A well-crafted simulation experience, SPORE is well worth your time.
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Verdict
93%
Steam
82
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (93% positive from 71K reviews)
Healthy player count of 895 concurrent
Critically acclaimed (82/100 critic average)
Rich open world to explore
No significant drawbacks reported
From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations. Play through Spore's five evolutionary stages: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Each stage has its own unique style, challenges, and goals.
Runs well on modern hardware.
Updated 3h ago
I love spore. I've played spore pretty much my whole life. I used to only have the pirated version, however, I decided to buy the game to access the community content. Accessing the community content is impossible. You need an EA and a Spore account, you need to link BOTH to your Steam account, and then you need to go through customer support hell, being treated like a criminal all the while, just to be able to access the community servers for a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 20-year-old game. I don't know about you, but I'm not going to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ do that. I'd much rather uninstall the game, get a refund, and keep playing the pirated version--ALONE--because at least then I can use the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ DLC without having to cough up 30 dollars for it.
Great game, especially for its time. Even now it's a great game. Great game all around. Great game.
SPORE is absolutely brilliant and promised the world.... The game's premise is absurd: you create a cell and follow its evolution until it becomes a space empire (or in this case, a society, like our human society). Speaking of phases, starting with Cell Phase: A "biological Pac-Man," you eat, grow, and escape from larger amoebas. Creature Phase: Starting with a creature editor, which is one of the best things ever made in games. You can create a perfect predator or a bizarre creature with wings on its head and a mouth on its butt... TOTAL freedom! Tribal and Civilization Phase: Now turning into a very simple strategy game (RTS)... you dominate your planet with diplomacy, religion, or pure violence. Space Phase: Here it really begins, a giant universe to explore, colonize, and trade. The only problem is that you become a kind of space babysitter, because every time one of your planets is being invaded or suffering a disaster. Positive points: Infinite creativity, pure nostalgia, a living universe! Negative points: Strategy phases are somewhat shallow, the space phase gets tiring after many hours due to micromanagement, and the REALLY BORING part... can cause random crashes on modern PCs (SAVE the game AT ALL COSTS ALWAYS!) To this day, no other game has managed to replicate what SPORE has done so far, it's well worth it on a good sale! Before I give the final score... you can even create a creature shaped like a penis, ready-made jokes there. Score: 8.5/10
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