Sparkle 3 Genesis
Skip · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 9, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews▼
- 60% of 573
- Genre rank
- Top 91% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4h
- To 100%
- 9.8h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 32
Price and sales
- Sales
- 107 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 August 2015
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 51% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 6% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
17% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 107 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Bird ($0.99, scores 48) outscores it, and so does Tree Simulator 2022 ($5.99, scores 76). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Sparkle 3 Genesis
Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
4 hours to finish it, 10 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 18 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Sparkle 3 Genesis, developed and published by Forever Entertainment S. A., is a meditative and experimental indie title that shifts the Sparkle name away from traditional arcade puzzle roots and into the realm of abstract exploration and evolution. Rather than focusing on score chasing or fast reflex challenges, the game invites players into a tranquil, alien ecosystem where growth, choice, and atmosphere take...
1 more review, not recommended
Collected sparks like they owed me rent. Every level felt like fixing a TV with a spoon. I'm not playing. I'm serving sentence.
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About the game
Step into the amazing world of Sparkle – a surreal ocean, where life is thriving and conditions are perfect to make an evolutionary leap.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 7800, ATI/AMD Radeaon HD2600/3600, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sparkle 3 Genesis scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/361190/sparkle-3-genesisReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.