yeah I thought of that too when i saw a video on the game, i think the person i watched of compared it to something else but I instantly thought of spore.
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I remembered more specifically about sound effects: sometimes the sounds when receiving damage (like a squeak or squeal of a character) are one-to-one similar to the sound made by the cell receiving damage from the first stage in Spore (maybe I’ve developed suspiciousness, but they really sound mega-similar! )