Darkespore borrows a minimal amount from Spore, but unfortunately borrows too much from other established genres to be considered a great game. The dungeon crawling is nothing that fans of the genre have not seen before (To be fair to Maxis, it is difficult to make dungeon crawling unique), and the squad mechanic feels very similar to Pokemon. These two aspects may not be original when considered alone, but the way that Darkspore infuses the pokemon mechanic and dungeon crawling together makes it stand out as a unique experience that is worth checking out.
Darkspore is back on Steam, following its recent removal from the digital distribution service over service issues.
In the wake of the game's removal from Steam, developer Maxis has denied claims that Darkspore has been abandoned, instead announcing that a persistent play-denying issue has been fixed after months of gamer complaints.
GameZone writes, "Electronic Arts has reached out to us to clarify some confusion stemming from a game-breaking bug in Darkspore that resulted in players unable to log-in to the game and its eventual removal from the Steam store."
