

Released in 2008 by an EA subsidiary called Maxis, Spore is a creature creator game that challenges players to, well, create their own creature. The only game that this intro could possibly fit is Spore. No gritty set pieces, no visceral gameplay, just wild abandon in a literal galaxy of possibilities. Therefore, perhaps it’s time to skip over to a video game that celebrates creativity above all else. From David Bowie to Prince, and Edward Albee to Leonard Cohen, humanity’s gallery of artists took a big dent this year. Not “just” because of the vitriolic American presidential election, or the proliferation of war and disease, but because we’ve lost a massive slate of mankind’s most talented creators.

Create your own creature and guide it from single-celled organism to ultimate space tyrant.Ģ016 has been a pretty rough year.
