SPORE™
BANGER · RPG · 2008
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 12.4h
- Value
- $1.61/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was December 2021. It has been discounted 90 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. The nearest things to it, The Universim ($29.99, scores 58) and SPORE™ Galactic Adventures ($19.99, scores 81), are both worse buys on this math.
$67.40 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $19.99.
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 9 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 699 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 4,875 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 12.4 hours; clearing it takes 103, which is 8.3 times the campaign.
18 years after release it still had 599 people in it at once.
Players
599 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It's got amazing replay value due to being able to design your own creatures to play as, lots of customization in the creatures themselves and pretty good gameplay. Definitely recommend if it's on sale.
although the game is very outdated it is always a beautiful experience, the creativity has no limits you choose a world of your desire build life, give descriptions, and have a blast, it is such a great game, after you already do a playthrough your own creations from other worlds can be a part of your new playthrough it is such a cool aspect in a game and i HIGHLY recommend playing it all the way through having tons...
I love this game, I don't play often, but when I do, it SO much fun. It brings me so much nostalgia from playing it when i was younger, back when it came out. This was also made by pre-greedy EA, so its so much fun, even without the two DLC's they made.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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SPORE™ scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/17390/sporeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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