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Sparkle 3 Genesis
Developer Forever Entertainment S. A.
Sparkle 3 Genesis (stylized as The Sparkle³ genesis) is an arcade-style video game. It is the second title in Forever Entertainment's Sparkle series of video games and the successor of the 2011 video game Sparkle 2 Evo and the predecessor of the 2016 video game Sparkle Zero. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Audience score
48
Mixed
82 positive · 89 negative
95% range 41–55%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
345 of 573 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 172 · most liked firstu got one sick game bro
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I could not imagine how long this game was compared to the other sparkle games in the series. At the writing of this review, i have yet to finish all the achievements for this game as they require multiple playthroughs of the game. Unlike it's previous titles in this series, this game is much more flushed out. There are quests and even the evolution DNA is complex and interesting. If there was a best game in the series, i would rank this among the others, although the others simplicity is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You see most all of what this game has to offer within the first hour of playing and the screenshots (and especially trailer, is that even the game engine??) make it look a lot better than it actually does in motion. It's an interesting game / series, maybe more appealing to a niche market interested in microbiology, and it can be a bit charming in that it's relaxing to swim along as whatever parasite you are. You occassionally have to "save eggs" and such by swimming into or bouncing various…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's pretty good as long as you don't play it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR Avoid this abomination like the plague. Buy Sparkle 2 Evo instead. I completed 2 Evo and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I bought this expecting more of the same but I was sorely disappointed at the stark contrast. It's as if the devs sat around a table and compiled a list of ways to ruin the atmosphere of Evo. Where Evo was a gorgeous relaxing experience with a few gentle puzzle elements as an afterthought, Genesis is a brutal, frustrating, rage-inducing grind. Graphics Evo: Wide variety of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sparkle 3 is a good game but if you played Sparkle 2 before you will feel this one is not as good, I recommend to play this one first then try the 2 after to not be disappointed. Rating: ★★★☆☆
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I never thought adding a story to something would make it worse, but I stand corrected. Summary Sparkle 3 Genesis is the sequel to Sparkle 2 Evo made by Forever Entertainment. It's literally the exact same game except now it has a linear story. Throughout each of the zones, a disembodied voice gives you objectives that you have to complete to progress. These objectives vary such as protecting eggs, navigating a maze, escorting animals, etc... However, all of these objectives have one thing in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My eyes started to hurt after 5 minutes of playing this. It was too much for me plus its boring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disgusting interface, overexposed picture, poor gameplay, worse than part 1 in everything
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is absolute garbage. If your just playing for whatever and not achievements, go for it. It takes about 20 minutes to finish the game. 8 - 12 hours for all achievements. Achievement hunters - Beware. 1.) You can kill the leviathan from day 1 without upgrading. Upgrading your status does not make you faster, stronger, increase absorption range or speed. The only reason you would waste your time putting points in is for the four achievements. They literally do nothing. 2.) I have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →...That's a little mislead advertising Mostly you've to run through narrow labyrinths with dangerous traps, fail then start over again. Got through? Have some snacks. ================================================= - Virtually limited number of gene manipulation to perform. - 12 messed up levels to explore. - Similar multiple quests to complete. - Not so special class powers to unlock. - Minor fights with some monsters. - Mesmerizing ambient soundtrack that'll make you mute the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty. But ultimately boring and the bright effects hurt my eyes. I really don't like the long all-white screen transitions. Then in the game there are a lot of bloom and light effects. They look great, but gives me a headache. If you liked Sparkle 2 Evo, you'll probably like this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They give you the choice to play red, green or blue. All three with one special ability. - Green is invincible. Progress is done through quests. In lvl 3 you'll have to pass tunnels, while you constantly drift towards spikes. The walls (which you cannot clearly see) will push you back. You CAN do it, but it is definitely not fun. This forces to play "green" or become frustrated. I choose not to play this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool Game! 10/10!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring. Sparkle 3 Genesis 3/10 Heisen
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+20 SOCIAL CREDIT ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢁⠈⢻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠈⡀⠭⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠄⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣷⣶⣶⡆⠄⠄⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠄⠄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣼⣿⣿⠿⠶⠙⣿⡟⠡⣴⣿⣽⣿⣧⠄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣟⣭⣾⣿⣷⣶⣶⣴⣶⣿⣿⢄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣩⣿⣿⣿⡏⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⡋⠘⠷⣦⣀⣠⡶⠁⠈⠁⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⠃⣴⣶⡔⠒⠄⣠⢀⠄⠄⠄⡨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡘⠿⣷⣿⠿⠟⠃⠄⠄⣠⡇⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⢁⣷⣠⠄⠄⠄⠄⣀⣠⣾⡟⠄⠄⠄⠄⠉⠙⠻ ⡿⠟⠋⠁⠄⠄⠄⢸⣿⣿⡯⢓⣴⣾⣿⣿⡟⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⣿⡟⣷⠄⠹⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ +1 WAIFU ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠉⠄⠁⠄⠄⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡟⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡇⠄⠄⠄⠐⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡇⠄⢀⡀⠠⠃⡐⡀⠠⣶⠄⠄⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⠄⠰⣤⣕⣿⣾⡇⠄⢛⠃⠄⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even if you enjoyed Sparke 2, this one you will hate.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is sparkly, bright and relaxing. I find it helps me with my anxiety. It is not complicated.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →English: Just a pretty lazy game for its predecessor [The Sparkles 2: Evo]. The difficulty in leveling up is greater, but not due to improved game mechanics, a single "Boss". upon which is impossible to beat below level 30 and being a herbivore, because the movement speed of your sparkle is the slowest. As I said quite lazy and repetitive, I could not recommend this game without playing the previous game, and see the great difference between both by yourself. A predecessor that is a thousand…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →quite a relaxing game pleasing to ear and eye alike. in fact it's so relaxing and casual that there's barely any difficulty at all. but that's perfectly fine since you can hardly relax while working your fingers off and having a brain meltdown. sparkle 3 is basically like sparke 2 just with a little bit more of everything. so if you know one of the sparkle games then you know pretty much all of them. it's no masterpiece by any standard but if you just want to kill some time then go for it.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is not a bad game, but is hard sometimes. Not recommended for M/K players. This game works lot better with a gamepad, some sections require soft moves in order to get inside a place or following the game objetives. Also, these Objetives, all must be completed to get into a new zone. So, take this as a serious advice: - Buy only on Sales, or maybe on Giveaways - Play with Gamepad, the Xbox Gamepad works really good - And be patient, this game can be hard or annoying for the River sections…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I first started up this game, I couldn't understand why it had mixed reviews. It seemed pretty amazing, especially because of the music & visual design. I enjoyed it until I came to a part that I just couldn't advance past because you have an extremely narrow & curvy corridor in which you can't touch the walls (if you do you have to restart, by manually going back to the starting point) and you have to account for sudden waves pushing you against those walls at random. I've tried again…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A complete waste of time and money. After grinding my way through two of the other sparkle frustrations, I managed to summon the will power several years later to try the third iteration of the same game. You would think since this is the third title that the bugs, lack of explanation, confusion and spelling errors would be fixed. Well that couldn't be further from the truth. Things seam to have gotten worse. Only got to the second level before hitting a wall. No explanation how to progress…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seriously, screw your horrendous level design and 'Spikey River'
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sparkle 3 is a game about nomming up pellets and other floaty creatures to get bigger and better at gobbling them up.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The sequel (yes I said sequel) offers more gameplay but there are still no threats or death. The challenge however lies in punishing movement mazes. The evolution has now RPG elements, but the stats (except speed) have no meaning at all. Your species will simply look one of 3 ways, depending on your build, red, green or blue. Gone are the detailed insect-like designs and get a mare gameyfied look :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most relaxing games I have played so far. Much recommended.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THRASH: Sparkle 3 Genesis promises a microorganism simulation in which you eat, evolve and survive. It's anything but what it promises. Movement is cancerous, eating is a chore. It's a failure.[url=store.steampowered.com/curator/36549724-GEM-or-THRASH/] Click here to follow the curator: GEM or THRASH Full review: Following is the full review Sparkle 3 Genesis (2015), the second installation in Sparkle Series. [url=steamcommunity.com/id/gemorthrash/recommended/253650/]Click here to read our…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was thinking for a while, spent some time on this game, gave chances, and finally i came to my final conclusion. The reason why i am not recommending this game is because mainly, you'll be facing challanges where there is no way of avoiding/skipping it. There are some places where you will get tied up (For example the challanage where you have to cross the road avoiding spikes which tides/force or whatever is pushing you towards it, making you to fall into spikes and thus you will have to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Either pick red or spend hours trying to outmaneuver EVERY SINGLE opponent you meet that's not a brainless jellyfish. Same goes with the choice between green and getting stuck at every single tunnel mission. If you want to make achievements for maxing a monocolor sparkle at least don't make it so tedious (because let's face it, having to spend time on something doesn't necessarily make it hard) 90% of your playerbase ragequits.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Frustrating and broken. Get Sparkle 2 and pretend this mess doesn't exist.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →JFC. The level design. It's terrible. Whoever designed the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ spiky tunnels with impossibly-close obstacles that forcibly bounce your sparkle into the deadly spikes while you're trying to fight a current should be kicked in the d!ck for hours while their unborn children cry out for mercy. And why does my Sparkle have such a yawn-fest rate of picking up the food? I get it, you upgrade your sparkle and it eats faster. But it takes sooooo looooonnnggg before this is a remotely acceptable…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game bought back some memories from the game Spore. Especially, the cell part of the gameplay of Spore. Sparkle has pretty similar gameplay and some quests that you receive from time to time. These quests serve more as to explain some of the concepts in the game. The description for this game suggests that every element you eat matters, and you develop special skills. This is not true really. There are 3 skills in total and you get them based on the three elements. Whichever, you spend…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Similar to it' predecessors but unique in it's own way, they made several changes, upgrades and improvements to the game which is to be expected of a sequel, what they did here though is an improvement. We still have a super fun, casual and relaxing simulator here with RPG elements, not too hard, not too complicated with just the right amount of action, and all f that for a great price too. One big difference worth mentioning since a lot of players found it to be a negative is the fact that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty good. I received all Sparkle games within a large game bundle. You definitely see an improvement in each game, which is understandable.... This 3rd installment is by far the best and it has a good tutorial, which the other 2 didn't. Runs on Windows 10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At the right price you can have some fun, but we miss the enemies, there's no challenge at all.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Relaxing but horrible level/objective design. Worse than the previous one in the series. Nice music
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kind of cool. Reminds me of the start of Spore. Where you start as the amino acid or whatever bacteria, work your way up and gain DNA. This is pretty cool I like the layout, haven't fully played it. Shows potential. Well worth the price on a sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not Recommended
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ah, Sarkle 3 Genesis, me play and me have big thought! Game look so pretty, like sparkly unicorn in disco party. But oh no, once me start playing, me feel like confused penguin at salsa dance. Firstly, navigation be like treasure hunt in dark cave with blindfold. Me press buttons and suddenly end up in space with alien friends – me just want to find main menu, not intergalactic picnic! It's like trying to find noodle in haystack. And difficulty spike? More like mountain Everest with no…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a very low-energy, relaxing, casual game that can be played mouse-only or with a controller. It's a good game to play while doing something else. You know when you're doing something or watching something but you want to play a game or do something else at the same time. This is one of those games that is perfect to play during those moments. It's not a good game to play completely on its own with nothing else to do or watch or whatever, at least I can't imagine playing a game like this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too little gameplay variation to stay interesting for more than an hour or so.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What is most important about a good review is when it takes into consideration many factors such as price, bugs, support, immersion, intuitive gameplay, and most important intent. The intent is the one most players overlook, because while they are trying to judge a game on what they feel it "should be" they often fail to consider what it was intended for. The entire Sparkle series hits their intent perfectly. Bugs are minor, price is good, and it does not take a lot of brainpower to figure…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like a spore game. Relax music. You can earn achievements. You can get trading cards.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its an alright game, but you can get better games for free on the IOS and Android app store so not suggested.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a nice relaxing game. i like it. nice music. i liek the eat sound lol and i just like the music. 9.5/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sparkle 3 is awful. Like every release from company "Always Release Bad Games S. A." Oh, sorry, I mistyped "Forever Entertainment". So, game is basically what other Sparkle games are... with slightly different shape and color palette? It's also very tedious. At first glance, it felt like good relaxing game, but it's not. It's just mindless (and boring) movement towards "food" elements... no real challenge in that. And no fun at all. It doesn't save your progress well. Doesn't have much text,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very Promising Game, I believe the company will be Financially Quantitative in the future. Seed Generators are everywhere and these guys have been living it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →nice game to spend time with
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This should be a screensaver.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly, this game is SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult and less relaxing than Sparkle 2. Avoid if you are looking for a casual game =(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good podcast game, love it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Either pick red or spend hours trying to outmaneuver EVERY SINGLE opponent you meet that's not a brainless jellyfish. Same goes with the choice between green and getting stuck at every single tunnel mission. If you want to make achievements for maxing a monocolor sparkle at least don't make it so tedious (because let's face it, having to spend time on something doesn't necessarily make it hard) 90% of your playerbase ragequits.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the first two levels are just like a tutorial, with nothing much to do. then comes "spikey rivers" and half of the people quit (check achievements) you have to pass a small path in one go through, not really fun to do. and not relaxing at all
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome game, its a little different from second part but I do like it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This Game should be on your list if you're looking for a fun game, not to short but also easy to play. Graphic is fine and gameplay also, so if you like little games - this should be on your short list than :))
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Collected sparks like they owed me rent. Every level felt like fixing a TV with a spoon. I’m not playing. I’m serving sentence.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sparkle 3 is my least enjoyed game in the series, although they are all good. This one has added puzzle like elements in the form of a maze. It has an objective in order to complete each level. It feels more like work than fun. I won't even bother letting my kids play this one because its just that tedious. Sounds good, plays good. Looks great, even ten years later in 2025. If you liked the other Sparkle games and really want to expand that content in a slightly different direction than Sparkle…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sparkle 3 Genesis, developed and published by Forever Entertainment S. A., is a meditative and experimental indie title that shifts the Sparkle name away from traditional arcade puzzle roots and into the realm of abstract exploration and evolution. Rather than focusing on score chasing or fast reflex challenges, the game invites players into a tranquil, alien ecosystem where growth, choice, and atmosphere take precedence over urgency. From the very beginning, Sparkle 3 Genesis signals its…
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