Spore-like games

This article is about the community surrounding Spore, and not necessarily about the game itself.

A number of games have been compared to Spore, due to having similar gameplay and themes.

Freeware games

Game	Developer	Platform	Description
Elysian Eclipse	Seven Ducks Studios	Microsoft Windows	Elysian Eclipse will be a Sandbox Evolution Simulator, aiming to be a spiritual successor to Spore, letting you evolve from a single-celled amoeba into a space-travelling sentient being. There are seven planned different game stages: Cell, Aquatic, Creature, Tribal, Medieval, Industrial, and finally Space. Each stage will have its own mechanics and is spread over multiple game genres. Turn the galaxy into your personal playground!
Thrive	Revolutionary Games	Microsoft Windows	THRIVE is an open source game which aims to simulate the entire universe - your way. From the lowly tide pools of your home planet, you will evolve a creature to triumph against your adversaries, gain sentience and blast off to explore distant worlds. Seven stages are planned – Microbe, Multicellular, Aware, Awakening, Society, Industrial and Space. Thrive aims to be scientifically accurate while still delivering a fun experience.
Amoeba	Terry Paton	Adobe Flash	An avoider game in which the player, an amoeba, collects glucose cells to grow bigger and avoids viruses.
Biogenesis	Joan Queralt Molina	Java	Biogenesis is an artificial life program that simulates the processes involved in the evolution of organisms. It shows colored segment based organisms that mutate and evolve in a 2D environment. Biogenesis is based on Primordial Life.
Darwin Pond	Rocket Science Games, Inc.	Microsoft Windows	A microbial life simulation.
elu	clysm	Microsoft Windows	A humble life simulator in which the player can slightly affect the environment or simply observe.
Eufloria	Rudolf Kremers & Alex May	Microsoft Windows	A real-time strategy game involving space exploration and conquest.
flOw	Jenova Chen & Nicholas Clark	Adobe Flash	A tidepool game in which the player guides a cell to eat other cells to evolve. At the bottom, you reproduce, and are allowed to play as a different cell. It also has quite a pleasant soundtrack.
iGalaxy	inferno	BS2 mod	A two-dimensional celestial-body simulator.
Microbe Kombat	Hero Interactive	Adobe Flash	A microbe combat game.
Oroboros	Funface Games	Adobe Flash	A dragon-piloting, level-centric game.
Manifest	Michael Chang	Java	A tablet-focused drawing toy featuring procedural microorganisms.
Noctis IV	Fottifoh	Microsoft Windows	Massive universe simulator with up to 80 billion interactive stars and planets.
Plankton Life Plankton Life 2	Logic Collision	Adobe Flash	An avoider game in which the player controls a microorganism.
Sodaplay	Soda Creative Ltd.	Java	A community-driven physics toy repository.
Sipho	All Parts Connected	Microsoft Windows	Sipho is a game that combines eerie real life underwater creatures, insects, body parts with building, combat and exploration. Create your own creature by combining various parts, called zooids.
The Universal		Microsoft Windows	A free downloadable MMO game where you can run your own planet and travel to others run by real people.
Celestia - Galaxy Simulator		Microsoft Windows	A virtual planetarium which can be expanded by addons.
Evochron Renegades		Microsoft Windows	A space simulator with a procedurally generated world just like Spore's
ai.planet		Microsoft Windows	A planet/evolution/ecosystem simulator with simple 3D graphics
Captain Forever		Adobe Flash	A free game, where the player shoots other ships in space to steal their parts. Different ways of constructing the spacecraft will change the way the ships move and shoot. Ships can also be shared with other players. It is not unlike Flow.
Void Hunters		Java	Jagex's game, akin to Captain Forever, only in Java and with a different grid system, also multiplayer. Uses the same login details as runescape
Planetoid 2		Microsoft Windows	A game where you chose a race and start a civilization in space. As you invest in new technology, you can eventually travel to another planet. There is always one other civilization in your system, which you can either befriend or battle. This game has a sequel named Planetoid 3.

Games inspired by Spore

• Evolites - A simple evolution simulator

Commercial games

• Amazing Island - It has a similarly detailed monster creator, these monsters are used to compete in minigames.
• ECO
• Grafitti Kingdom and Magic Pengel - Both games have detailed creature creation and customization. In the former game they are used as transformations in an action game experience, the latter has them be used as battlers in a turn based RPG.
• Creature Creator - This indie game started off as a recreation of the Spore Creature Creator and has become a role-playing experience where you get to create your own creatures to play as.
• Black & White - Both Spore and Black & White are EA published god games.
• Creatures
• Cubivore
• Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life
• E.V.O. The Search for Eden - A game that is themed around evolution, which is the main concept Spore is based around.
  • This game is an SNES game. The link is to a fan page.
• Framsticks
• Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords
• Genewars
• Impossible Creatures - This strategy game allows for fusing two animals to create an army of nine such hybrids.
• Lion
• Master of Orion
• Millennia: Altered Destinies
• No Man's Sky - Both games are often compared due to disappointing launches and Spore's Space Stage being similar in concept to No Man's Sky's general gameplay.
• Niche - a genetics survival game
• Pandromeda
• Ryzom
• Seventh Cross:Evolution
• Sim Life
• Sim Earth
• Sim Park
• Sins of a Solar Empire
• Sipho - Considered Cell Stage on steroids.
• Species: Artificial Life Real Evolution
• Stellaris - Space Stage has major similarities to Stellaris gameplay.
• Stratosphere: Conquest Of The Skies
  • No official site.
• The Sims - Will Wright is credited to have created both The Sims and Spore.
• Unnatural Selection
• Wolf
• Imagine Earth - A game that is similar to colonization and the civilization stages in Spore.
• Evolva

Games that different Spore stages have been compared to

• Microbial Stage: flOw/Pac-man/Agar.io/Tiny Big Planet

• Creature Stage: Soloing quests in World of Warcraft. MMORPG games, Grafitti Kingdom and Magic Pengel

• Tribal Stage: Populous

• Civilization Stage: Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Sid Meier's civilization.

• Space stage: Master of Orion, Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters,ace online}, , Stellaris

Mobile games

Evolution of Species 1 and 2:Like cell stage in spore

Evolution Simulator Trilogy:2 like the cell stage and 1 like the creature stage but with cell stage physics

War of Evolution: Online strategy game that features creature creation similar to the creature and outfit editors, but the rest of the gameplay is not similar to any of Spore stages.