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.
All these years later, could that redemption arc still happen? Extremely unlikely, yes, but not entirely impossible, because Spore is back, baby. The first update posted on the Spore website in more than five years says the game has a new team within EA and an official Discord server "where you can keep up with the latest news from the development team, participate in contests, and get to know other players of Spore."
