SPORE™ Galactic Adventures
Worth it · Action · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 9.9h
- Value
- $2.02/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in December 2024. 85 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. 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.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Endless Sky (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Elite Dangerous ($19.99, scores 45).
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.
9 of the 663 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 638 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 9.9 hours; clearing it takes 51, which is 5.1 times the campaign.
Players
136 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
if Maxis never releases a spore two i will punch my wall and break my wrist and it's going to take a lot of time to recover from that injury so i hope that wont happen
One of the best games ever made, this is the extension of the original spore game and takes you to space. Its fun and challenging, well worth buying.
Crash very often on newer operating systems. In nowdays state i do not recommand.
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™ Galactic Adventures scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/24720/spore-galactic-adventuresThe 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 1, price as of Sep 24.
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