SPORE™

App ID	17390
App type	Game
Developer	Maxis™
Publisher	Electronic Arts
Homepage	http://www.spore.com/
Release date	2008-12-19 08:00 UTC
Store page	store.steampowered.com/app/17390
Last store refresh	1 hour ago

#	Executable	Arguments	OS	Description
0	SporeBin\SporeApp.exe
1	Support\EA Help\Electronic_Arts_Technical_Support.htm			View Support Information

Playing now	538 (19 minutes ago)
24-hour peak	581
All-time peak (tracked)	581 2026-09-11 21:20 UTC

Date	Price	Regular	Discount
2026-09-11 21:00 UTC	$19.99	$19.99

DLC	AppID	Release	Price
No DLC known for this app.

Branch	Build ID	Description	Updated	Password
public	16095569		2024-10-23 18:00 UTC

Depot	Size	Download	Public manifest
355	40.02 KB	16.00 KB	5583537944574530091
17391	3.88 GB	3.41 GB	5845372279136212096
17441	52.82 MB	48.09 MB	8696847549725547130

Build ID	Branch	Updated	First seen
16095569	public	2024-10-23 18:00 UTC	1 hour ago

Changelist	Apps	Packages	Seen	What changed
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Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's minds that was unachievable'

2026-06-14 15:52 UTC · PC Gamer · Justin Wagner

Spore is the greatest game that never was. Clear as day, I remember the wonder the pitch instilled in me as a young'un. It was to be a true simulation like The Sims, not just of daily life, but of the history of all life—life as everything from a unicellular amoeba to a spacefaring alien of my own design, all realized in exacting detail... Read more.

In October 2025, a full 205 months after the ill-fated life sim Spore first launched, someone walked into a store, found an old DVD copy on a shelf, and bought it

2025-11-20 21:29 UTC · PC Gamer · Justin Wagner

Spore might be one of the highest-profile disappointments in all of PC gaming, but it's also a game I have a huge soft spot for. It was the first game I ever begged my parents to preorder for me (for my birthday at the ripe age of 8), and I adored it endlessly back when I had no concept of what anyone else expected it to be. These days, I find myself longing instead for the evolution sim Spore promised to be rather than the minigame mishmash it ended up as, but maybe all I need is a set of fresh eyes. Lucky me, there's at least one newcomer to the game somewhere out there... Read more.

After years of silence, the legendary life sim Spore has crawled back to life like a 3-eyed amphibian emerging from a primordial alien sea

2024-10-01 18:42 UTC · PC Gamer · Andy Chalk

Spore was a pretty big deal back in the day, a life-sim RTS from famed Sims studio Maxis that gave players the opportunity to guide the evolution of a species from primordial soup to interstellar exploration. It was huge, ambitious, and unique, and alas, it was not great: The ideas behind it were bold, but the actual gameplay was pretty flat. We said in a 2018 retrospective that "in many ways, Spore was No Man’s Sky before No Man’s Sky"—minus the redemption arc... Read more.

Forget Civilization 7, I want a new Spore game already

2023-12-24 02:44 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com

Spore is unequivocally the greatest god game I've ever played, and I'll say it with my whole simulation-loving heart. Maxis, the genius developer behind The Sims, created its unique real-time strategy game back in 2008 when I was practically still an evolving little microscopic organism myself. As a child obsessed with The Sims and Zoo Tycoon, it wasn't long before I lost hundreds of hours to Spore that could've been spent playing outside. I'm now ready to lose even more, over a decade later. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This Spore dragon a player created was so complex it coul

Spore + DLC sale

2021-04-12 16:39 UTC · Community Announcements · imarchand

Save on DLC and the base game until April 19th. SALE PAGE {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3952949/e6d378d3d506c8a7f4cf31f12f19c9ff91f0753b.jpg

Have You Played… Spore?

2021-01-19 07:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (James Law)

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Spore is several games in one, none of which are particularly impressive on their own. It’s life sim meets strategy, where you grow a tiny organism with a little snappy mouth into a horrible monstrosity you made look like a penis because you’re hilarious. Eventually that penis will become a spacefaring species trying to traverse and spread throughout the galaxy. (more…)

Five of the Best: Character Creators

2020-01-24 12:00 UTC · Eurogamer

Five of the Best is a weekly series about the parts of games we overlook. We've discussed a diverse bunch: crowds, hubs, potions, mountains, hands... They're the things we take for granted while we play but then, years later, find lodged in our brains. It's only then we begin to appreciate how important they were. So let's celebrate them. Today... Character creators! How long do you spend in them? Do you pick a premade face and just breeze through? Do you pick a template, tinker a bit and then settle? Or do you adjust absolutely everything, take all evening and it still doesn't look right? I f

I still wish Spore was good, but a decade later it's a slog

2018-11-01 11:43 UTC · PC Gamer

In Reinstall, we revisit a game from the past and see what kind of experience it gives us now. It's not a re-review, more just a snapshot of what it's like to play this game now. Back in 2008, Spore was a source of daft community character creation joy, incredibly uneven ambition and a massive row about the digital rights management software EA insisted on using at launch. In many ways, Spore was No Man’s Sky before No Man’s Sky.  There are two Spore experiences I remember clearly from 2008. One was waddling around on land for the ﬁrst time after graduating

Spore and Sims creator Will Wright unveils Proxi

2018-03-20 11:25 UTC · Eurogamer

Will Wright led creation of SimCity and later The Sims, then he made the very ambitious evolution-themed simulation Spore. He's someone who thinks rather big. And he's unveiled a new game called Proxi, the mobile version of which is due late 2018 (no other platforms are named). It's a simulation based around creating an artificial intelligence from your memories and then building a world out of them. Here's Wright's lofty pitch: Read more…

Midweek Madness - SPORE , 75% Off

2017-03-21 17:05 UTC · Announcement · Valve

Save 75% on the SPORE series during this week's Midweek Madness*! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time

It s Time For Spore 2

2016-10-19 18:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

Trees that grow from seeds you plant? Easy. 18 quintillion planets? Whatever. If you want to talk about videogames’ most ambitious endeavors, there’s only one contender for the top spot. Spore, released in 2008, let players control a species they created from single cell organism all the way through to becoming space explorers. That included designing everything from the huts you lived in during the tribe stage, to the spaceships you used to careen around the galaxy near the game’s conclusion. Most importantly, it let you craft exactly what kind of weirdo you’d be takin

Mirror's Edge, Spore, and The Saboteur are now on GOG

2016-09-22 20:47 UTC · PC Gamer

Mirror's Edge Catalyst was good, but not quite as good as we all hoped it would be: As close to a definitive version of a Mirror's Edge game as we're likely to get, Samuel wrote in his review, despite retaining some of the first game's issues. If you don't happen to be familiar with those issues, you might want to point yourself at GOG, which now has Mirror's Edge and two other not-exactly-recent EA releases, all of them currently on sale. That means the original Mirror's Edge for $10, the Spore Collection for $12, and The Saboteur for $10. Mirror's Edge is probably the marquee game in the lis

Midweek Madness - SPORE , 75% Off

2016-09-06 17:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve

Save 75% on SPORE™ during this week's Midweek Madness*! From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations. Play through Spore's five evolutionary stages: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Each stage has its own unique style, challenges, and goals. *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time

The most ambitious PC games

2016-07-14 00:47 UTC · PC Gamer

Every game is ambitious. It s not easy to turn a beautiful idea into a finished, playable game as developers have said time and again, sometimes it feels almost impossible. As miraculous as finishing any game might be, not all games are created equal. Some stretch the boundaries of technology to their breaking point. Others take a leap into the unknown with new design schools, often so effectively that years later, it s hard to remember them ever having to be invented. Think, for example, of Monkey Island s Three Trials structure, as used by almost every adventure afterwards. Or its sequel s F

Daily Deal - SPORE , 75% Off

2014-12-13 18:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve

Today's Deal: Save 75% on SPORE™!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

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Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's minds that was unachievable'

In October 2025, a full 205 months after the ill-fated life sim Spore first launched, someone walked into a store, found an old DVD copy on a shelf, and bought it

After years of silence, the legendary life sim Spore has crawled back to life like a 3-eyed amphibian emerging from a primordial alien sea

Forget Civilization 7, I want a new Spore game already

Spore + DLC sale

Have You Played… Spore?

Five of the Best: Character Creators

I still wish Spore was good, but a decade later it's a slog

Spore and Sims creator Will Wright unveils Proxi

Midweek Madness - SPORE , 75% Off

It s Time For Spore 2

Mirror's Edge, Spore, and The Saboteur are now on GOG

Midweek Madness - SPORE , 75% Off

The most ambitious PC games

Daily Deal - SPORE , 75% Off