation can be claimed straight from the Earth face, next to the daily bonus.
- The game lets you know when a newer version is on the App Store.
- Report a Problem now includes the details of the last crash, so a report can be acted on the same day.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-17

Thank you for playing Primordia Lab in its first week. This update takes care of the things you told us about.

FIXED
- The Advancements map holds still. Buying a link or revealing a new one no longer moves anything you had already found.
- Discovery cards, the notebook and the goal list only name rewards your current age can stock or build. No more burners, coolers, walls or batteries promised ages early.
- The Generators screen shows each generator's true output, including every boost you have bought.
- The Friends leaderboard fills the whole screen.
- Brush sizes past nine read cleanly beside the slider.
- The Quality setting is easier to tap: the whole row opens the menu.
- Players without Game Center no longer appear on the leaderboard more than once.

CHANGED
- The rating prompt waits until your twentieth goal.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-16

No release notes.

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