Posted on: August 26, 2025

Plaid_Gloves

Jeux: 132 Avis: 7

A mile wide and an inch deep. Still fun.

Spore is an oddity. Despite being creatively original, mechanically unique, and immensely popular in its day, it somehow managed to escape being the inspiration for a thousand cash-grabbing copycats. This means that, nearly two decades later, Spore is still a one-of-a-kind classic that retains its novelty for any modern-day gamer just now deciding to give it a go. To start off, the scope of this game is absolutely, absurdly massive. I mean that thematically AND mechanically. Each savegame spans billions of years. Your perspective starts with a single-celled organism and gradually zooms out, so to speak, to encompass an entire galaxy. To illustrate this huge amount of time and evolution, the game actually *changes genres* no fewer than four times. And we're not splitting hairs here, either - the game literally goes from "flOw" to RPG to RTS to a hybrid space-trading god-sim. You will go from putting eyes on an ameoba to putting sails on a ship to putting genetically engineered lifeforms on any planet you wish. Just the fact that all of this is present in a single game is insane and beautiful. So why didn't its novelty and popularity spawn a host of lifeless Spore clones? Because it's not actually a very good game. Spore quickly becomes butter spread over too much bread. Each of its many states of being is a shallow gameplay experience that, because they are all only vaguely interrelated, fails to lend depth to any of the others. You will always come away from it feeling that something was missing - that perhaps you had just played a feature-stripped open beta. Then you remember that it was 2008, and this was just how it shipped. But with all of that said, there's still something wonderful about it. You need an imagination to fill in the gaps, but I enjoy that. Do try it out. You will either find it charming and come back to it every now and again (as I do), or you will be bored and never come back. Either way, it's a rarity you've got to experience at least once.

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Posted on: April 1, 2024

falconzinx

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Jeux: 11 Avis: 11

Disjointed ideas but still a of lot fun

An ambitious god simulator where you start as a creature and work your way up to conquering the center of the galaxy, i.e.: creature in water -> creature on land -> tribes -> cities -> space The creature stages are especially fun where you get to use an intuitive modeler to create limbs on a creature and the system will dynamically animate how they move. The creative parts become progressively meaningless in terms of how they affect gameplay as you move up the levels though. The tribal and city stages are basically Civilization/Starcraft clones, but are very basic and is over way too quickly. The space stages can get boring and/or tedious, but that's if you are forcing a certain playstyle. To me, its really about figuring out for yourself the most efficient and varied methods to find a balance between maximizing income, fulfilling the badge requirements, and having some fun to unlock things that helps beat the game. The interstellar travel, on-foot missions, space combat, and alliances with aliens kind of resemble Star Control 2 or Mass Effect. At some point, you do become a god in that you can create, tweak, uplift, and/or destroy all manner of life as well as terraform or destroy planets to your liking. Despite its shortcomings, its fun to get back to every now and then, and is definitely for those who like creating things.

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Posted on: December 20, 2016

hartmanbaker

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Jeux: 55 Avis: 1

One of the Best

I have loved this game since before it launched and I had the creature creator in my hands. After launch i spent hundreds of hours playing it. My son started playing it when he was three years old and he loves it to this day. I lost my disc after our last move but have been craving it and just had to get it again. Nothing beats the cartoony fun of raising the species from cell to space; changing the many parts; going herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore, designing buildings and ships... truly an awesome game for any age group.

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Posted on: September 4, 2018

threefeet

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Jeux: 74 Avis: 2

Surprisingly Very Good

For years I ignored this game, why I dunno. Maybe because of some of the many negative ratings it received. They were totally unfounded, this is one of the most fun unique casual strategy games you will ever find, and I've been playing strategy games since before video games were created. Make friends with your neighbor creatures that have an arm and foot growing out of their head and eyeballs on their butt. Or make your own creation grow with an arm and foot growing out of its head and eyeballs on its butt. Create what you want; but keep in mind, once you're advanced enough, you have to join the rest of the world. Be friends? Kill them all? Be a cannibal? You go from being a microbe to a land walker, evolving through time to become tribal w/ the opportunity to make friends or enemies, advancing your knowledge through the DLC to eventually get to space. Much like all the reviews I read before I got this game, I don't really give you anything to go on in describing this, just go to YT and watch The Sim Supply playthrough. And especially on a sale that includes all of the DLC for this price, you will be missing out if you don't grab this fun casual strategy gem.

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Posted on: June 6, 2020

MadDogCM

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Jeux: 1356 Avis: 5

at last I can play it again.

after Original & Steam version, at last I can play it again. after a lot of years GOG (for me God of Games) let me play this unique Game again. I like to try all kinds of evolves up to the galaxy god^^ I liked it and I still like the Game. only minus is EA EULA (for me Enemy of us All)

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