A lot of people were just interested in games like Spore and missed, so here's a list for you with some extras! There's so much more simulation too, check the playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLYVqUDxY6COh7bkuJoBb1koNRX7mAX2yp.html
@@MrPitxardo That was first revealed just 6 months ago and it looks like it's in early development, and it's not labelled that it'll be early access or anything, so if it's going straight into full release I don't see it being a thing in 2024. The dev says it's too early to speculate on a release date too. I'll check back in on it next year.
Hi @GamerZakh, I'm the developer of Lifeforms: Binary Fission. I've been a fan of yours for a long time. Its surreal to see my game in one of your lists, I still can't believe it! Thanks for showing it and thanks for the excellent content!
Heya! Moderator of Elysian Eclipse here. Thank you for showcasing the game. The developer hopes to recreate the game in a way, Spore was supposed to be with a lot of own ideas. He already said that he won't give up on his passion project no matter what happens.
@PoopHead-bw6hn Funny, you ask that. It is a bit of an inside joke in our Discord server by now. I think a mobile version is not planned simply because the game would be too hard to run on it.
I played spore as a kid and it holds a special place in my heart and love it to this day, But i felt like it was missing a few things that it could have diffidently needed. Like being able to play underground or in the sea or in the sky. Plus so much more. I have Elysian Eclipse on my wish list now and CANT wait to see what all you come up with.
I think a lot of evolution games dont put in the fact that your creature’s survivability should also depend if its adaptations fit into the environment. I’d love to see a game that allows your creature to adapt by building their nests in trees or caves or building a wall or hive made of mud or sticks around the nest. Or if it is a freezing planet, your creature needs thick fur or blubber to survive better.
Spore to this day is still ahead of it's time. Regardless of missing a lot of mechanics that were promised. It would take a big developer a lot of time to come up with something even close to what spore was
We just need Wil Wright to release Spore from halfway in development. EA had him axing features that were fully developed, they may as well make a profit off of it as a sequel.
I don't think it would take much to make the game. There just needs to be a drive out there to make one in the first place (which there isn't), by a party that perhaps has more than 1 million dollars to their name... which basically excludes most indies. But its a drop in the bucket compared to AAA studio budgets.
spore is a fantastic game, if it was made today in its entirety and with what was promised it would arguably one of the greatest games ever. I think with OG though the fun part is in the first half of the game and tribal stage onwards gets extremely boring.
Not so many Spore-likes aim to replicate the most important aspect of Spore, imo, that you can guide a simple cell to evolve into a galactic empire😢 ofc, it’s understandable considering the sheer amount of manpower you need to develop all the stages, but without such epic big-history feeling, it doesn’t really feel like a Spore successor…
Yeah only really Elysian Eclipse and Thrive are attempting that, but to have to done in a reasonable amount of time is near impossible without a AAA budget.
EA/Maxis still have a patent on evolutionary/civilization stage based games. This is the language used for their patent “A video game that provides a player game play experience that simulates an evolution process is disclosed. In each stage of the evolution process, the player can create game content that is uploaded to a server. “
I mean, I can't imagine THAT much manpower. Keep in mind, even for it's time, Spore was pretty slapped together. As much as I like it, everything about it is half-baked, and not because it was necessarily difficult to do. It's a 2.5D game where you just go around eating one of two types of things, bumping into procedurally generated enemies, followed by a 3D game where you go around a procedurally generated area, either attacking or dancing/singing at more procedurally generated creatures, followed by an RTS, followed by an RTS, followed by a space exploration game that's overwhelmingly focused on trade. Does that sound like a lot? I wouldn't blame you if you said yes, but executing all of those ideas to a higher standard than EA actually ISN'T that huge, as someone that used to be in game development. It's not like each one could be done in an afternoon, obviously, but it's not like each individual stage would need 5 years with hundreds of people working on it. Frankly, if we were talking a 5 year development timeline, I could easily see it getting done with only one or two people working on each stage. Assuming they're actually interested in getting any work done at all, being focused, and not throwing out years of work because they had no idea what they were actually working toward and ended up wasting literal years of development time on things that were entirely worthless. Which isn't exactly common in the games industry anymore.
Fun fact: Spore was originally going to be a LOT more graphic, it was going to be a lot more complicated, butttt the dumb asses in charge thought the game wouldn't be exciting for kids, so they literally had it completely redone to be rounder, cuter and more "kid friendly" with a simple and fast gameplay objective.
The first stage of Spore was fun. The second stage was amazing! The later stages I basically had to force myself to play them to try to find the appeal to them. I didn't find it.
Great video! I'm a bit late, my favorite part about spore was around the creature/tribal stage, I'm a bit bummed now that there wasn't any push for dinosaur things, since creatures in spore often resemble mammals, especially built in stuff. Another part was the super giant creatures, forget what they were called, but I was always kind of sad that the creature stage wasn't expanded into that direction or something similar.
Thank you for this video. I have been looking for ages for a spore successor because yhe replayability of Spore dropped massively once you played it for a few hundred hours
I’m probably wrong as hell BUT the fact EA did give out a recent update that tbh was extremely just flat out nothing in the grand scheme of things but still something, does make me wonder if they are making a new one, considering they just acknowledged it’s existence and sims 5 is none existent rn
I remember 10 years ago Universesim being announced, but never watched any gameplay video. I have no idea how it plays and hearing it is coming out of EA is incredible.
I also had played it for quite a bit, i think its noteworthy to point out, that the upcoming release will break the save for the last time(they promised), although i have also read that many new Narrator lines got added and more of the Story as well(or something along the lines).
I would like to add that Stellaris seems very similar to Spore's space stage, if anyone's looking for a more fleshed out version of that over the usual things people tend to look for in a Spore-like game. I can't confirm how good it is, I haven't played it myself, but it seems pretty solid.
Pretty unfortunate that most of these are either in early access or not yet out - I generally do not buy early access - but thanks for the list, wishlisted a few. Unfortunately some aren't on GoG (like lifeforms: Binary Fission and Elysian Eclipse)
There are two games, known as the evolution of species duology, that ask the question of "what if the cell stage never ended?" ?t also has a lot more than the cell stage. You don't have to do mate calls and actually find a mate to evolve. There is a level system that forces you to level up to unlock items.
maybe it's just me but... for the most part I like spore as it is, in my mind nothing else would be able to remake something like it with the same feel.
I loved SPORE. Surprised you said the cell and creature stage were the favourites. I rather enjoyed the Space and Tribal stage the best. Even though Creature was a close third favourite. But nothing could beat the space stage for me. OK the "promised" version of it wasn't to be, yet it was complicated enough but not overtly to be GOOD. Just shame about all the rubbish with the codes and if you got a new machine you had to basically buy another SPORE game (or crack it). It became the most pirated game due to the code system on the CDs I think anyways.
I think that is why there's a few that just do the cell stage kind of thing. Personally I only really liked cell to creature, didn't really like tribe to space.
It just kinda gets worse as it goes on cell and creature is fun, tribal goes to quickly civ is fun but I hate making buildings and vehicles and I've never tried space but it doesn't seem the best
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I'm thinking of that but I'm still going through so many games making these lists first. I've only really covered like half the genres of games so far.
I think why most Spore spiritual successors focus so much on the cell stage is due to it's just the first stage of the game, it's much easier to design the gameplay or it's the one being butchered the most from the original development. I didn't enjoy the cell stage that much from Spore but it was rather quick and brief to complete. I favor the Creature game more. And here's an unpopular opinion: the tribal stage was my favorite as a kid! I just love to have some 3D strategy game where you controls each individual units in a tribe.
As a "spore 2" developer, I can say that creating cell is 2 times easier than creature. It is really, really hard. A lot harder than any game, so harder that it's impossible to say in words. Literally on a whole new level of technology, so creating a tiny thing in Spore-like game is already a big step.
Sipho makes me think of the upcoming Moduwar which is now set for a Q2 2024 release... I want more DarkSpore... I loved it ! I succeeded to make some pretty fun creatures by adding limbs and whatnot to those existing heroes. (also, the only healer of the game who was tremendeously useful was highly nerfed which killed the game for me) So I wanted Darkspore in spore with the mod aaaand it didn't really work... But Spore was always that fun game where you could create funny creatures (remember Robin Williams playing with the creature creator?) and after that... it was meeeeh... the civilization stage was too fast and quite stupid, not deep enough. The space age was on the other hand, too long ! You messed around within a few solar system and then it was time to start all over 'cause it was boring. (with some weird limitation)
there are literally true spore sequels, that are actually spore titles. they only take place in the creature phase, and have a more open world rpg take with some story. but if you enjoy the creature phase of spore, they are basically that but for the whole game.
I wish they would remake EVO: search for Eden. Only make it much larger. Make the creatures have special abilities depending on body parts. Make certain pathways only enterable depending on body parts. Make certain combinations unlock unique abilities. Spore...was fine. But it missed the mark, as seemingly based on this video, devs.
Am i the only one who loved the civilization/stage 4? Really stages 3-5 were the best but i really enjoyed the bonuses that carried through that werent explicitly stated like you allies becoming stock for extra food in tribal, and your spice claims in civilization affecting your spice production rates in space. Befriending the stronger solo guys in stage 2 was also a great achievement imo.
Thank you for the video❤😊... I was expecting ... Uhm😅 more games like Universim or even the Civilization Stage aspect but alas😮. Eh? Why? 😮 I like that in the original SPORE 😂 You need only *ONE* type of entertainment building? Cinema? Restaurant? A Tavern? Only one can be used per nation😂. This is so so funny I research this topic for😅... For... *5* Years. And there just is not a Game like Spore.
adapt seems to have a lot of potential; probably a lot more like what people were expecting out of spore in the first place, and I think wisely chooses not to go hard into the space stage or some kind of RTS/civ kind of strategy game. The creature stage in spore itself was very underdeveloped despite containing the vast majority of spore's unique identity, while the civ stage and the space stage were... I would say almost absolutely generic. Space stage didn't really do the best job taking advantage of what game it was in; the real appeal should have been terraforming and space habitats, but it was mostly trading and fighting.
either i am too high and mixing videos up or i have already seen this video. I think i remember you said the steam reviews indicator thingy before, word for word. I might be thinking about last year's video though
Yes, this is taking games I already covered in the god games list then reduced to just the Spore-likes with a couple extra games. People just don't usually watch the lists unless it's exactly what they're looking for. After I made the god games list, people were DMing me to make a Spore list. They didn't watch the god games list because they don't consider Spore a god game.
@@GamerZakh Thank you, that might be it! Sorry, I was confused cause i always watch your list videos! I totally didn't mean it as a critique, I genuinely was confused lol Anyways, I appreciate you replying. Your reviews are always thorough, and try to be balanced, so thank you for the hard work!
@@Vaquedoso Thanks! That is really kind of you. And yeah it is confusing no worries, I didn't take it as critique. It's just some won't watch unless it's packaged just right haha
May I add a game for my phone called "War of Evolution" that is also very similar to spore. I haven't made it past the tutoral phase yet but starts out just like the cell stage in spore. hopefully I get past the point where I have to do what is says and can explore it soon.
That went into early access 6 years ago and the original estimate was 3 years in early access. Development keeps going quiet with minimal updates, last update was 2 years ago, so generally not a 'new' game and not something I'd be keeping much of an eye on unless it got some significant news.
I finished universim recently and got to say, while early stages were fun, once you get to the space stage its basically like a NG+ where you have your tree maxed out and can colonize a new planet to start all over again, and you can do this pretty much forever. But why would you? At that point there really isn't a point in playing anymore, space age isn't like traveling around the galaxy like it was in say spore where you could conquer the entire galaxy if you wanted but its more like jumping from one colony to the next where you get to redo everything all over again. So ultimately it was disappointing to me. Lets be honest, there probably won't be a game like Spore ever again, just because of the scope that game had. Various game devs are trying to copy parts of it, but never really go beyond and try to improve upon it. Honestly Spore itself needs a total remake, too bad that EA killed the studio
I'll be honest, the later stages in Spore were what made the game rather boring to me. I wish they would've focused on the creature stages. The tribal stage only makes me want to play an RTS like Age of empires, The civilization stage makes me want to play Civilization, and once you get into a space civilization makes me want to play Endless Space. It's like it's a bunch of half-cooked ideas that never feel like they're fully realized, only the cell and creature stage feel unique, and it would've been amazing if they just expanded on the creature component. They could've made huge ecosystems, and have the ability to grow your own giant creatures. In some way, I wish it was more like Evo: Search for Eden, but less grindy and fully exploring the capabilities of what the 3d environment could offer.
Well, in the case of The Sapling, the idea is great, but the optimization is poor and the creature building system is inconvenient and too simple (but involves several uncommonly seen, yet important features).
Someone should take the Evolution online card game by North Star Digital Studios, do a little world building, create some kind of development tree, add some eye candy and you would have a fun strategy game inspired by biology. The evolution games are fun, but most are not really scientific. Species evolve, not individuals. A species evolve according to natural selection on a geological timescale - not by eating stuff and designing a phenotype. Most evolutionary changes fail except in the rare circumstances where the changes is favoured by the changes to the environment.
This guy didn't research Thrive at all. He thinks they're an actual game studio and "it entered early access in 2021" while completely failing to mention it is an open source game intending to recreate all of Spore. The lack of research on this game is quite frankly embarrassing and makes me lose trust and faith in this UA-camr and the rest of this list.
It did enter early access in 2021. I never said "actual game studio". And sure it's open source and has all sorts of plans, but that's not important. Why are you ignoring the 150 month dev time plan? You think it's lack of research, but you have lack of context. I'm talking about what it is right now because how important is it right now to talk about what Thrive will be in 2034? 2034! Seriously, why did you skip that very important bit of context? I make these lists every year, if Thrive gets better then I'll talk about the new stuff. But right now for 2024, because this is a 2024 list, what it is 10 years from now is not relevant for 2024. You don't trust me? Nah I don't trust you. You put words I never said in my mouth, lack all contextual relevance, and judge what you haven't seen based on your misunderstanding.
You did a great job with your video but the actual games themselves don't look interesting at all. They look like paraphrased versions of the same game with the same problems.
Spore got more boring and tedious the further you went into it, but it also had more to do. Its execution wasn’t the best, that was the issue. Cell stage had very little to do, but it went quickly so it didn’t matter. Creature stage had significantly more to do, but it was ultimately repetitive outside of the diversity of what you were facing and the random events. Creature stage, though I’d arguably the best stage in spore as past this stage things just start getting boring. Tribal stage wasn’t… bad, per se, just bare-bones. It was an RTS with survival aspects and different methods of said survival depending on the path you took but it was too easy and went too quick. All you had to do depending on your path was rush food, then rush weapons/instruments. You didn’t need to do anything else. Hell, you didn’t even really need to think about what weapons or instruments you gave your tribesmen, so long as you had an even mix of instruments you’d be fine and so long as you had enough weapons in general you’d be fine. The only time you faced a snag was with RNG regarding instruments, as if you picked the wrong village to go to they’d ask for instruments you don’t have. Civilisation stage is the first disappointing stage. Every stage beforehand is affected significantly by the choices you made in the stage before. Cell stage affected what you can eat in the creature stage and also gave you potential access to unique starting parts (even if most didn’t do anything). Creature stage’s parts carried over into the tribal stage, helping you (mostly) in combat. The only thing that affects the civilisation stage is your aggression from the creature and tribal stage, the way your creature is made doesn’t affect it at all, and in fact past this point you barely even see your creature anymore. Civilisation stage goes fully into the RTS stuff, with vehicles, weapons, bases, resources, etc. you don’t need most of it though. Spam cars with weapons then rush the closest bases, ezpz. Space stage is the most tedious and arguably the worst stage. Quests, trading, and the ultimate goal of reaching the center of the universe. All your choices leading up to the space stage don’t matter in the slightest. Doesn’t matter if you’re a carnivore, if you’re religious, if you’re aggressive, etc etc. the only thing you get from your choices at this point is a special ability and maybe some changed dialogue stuff. That’s it. You’ve still got the same goals, you can play any way you like, and the Grox are till your enemy (unless you do the work). Space stage isn’t even really that hard. You barely need to do the given quests, all you really need to do is trade spice. It’s a glorified merchant simulator. Mind you, you DO need to unlock things, via discovery and stuff but then well… Spice trading. Because you need sporebux to be able to get to the center of the universe which is the end of the game and the only goal you have (not mentioning that you can choose to continue afterwards, maybe work to defeat the Grox). So yeah, cell to creature is the best parts of the game with MAYBE Tribal too…
respecto a thrive, (que es el que espero), según ellos podía llegar a estar para el 2028, pero con eso de 150 meses me mataste xd, pasa que ellos empezaran desde célula base "procariota" (aunque creo que talvez lo hagan de molécula) y pasaran por eucariota pero habrán edades o eras donde llegue a animal, a las tribus, civilizaciones, espacio y irán mas allá terminando en algo que tiene que ver con la cuarta dimensión, dioses en toda la escancia, las edades que nombraron son raras de mencionar no me acuerdo pero eran como 25 mas o menos, mas que el EE1 xd, por esto lo espero con ganas, pero si aun T___T van por etapa celular, y bueno, son pocos y están haciéndolo científicamente, es mas recientemente comentaron que se descubrió una nueva encima o proteína y charlaron sobre si implementarla o no.
A lot of people were just interested in games like Spore and missed, so here's a list for you with some extras! There's so much more simulation too, check the playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLYVqUDxY6COh7bkuJoBb1koNRX7mAX2yp.html
You missed Planetary Life!
@@MrPitxardo That was first revealed just 6 months ago and it looks like it's in early development, and it's not labelled that it'll be early access or anything, so if it's going straight into full release I don't see it being a thing in 2024. The dev says it's too early to speculate on a release date too. I'll check back in on it next year.
Hi @GamerZakh, I'm the developer of Lifeforms: Binary Fission. I've been a fan of yours for a long time. Its surreal to see my game in one of your lists, I still can't believe it! Thanks for showing it and thanks for the excellent content!
Real?
It's real
Heya! Moderator of Elysian Eclipse here. Thank you for showcasing the game. The developer hopes to recreate the game in a way, Spore was supposed to be with a lot of own ideas.
He already said that he won't give up on his passion project no matter what happens.
Make a mobile version please!
@PoopHead-bw6hn Funny, you ask that. It is a bit of an inside joke in our Discord server by now. I think a mobile version is not planned simply because the game would be too hard to run on it.
I played spore as a kid and it holds a special place in my heart and love it to this day, But i felt like it was missing a few things that it could have diffidently needed. Like being able to play underground or in the sea or in the sky. Plus so much more. I have Elysian Eclipse on my wish list now and CANT wait to see what all you come up with.
@@343MadMan Thank you! 😊
@@Hawky610will it be online?
I think a lot of evolution games dont put in the fact that your creature’s survivability should also depend if its adaptations fit into the environment. I’d love to see a game that allows your creature to adapt by building their nests in trees or caves or building a wall or hive made of mud or sticks around the nest. Or if it is a freezing planet, your creature needs thick fur or blubber to survive better.
Spore to this day is still ahead of it's time. Regardless of missing a lot of mechanics that were promised. It would take a big developer a lot of time to come up with something even close to what spore was
Spore is Legendary
We just need Wil Wright to release Spore from halfway in development. EA had him axing features that were fully developed, they may as well make a profit off of it as a sequel.
Spore was no mans sky before it was cool.
I don't think it would take much to make the game. There just needs to be a drive out there to make one in the first place (which there isn't), by a party that perhaps has more than 1 million dollars to their name... which basically excludes most indies. But its a drop in the bucket compared to AAA studio budgets.
spore is a fantastic game, if it was made today in its entirety and with what was promised it would arguably one of the greatest games ever. I think with OG though the fun part is in the first half of the game and tribal stage onwards gets extremely boring.
Not so many Spore-likes aim to replicate the most important aspect of Spore, imo, that you can guide a simple cell to evolve into a galactic empire😢 ofc, it’s understandable considering the sheer amount of manpower you need to develop all the stages, but without such epic big-history feeling, it doesn’t really feel like a Spore successor…
elysian eclipse: “i beg your pardon?”
Yeah only really Elysian Eclipse and Thrive are attempting that, but to have to done in a reasonable amount of time is near impossible without a AAA budget.
thrive is planing to. also a grat game
EA/Maxis still have a patent on evolutionary/civilization stage based games.
This is the language used for their patent
“A video game that provides a player game play experience that simulates an evolution process is disclosed. In each stage of the evolution process, the player can create game content that is uploaded to a server. “
I mean, I can't imagine THAT much manpower. Keep in mind, even for it's time, Spore was pretty slapped together. As much as I like it, everything about it is half-baked, and not because it was necessarily difficult to do. It's a 2.5D game where you just go around eating one of two types of things, bumping into procedurally generated enemies, followed by a 3D game where you go around a procedurally generated area, either attacking or dancing/singing at more procedurally generated creatures, followed by an RTS, followed by an RTS, followed by a space exploration game that's overwhelmingly focused on trade.
Does that sound like a lot? I wouldn't blame you if you said yes, but executing all of those ideas to a higher standard than EA actually ISN'T that huge, as someone that used to be in game development. It's not like each one could be done in an afternoon, obviously, but it's not like each individual stage would need 5 years with hundreds of people working on it. Frankly, if we were talking a 5 year development timeline, I could easily see it getting done with only one or two people working on each stage.
Assuming they're actually interested in getting any work done at all, being focused, and not throwing out years of work because they had no idea what they were actually working toward and ended up wasting literal years of development time on things that were entirely worthless. Which isn't exactly common in the games industry anymore.
Fun fact: Spore was originally going to be a LOT more graphic, it was going to be a lot more complicated, butttt the dumb asses in charge thought the game wouldn't be exciting for kids, so they literally had it completely redone to be rounder, cuter and more "kid friendly" with a simple and fast gameplay objective.
The first one, Elysian Eclipse looks like an exact copy of SPORE, maybe with updated graphics and UI, but very similar.
The first stage of Spore was fun. The second stage was amazing! The later stages I basically had to force myself to play them to try to find the appeal to them. I didn't find it.
Same.
i love all of spore... except maybe the space stage...
Same, Space stage is the unfunnest to me. (followed by tribal and city)
9:48 fun fact: spore has an unused "flora editor", implying players could've created plants and not just animals.
Great video!
I'm a bit late, my favorite part about spore was around the creature/tribal stage, I'm a bit bummed now that there wasn't any push for dinosaur things, since creatures in spore often resemble mammals, especially built in stuff.
Another part was the super giant creatures, forget what they were called, but I was always kind of sad that the creature stage wasn't expanded into that direction or something similar.
I actually wanted a game like the tribal phase, it was my favorite then the others. The single cell stage was also very fun.
Thank you for this video.
I have been looking for ages for a spore successor because yhe replayability of Spore dropped massively once you played it for a few hundred hours
The truth is, there is no games like Spore which is a shame, I'd love to create my own species and make them evolve through the ages...
14:12 Ayyyo what the lime green garbage container doing on the road 😭
This was very informative and also such a relaxing time to watch! Really cool vibe of a review thank you! :)
I've seen a playthrough of Sapling and gotten a very positive impression, and it seems to get updates frequently.
Never played much Spore, but I did buy the digital version of it recently. It's something I want to get into at some point.
Thank you for the recommendations!
I’m probably wrong as hell BUT the fact EA did give out a recent update that tbh was extremely just flat out nothing in the grand scheme of things but still something, does make me wonder if they are making a new one, considering they just acknowledged it’s existence and sims 5 is none existent rn
I remember 10 years ago Universesim being announced, but never watched any gameplay video. I have no idea how it plays and hearing it is coming out of EA is incredible.
I really thought it'd never be finished.
Yeah it's a weird game for sure. I have it also
I also had played it for quite a bit, i think its noteworthy to point out, that the upcoming release will break the save for the last time(they promised), although i have also read that many new Narrator lines got added and more of the Story as well(or something along the lines).
@TakahiroShinsaku well that's good too know so my saves are no good yeah I stopped playing because they kept breaking my saves lol
I remember people saying thrive was hard and then I played it and didn't die once
I loved Spore. And would love to look into new games :)
I would like to add that Stellaris seems very similar to Spore's space stage, if anyone's looking for a more fleshed out version of that over the usual things people tend to look for in a Spore-like game. I can't confirm how good it is, I haven't played it myself, but it seems pretty solid.
It's a great game, but Paradox is greedier than EA with their DLCs. Play it, but don't buy it.
nice list :) Thanks
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it
Pretty unfortunate that most of these are either in early access or not yet out - I generally do not buy early access - but thanks for the list, wishlisted a few. Unfortunately some aren't on GoG (like lifeforms: Binary Fission and Elysian Eclipse)
Another year without a game exceeding Spore, unfortunately...
There are two games, known as the evolution of species duology, that ask the question of "what if the cell stage never ended?" ?t also has a lot more than the cell stage. You don't have to do mate calls and actually find a mate to evolve. There is a level system that forces you to level up to unlock items.
maybe it's just me but... for the most part I like spore as it is, in my mind nothing else would be able to remake something like it with the same feel.
My gripe with spors-like is they all look exactly like spores.
Only if one of these looked different, more life like.
Check out Thrive. It’s still just the microbe stage but it’s focused on science much more than spore
I loved SPORE. Surprised you said the cell and creature stage were the favourites. I rather enjoyed the Space and Tribal stage the best. Even though Creature was a close third favourite.
But nothing could beat the space stage for me. OK the "promised" version of it wasn't to be, yet it was complicated enough but not overtly to be GOOD. Just shame about all the rubbish with the codes and if you got a new machine you had to basically buy another SPORE game (or crack it). It became the most pirated game due to the code system on the CDs I think anyways.
TANKS FOR THIS VIDEO
Looks like if first Spore game was released in 2022 instead 2008, this my childhood game
A really enjoyable mobile game I love to play is Microcosm: battle of cells
I was so hyped from the 2008 demo.. EA.. disappointed me.
Yeah I rewatched that just recently, it really looked like magic. Will never forget when he zooms out and you see the galaxy for the first time.
Add evolve: card game (it has no editor but in game you have to adapt to predators adding cards and getting bigger and growing population to win)
I hate to admit it, but the only thing I've enjoyed in Spore was the cell stage.
I think that is why there's a few that just do the cell stage kind of thing. Personally I only really liked cell to creature, didn't really like tribe to space.
It just kinda gets worse as it goes on cell and creature is fun, tribal goes to quickly civ is fun but I hate making buildings and vehicles and I've never tried space but it doesn't seem the best
Same here😅I loved the cellstage so much❤
love your videos brother, thanks for your consistent quality content. do you have merch? if not maybe i can make a shirt design for you based on your specifications, free of course
Universim was one of the first things I ever kickstarted. It has gotten so far. :P
I was thinking it would never get a release date.
You should make a video of your favorite upcoming video games of 2024!
I'm thinking of that but I'm still going through so many games making these lists first. I've only really covered like half the genres of games so far.
I think why most Spore spiritual successors focus so much on the cell stage is due to it's just the first stage of the game, it's much easier to design the gameplay or it's the one being butchered the most from the original development. I didn't enjoy the cell stage that much from Spore but it was rather quick and brief to complete. I favor the Creature game more. And here's an unpopular opinion: the tribal stage was my favorite as a kid! I just love to have some 3D strategy game where you controls each individual units in a tribe.
As a "spore 2" developer, I can say that creating cell is 2 times easier than creature. It is really, really hard. A lot harder than any game, so harder that it's impossible to say in words. Literally on a whole new level of technology, so creating a tiny thing in Spore-like game is already a big step.
Sipho makes me think of the upcoming Moduwar which is now set for a Q2 2024 release...
I want more DarkSpore... I loved it ! I succeeded to make some pretty fun creatures by adding limbs and whatnot to those existing heroes. (also, the only healer of the game who was tremendeously useful was highly nerfed which killed the game for me)
So I wanted Darkspore in spore with the mod aaaand it didn't really work... But Spore was always that fun game where you could create funny creatures (remember Robin Williams playing with the creature creator?) and after that... it was meeeeh... the civilization stage was too fast and quite stupid, not deep enough. The space age was on the other hand, too long !
You messed around within a few solar system and then it was time to start all over 'cause it was boring. (with some weird limitation)
there are literally true spore sequels, that are actually spore titles. they only take place in the creature phase, and have a more open world rpg take with some story. but if you enjoy the creature phase of spore, they are basically that but for the whole game.
Thanks for this video.
Creature crewtor is like multiplayer spore
you should look at war of evolution, it’s a 1 to 1 spore copy but on mobile and has goofy ads that are similar-ish to Hero Wars.
Elysian Eclipse has a patreon and free demo out now
I wish they would remake EVO: search for Eden. Only make it much larger. Make the creatures have special abilities depending on body parts. Make certain pathways only enterable depending on body parts. Make certain combinations unlock unique abilities.
Spore...was fine. But it missed the mark, as seemingly based on this video, devs.
Sporeeeeeee I miss you so muchhhhhhhh TnT
Am i the only one who loved the civilization/stage 4? Really stages 3-5 were the best but i really enjoyed the bonuses that carried through that werent explicitly stated like you allies becoming stock for extra food in tribal, and your spice claims in civilization affecting your spice production rates in space.
Befriending the stronger solo guys in stage 2 was also a great achievement imo.
Thank you for the video❤😊... I was expecting ... Uhm😅 more games like Universim or even the Civilization Stage aspect but alas😮. Eh? Why? 😮 I like that in the original SPORE 😂 You need only *ONE* type of entertainment building? Cinema? Restaurant? A Tavern? Only one can be used per nation😂. This is so so funny I research this topic for😅... For... *5* Years. And there just is not a Game like Spore.
adapt seems to have a lot of potential; probably a lot more like what people were expecting out of spore in the first place, and I think wisely chooses not to go hard into the space stage or some kind of RTS/civ kind of strategy game. The creature stage in spore itself was very underdeveloped despite containing the vast majority of spore's unique identity, while the civ stage and the space stage were... I would say almost absolutely generic. Space stage didn't really do the best job taking advantage of what game it was in; the real appeal should have been terraforming and space habitats, but it was mostly trading and fighting.
either i am too high and mixing videos up or i have already seen this video. I think i remember you said the steam reviews indicator thingy before, word for word. I might be thinking about last year's video though
Yes, this is taking games I already covered in the god games list then reduced to just the Spore-likes with a couple extra games. People just don't usually watch the lists unless it's exactly what they're looking for. After I made the god games list, people were DMing me to make a Spore list. They didn't watch the god games list because they don't consider Spore a god game.
@@GamerZakh Thank you, that might be it! Sorry, I was confused cause i always watch your list videos! I totally didn't mean it as a critique, I genuinely was confused lol
Anyways, I appreciate you replying. Your reviews are always thorough, and try to be balanced, so thank you for the hard work!
@@Vaquedoso Thanks! That is really kind of you. And yeah it is confusing no worries, I didn't take it as critique. It's just some won't watch unless it's packaged just right haha
You might need to add another game to this list in a month or two 👀👀👀
Elysian Eclipse has a Free Demo!!!
May I add a game for my phone called "War of Evolution" that is also very similar to spore. I haven't made it past the tutoral phase yet but starts out just like the cell stage in spore. hopefully I get past the point where I have to do what is says and can explore it soon.
I thought you had to leave water to the next level
He was talking about what people hoped for following a demo.
Official Spore 2 soon btw
I'm waiting bro on Xbox or ps5 it can be pc but I got a MacBook and won't play it
What about Species Artificial Life Real Evolution?
That went into early access 6 years ago and the original estimate was 3 years in early access. Development keeps going quiet with minimal updates, last update was 2 years ago, so generally not a 'new' game and not something I'd be keeping much of an eye on unless it got some significant news.
People are hungry for Spore-like games
So, basically no one is even close to what Maxis did, amazing.
bring back the gameplays , i miss it
You're gonna have to clarify because my last 4 videos before this was gameplay.
@@GamerZakhyes you are right, you tube just stoped to show me your material. Nice I will check it out 👊🏻👏🏻
No matter how "good" this games are, nothing will beat something made by Maxis in its prime!
erg, saw "spore 2" and got so excited
These are our best bet right now because no way will EA ever make it.
0:35 no, not after the incident, i will NOT be playing elysian eclipse, EVER
The incident?
@@GamerZakhTHE INCIDENT!!! (?).
What you talking about
Adapt looks honey to me
I finished universim recently and got to say, while early stages were fun, once you get to the space stage its basically like a NG+ where you have your tree maxed out and can colonize a new planet to start all over again, and you can do this pretty much forever. But why would you? At that point there really isn't a point in playing anymore, space age isn't like traveling around the galaxy like it was in say spore where you could conquer the entire galaxy if you wanted but its more like jumping from one colony to the next where you get to redo everything all over again. So ultimately it was disappointing to me. Lets be honest, there probably won't be a game like Spore ever again, just because of the scope that game had. Various game devs are trying to copy parts of it, but never really go beyond and try to improve upon it. Honestly Spore itself needs a total remake, too bad that EA killed the studio
pld don't forget about Creature creator
That's pretty good, just it fully released in 2022 so it's not a new 2024 game.
@@GamerZakh I tried adapt but i installed it on demo
Cool stuff
My takeaway is: No, there still is no worthy successor.
I'll be honest, the later stages in Spore were what made the game rather boring to me. I wish they would've focused on the creature stages. The tribal stage only makes me want to play an RTS like Age of empires, The civilization stage makes me want to play Civilization, and once you get into a space civilization makes me want to play Endless Space.
It's like it's a bunch of half-cooked ideas that never feel like they're fully realized, only the cell and creature stage feel unique, and it would've been amazing if they just expanded on the creature component. They could've made huge ecosystems, and have the ability to grow your own giant creatures. In some way, I wish it was more like Evo: Search for Eden, but less grindy and fully exploring the capabilities of what the 3d environment could offer.
Thrive isn't "just" indie, it is OPEN SOURCE indie...
I didn't say "just".
It’s too bad that there’s never going to be anything from Maxis ever again since it got shut down several years ago.
I love from cell to civilization phases space is the worst
Well, in the case of The Sapling, the idea is great, but the optimization is poor and the creature building system is inconvenient and too simple (but involves several uncommonly seen, yet important features).
Are these android games because when I search it on the App Store, I can’t find it
No these are PC games, links in the description.
You gotta be kidding me
@@King_firework Why? Spore was a PC game too. Games trying to be the next Spore would start on PC.
I thought there would be good recreation of sport on normal App Store
2024 now?
2024 in 2 weeks, but you can check your calendar for when it'll be on the day.
Someone should take the Evolution online card game by North Star Digital Studios, do a little world building, create some kind of development tree, add some eye candy and you would have a fun strategy game inspired by biology.
The evolution games are fun, but most are not really scientific. Species evolve, not individuals. A species evolve according to natural selection on a geological timescale - not by eating stuff and designing a phenotype. Most evolutionary changes fail except in the rare circumstances where the changes is favoured by the changes to the environment.
I've seen a number of similar videos. I don't think I've ever been interested in this many games from one video...
Spore was such a amazing game that fucked itself with too much hype and impossible promises
Do any of us actually know what we want?
Imagine these games standing in front of War of Evolution. (I hate this game so much as it tries to replicate Spore in the worst possible way)
and creoture creator?
i require spore 2
If theye would just make spore free
Never be another spore
Most of these only focus on the cell stage...
This guy didn't research Thrive at all. He thinks they're an actual game studio and "it entered early access in 2021" while completely failing to mention it is an open source game intending to recreate all of Spore. The lack of research on this game is quite frankly embarrassing and makes me lose trust and faith in this UA-camr and the rest of this list.
It did enter early access in 2021. I never said "actual game studio". And sure it's open source and has all sorts of plans, but that's not important. Why are you ignoring the 150 month dev time plan? You think it's lack of research, but you have lack of context. I'm talking about what it is right now because how important is it right now to talk about what Thrive will be in 2034? 2034! Seriously, why did you skip that very important bit of context? I make these lists every year, if Thrive gets better then I'll talk about the new stuff. But right now for 2024, because this is a 2024 list, what it is 10 years from now is not relevant for 2024.
You don't trust me? Nah I don't trust you. You put words I never said in my mouth, lack all contextual relevance, and judge what you haven't seen based on your misunderstanding.
So there is no game like spore 🙂
You did a great job with your video but the actual games themselves don't look interesting at all. They look like paraphrased versions of the same game with the same problems.
Spore got more boring and tedious the further you went into it, but it also had more to do. Its execution wasn’t the best, that was the issue.
Cell stage had very little to do, but it went quickly so it didn’t matter.
Creature stage had significantly more to do, but it was ultimately repetitive outside of the diversity of what you were facing and the random events. Creature stage, though I’d arguably the best stage in spore as past this stage things just start getting boring.
Tribal stage wasn’t… bad, per se, just bare-bones. It was an RTS with survival aspects and different methods of said survival depending on the path you took but it was too easy and went too quick. All you had to do depending on your path was rush food, then rush weapons/instruments. You didn’t need to do anything else. Hell, you didn’t even really need to think about what weapons or instruments you gave your tribesmen, so long as you had an even mix of instruments you’d be fine and so long as you had enough weapons in general you’d be fine. The only time you faced a snag was with RNG regarding instruments, as if you picked the wrong village to go to they’d ask for instruments you don’t have.
Civilisation stage is the first disappointing stage. Every stage beforehand is affected significantly by the choices you made in the stage before. Cell stage affected what you can eat in the creature stage and also gave you potential access to unique starting parts (even if most didn’t do anything). Creature stage’s parts carried over into the tribal stage, helping you (mostly) in combat. The only thing that affects the civilisation stage is your aggression from the creature and tribal stage, the way your creature is made doesn’t affect it at all, and in fact past this point you barely even see your creature anymore. Civilisation stage goes fully into the RTS stuff, with vehicles, weapons, bases, resources, etc. you don’t need most of it though. Spam cars with weapons then rush the closest bases, ezpz.
Space stage is the most tedious and arguably the worst stage. Quests, trading, and the ultimate goal of reaching the center of the universe. All your choices leading up to the space stage don’t matter in the slightest. Doesn’t matter if you’re a carnivore, if you’re religious, if you’re aggressive, etc etc. the only thing you get from your choices at this point is a special ability and maybe some changed dialogue stuff. That’s it. You’ve still got the same goals, you can play any way you like, and the Grox are till your enemy (unless you do the work). Space stage isn’t even really that hard. You barely need to do the given quests, all you really need to do is trade spice. It’s a glorified merchant simulator. Mind you, you DO need to unlock things, via discovery and stuff but then well… Spice trading. Because you need sporebux to be able to get to the center of the universe which is the end of the game and the only goal you have (not mentioning that you can choose to continue afterwards, maybe work to defeat the Grox).
So yeah, cell to creature is the best parts of the game with MAYBE Tribal too…
respecto a thrive, (que es el que espero), según ellos podía llegar a estar para el 2028, pero con eso de 150 meses me mataste xd, pasa que ellos empezaran desde célula base "procariota" (aunque creo que talvez lo hagan de molécula) y pasaran por eucariota pero habrán edades o eras donde llegue a animal, a las tribus, civilizaciones, espacio y irán mas allá terminando en algo que tiene que ver con la cuarta dimensión, dioses en toda la escancia, las edades que nombraron son raras de mencionar no me acuerdo pero eran como 25 mas o menos, mas que el EE1 xd, por esto lo espero con ganas, pero si aun T___T van por etapa celular, y bueno, son pocos y están haciéndolo científicamente, es mas recientemente comentaron que se descubrió una nueva encima o proteína y charlaron sobre si implementarla o no.
check out the new android game war of evolution, it is almost similar to spore
Thrive sucks btw
You should be more specific
i played all of them (besides the ones that arent relased yet) and its all a CRAP of a game not even close to spore
It looks worse than spore did
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