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SPORE™
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
88 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Made small ugly creature, evolved into uglier creature, fought uglies in ugly tribal wars, waged ugly war across ugly civilization, entered my uglieness into the stars and found myself the most beautiful thing there.…”
“Spore is a very expansive game with unlimited possibility”
“very fun, I had to force myself off the game because I literally played for 8 hours straight. if you like the concept of creating your own creatures and watching them evolve, then this game is for you.”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Spore is a very expansive game with unlimited possibility”
“used to play spore creatures on ds as a kid never knew the rest of the game existed for like 20 years 50/10 (+10 per extra stage)”
“very good even without an ea account story: monkey eat monkey learn boom bap now your in space content: inf bob Would not reccomend cuz i do not reccomend stuff usally but if i did then would reccomend jerry stop”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Spore is one of those games that still feels unique even today. Few titles have ever attempted something this ambitious: letting players guide a species from microscopic organism to intergalactic civilization, all while…”
“A very fun game about evolution, and you can always start again. You can find other peoples creations in the game aswell. This game also works for any computer, a potato could run this. I recommend this game, 8.5/10.”
“Ive played in 2019, i just got back on in 2026, this game is still adicting, i have 520 hours on this game alone”
13 of the 103 reviews raise this · 12 of them still recommend the game.
“Spore is one of those games that still feels unique even today. Few titles have ever attempted something this ambitious: letting players guide a species from microscopic organism to intergalactic civilization, all while…”
“Its super fun but it gets boring fast I like it its cool but its a story mode and not a survival mode.”
“♥♥♥♥!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the game is fun until you get to the halfway section when u gotta manage a tribe and it turns into the worst rpg genre ever invented, idk if it'll ever finish it”
13 of the 103 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“For some reason you're not allowed to play online with this version. which sucks because that's why I bought it. Another EA L. The game itself is fine but EA is garbage. It also doesn't function properly on the Steam…”
“completely unplayable they should have to pay everyone back. saves don't work you have to start over every time you log on. support page is going to cause a seizure , need loads just flashes. how can a company even sell…”
“need to manually save and the game can crash idk if its just for me but its very fun”
10 of the 103 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“completely unplayable they should have to pay everyone back. saves don't work you have to start over every time you log on. support page is going to cause a seizure , need loads just flashes. how can a company even sell…”
“need to manually save and the game can crash idk if its just for me but its very fun”
“Still a good game 20 something year after it came out, graphic a bit outdated, but what did you expect, it's a great game pretty much right up until you hit the grind of the space age.”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“So I actually love the game spore. My family owned it on CD back when it released. I've played hundreds of hours, and the game itself is fabulous. The problem lies with that the family CD was registered to an EA account…”
“I recieved this as a gift due to playing a pirated copy when I was much younger. The game on steam will never allow you to register with the spore website unless you pull out more money and buy the 'Creature creator" on…”
“im having issue logging in on the game but can log in on the website.”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Its super fun but it gets boring fast I like it its cool but its a story mode and not a survival mode.”
“its nice n shi gets a lil boring sometimes doe typeshi”
“I'm very nostalgic for this game, but I can't say it's worth getting into now. Even nearly 20 years on the creature creator is fun but the game kept crashing at points and for some reason will not save my monitor…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 92.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“Best game of all time that EA has ever owned, sure the bar is low but this game goes above and beyond, yet, its their least worked on game i play! I would DIE for spore 2, but im going to rate and say why for each stage, starting from my least favorite 5. Space Overdone, I think…”
— a player, Steam review · 29 hrs played“The game is pretty old now but it is a great time waster. I wish they would do something else with this IP because there was nothing really like it when it released and it still is an awesome idea.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“This game has given 18 years of awesome to the world and its still going good, amazing game”
— a player, Steam review · 71 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:43 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Games like SPORE™
From our knowledge graph — ranked by shared traits, not a black box. Each card says why it's here.
The Universim
79.7% · 6,431 reviews
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SPORE™ Creepy & Cute Parts Pack
89.7% · 1,333 reviews
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SPORE™ Galactic Adventures
90.9% · 4,274 reviews
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Little Kitty, Big City
96.9% · 8,336 reviews
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Goat Simulator 3
97.6% · 6,372 reviews
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Goat Simulator: Remastered
86.5% · 526 reviews
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Universe Sandbox
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Kerbal Space Program
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, RPG, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | God Game · Open World · Sandbox · Colony Sim · Exploration · Simulation · Space · Casual · Cute · Science · Funny · Aliens (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish - Spain, Finnish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese - Portugal |
| Estimated owners | 2,000,000 – 5,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.spore.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Supported OS: Microsoft Windows® XP with Service Pack 1 and Vista Processor: 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium® 4 or equivalent Memory: 512 MB RAM (768 MB RAM for Vista) Graphics: 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 DirectX®: The latest version of DirectX 9.0c or higher Hard Drive: At least 4 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for creations For computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least: Intel Integrated Chipset, 945GM or above 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent 768 MB RAM