Disney Interactive Studios has stated that Spectrobes is its first original intellectual property; that is, a game not based on any film or TV program from its parent company.

Out on a routine mission, Nanairo Planetary Patrol Officers Rallen and Jeena respond to a strange distress signal and discover the wreckage of an escape capsule in which an old man has been in a cryogenic sleep for over a decade.

Once conscious, the man, whose name is Aldous, relays an unbelievable tale of the attack on his home planet by a vicious horde of creatures known as the Krawl.

Aldous reveals that ancient ruins found on one of the planets are actually a spaceship from an earlier civilization, and that it may be able to reach Meido.

After defeating it, Rallen fights a final Leader Krawl and kills it, thus ending the invasion - temporarily.

"[16] The Sydney Morning Herald said that the game is "Not what you might expect from Disney, Spectrobes is initially refreshing but quickly becomes dull.