Of course, all similarities between Spore and Spore Islands are limited to the name and the overall feel of the game – the Facebook title is far less complex, challenging and customizable compared to its full budget cousin. Still, it’s a nice play every now and then (you are not required to log in daily or every X hours to have fun playing it) and you’re going to find out a bit more about the game below!
After you create your own creature in Spore Islands, there are a few things you can do: invite a few friends over and wait for them to join or randomly create some AI-controlled creatures and hop into the wild to watch your creature in action. Here is where the strategy part comes into play: if you notice that your creature becomes breakfast for all the other creatures on the island, or dies too fast of hunger of old age, you should clearly tweak it a little bit. Increase the defense and decrease the attack (which is worthless for a full vegetarian!), make your creature faster, change its diet and so on.
Unfortunately for Spore Islands, the lack of complexity is one of its main problems and you might get pretty soon bored by the game – there are barely any achievements for you to get and just few challenges. But if you simply love to be a God and guide your creatures to total world domination, you’ll certainly have fun playing Spore Islands.