Sparkle ZERO
Skip · Action · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $0.84.
- Length
- 1.4h 1.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 54% of 397 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 83% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Many organisms fight for resources and the opportunity to evolve. Be one of them, start from ZERO and become the best, the biggest and the most efficient of them all. Become the ultimate sparkle.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, nVidia 320M or higher, or Radeon 7000 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 or higher, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 100 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.84 at 83 percent off still sits 71 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is less well reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Ratty Catty ($4.49, scores 15) and Gunsmith ($19.99, scores 19) both outscore it.
More about Sparkle ZERO
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 54 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
14% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's more of an experience than a game. The whole feel of moving a microbe-sized object around and eating other objects to grow is interesting, but the concept isn't fully fleshed out and there's no actual challenge. Your only goal is to reach level fifty, at which point the game will remark that "You're the biggest sparkle" and fade the screen to white for no reason. There aren't a lot of other things to eat other...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sparkle ZERO scores 1/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/448000/sparkle-zeroReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.