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SPORE™ cover art

SPORE™

Maxis™ · Electronic Arts · 2008-12-19

SteamMicrosoft StoreGame Pass

ActionAdventureCasualRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 05, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 04, 2008 (Mac)

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.

SPORE™ is an Action, Adventure, Casual, RPG game released in 2008, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 72747 reviews).

359
playing now
93%
positive of 73k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
5
twitch viewers (latest)
1.7
viewers/channel (concentration)
82/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
73/100
IGDB user rating (412 ratings)
55
Nexus mods (325k downloads)
20h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$19.99
steam price (US)

359 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Spore is a 2008 life simulation real-time strategy god game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Designed by Will Wright, it covers many genres including action, real-time strategy, and role-playing games. Spore allows a player to control the development of a species from its beginnings as a microscopic organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture. It has drawn wide attention for its massive scope, and its use of open-ended gameplay and procedural generation. Throughout each stage, players are able to use various creators to produce content for their games. These are then automatically uploaded to the online Sporepedia and are accessible by other players for download.

Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 359 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3,935 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~492/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 2.9M–5.8M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 73,007 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at EA Store (2021-12-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 16 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.2k1.2k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 410 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 389 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 544 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1,070 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 986 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 768 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 620 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 658 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 601 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 598 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 890 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 768 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 745 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 503 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 652 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 833 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1,163 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 992 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 696 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 779 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 963 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 659 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 642 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 853 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 716 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 871 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 675 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 699 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 902 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 964 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 778 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 727 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 540 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 476 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 605 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 625 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 563 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 461 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 394 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 503 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 767 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 763 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 436 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 470 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 575 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 949 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 519 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 655 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 656 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 657 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 439 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 605 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 632 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 658 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 616 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 738 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 492 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 573 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 550 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 600 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 672 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 439 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 583 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,001 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 673 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 594 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 614 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 426 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 576 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 502 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 538 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 500 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 424 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 450 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 452 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 554 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 506 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 522 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 514 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 455 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 467 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 484 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 530 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 375 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 308 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 10 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.1k2722026-09-15 11:00 — 350 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 481 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 330 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 504 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 874 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 433 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 282 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 577 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 513 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 482 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 544 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 480 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 272 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 659 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 1,030 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 444 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 624 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 730 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 474 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 718 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 965 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 458 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 359 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.4k120Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 277 · peak 509Dec 2012 — avg 212 · peak 497May 2013 — avg 204 · peak 450Oct 2013 — avg 120 · peak 259Mar 2014 — avg 685 · peak 3,234Aug 2014 — avg 758 · peak 1,372Jan 2015 — avg 794 · peak 2,054Jun 2015 — avg 937 · peak 1,929Nov 2015 — avg 719 · peak 2,693Apr 2016 — avg 671 · peak 1,344Sep 2016 — avg 1,176 · peak 5,549Feb 2017 — avg 700 · peak 1,407Jul 2017 — avg 951 · peak 2,105Dec 2017 — avg 894 · peak 1,995May 2018 — avg 595 · peak 1,075Oct 2018 — avg 590 · peak 1,170Mar 2019 — avg 569 · peak 1,087Aug 2019 — avg 707 · peak 1,425Jan 2020 — avg 768 · peak 1,624Jun 2020 — avg 990 · peak 1,887Nov 2020 — avg 792 · peak 1,603Apr 2021 — avg 1,075 · peak 2,236Sep 2021 — avg 1,019 · peak 2,292Feb 2022 — avg 927 · peak 1,771Jul 2022 — avg 837 · peak 1,347Dec 2022 — avg 945 · peak 2,138May 2023 — avg 1,258 · peak 3,519Oct 2023 — avg 647 · peak 1,441Mar 2024 — avg 882 · peak 2,090Aug 2024 — avg 842 · peak 1,501Jan 2025 — avg 873 · peak 2,163Jun 2025 — avg 709 · peak 1,351Nov 2025 — avg 712 · peak 1,475Apr 2026 — avg 651 · peak 1,766Aug 2026 — avg 571 · peak 948
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
27272026-09-222026-10-132026-09-22: 8 new positive2026-09-23: 6 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-25: 7 new positive2026-09-25: 2 new negative2026-09-26: 10 new positive2026-09-26: 1 new negative2026-09-27: 15 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 5 new positive2026-09-28: 1 new negative2026-09-29: 5 new positive2026-10-01: 8 new positive2026-10-01: 1 new negative2026-10-02: 3 new positive2026-10-02: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 12 new positive2026-10-03: 2 new negative2026-10-04: 18 new positive2026-10-04: 2 new negative2026-10-05: 27 new positive2026-10-05: 2 new negative2026-10-06: 8 new positive2026-10-06: 2 new negative2026-10-07: 7 new positive2026-10-07: 2 new negative2026-10-09: 12 new positive2026-10-10: 14 new positive2026-10-10: 4 new negative2026-10-11: 18 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new negative2026-10-12: 9 new positive2026-10-13: 9 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$31.66$0.002015-01-012026-10-082015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-03-07 — best price $10.832015-04-23 — best price $30.032015-06-12 — best price $5.992015-08-17 — best price $19.992015-12-28 — best price $9.992016-04-01 — best price $9.992016-09-06 — best price $4.992017-02-28 — best price $9.992017-08-15 — best price $4.992017-12-21 — best price $4.992018-02-20 — best price $4.992018-10-29 — best price $4.992019-01-11 — best price $19.992019-05-06 — best price $19.992019-08-09 — best price $19.992019-12-20 — best price $9.992020-04-21 — best price $19.992020-08-04 — best price $9.992020-11-02 — best price $19.992021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-04-20 — best price $19.992021-07-23 — best price $4.992021-11-24 — best price $4.992022-02-11 — best price $19.992022-09-20 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-06-30 — best price $3.992023-12-21 — best price $1.992024-03-31 — best price $4.992024-09-19 — best price $4.992025-01-27 — best price $3.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-12-04 — best price $19.992026-03-12 — best price $4.992026-08-27 — best price $0.002026-10-08 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5822672026-05-29 — 336 pageviews2026-06-02 — 351 pageviews2026-06-06 — 325 pageviews2026-06-10 — 297 pageviews2026-06-14 — 324 pageviews2026-06-18 — 349 pageviews2026-06-22 — 467 pageviews2026-06-26 — 387 pageviews2026-06-30 — 348 pageviews2026-07-04 — 341 pageviews2026-07-08 — 546 pageviews2026-07-12 — 477 pageviews2026-07-16 — 370 pageviews2026-07-20 — 384 pageviews2026-07-24 — 296 pageviews2026-07-28 — 372 pageviews2026-08-01 — 337 pageviews2026-08-05 — 337 pageviews2026-08-09 — 362 pageviews2026-08-13 — 344 pageviews2026-08-17 — 336 pageviews2026-08-21 — 368 pageviews2026-08-25 — 375 pageviews2026-08-29 — 274 pageviews2026-09-02 — 283 pageviews2026-09-06 — 335 pageviews2026-09-10 — 352 pageviews2026-09-14 — 300 pageviews2026-09-18 — 279 pageviews2026-09-22 — 359 pageviews2026-09-26 — 302 pageviews2026-09-30 — 300 pageviews2026-10-04 — 365 pageviews2026-10-07 — 294 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

19402026-09-30 22:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-01 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 16:34 — 50 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 33 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 22 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-03 13:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-03 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-04 16:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-05 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 10:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-05 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 04:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-06 22:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-07 07:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-07 16:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-08 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 10:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-08 19:34 — 31 viewers2026-10-09 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 13:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 01:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-11 10:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-11 19:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-12 04:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-12 13:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-12 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 16:34 — 194 viewers2026-10-14 01:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 19:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-14 21:34 — 5 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

15 supported languages: English, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish - Spain, Finnish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish…

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CuteFunnySpaceAliensCasualSci-fiSandboxScienceCartoonyGod Game

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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