Creatures

Creatures
Creatures	1996
Creatures 2	1998
Creatures Adventures	1999
Creatures 3	1999
Creatures Playground	2000
Creatures Docking Station	2001
Creatures Village	2001

General information

Gameware's Website - Useful information and downloads

Creatures Developer Resource

TreeSprite's Creatures Grove - A long-standing fan site

Creature Caves An active community complete with forums!

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Amazon.com		Includes Creatures and Creatures 2 plus all expansions for both.
GOG.com		Includes Creatures and Creatures 2 plus all expansions for both.
Steam		Includes Creatures and Creatures 2 plus all expansions for both.
ZOOM Platform		Includes Creatures and Creatures 2 plus all expansions for both.

Wikipedia details the various editions/bundles and their differences.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Life Kit #1

Essential improvements

Patches

The GOG.com version comes pre-patched to version 1.04.

Creatures Remastered Patch Adds support for official and third party addon0installers/development tools to The Albian Years, Creatures Exodus and Creatures Village titles.
1.02 Update
1.04 Update Some people have problems with this update, so feel free to stay on 1.02.
Submarine Update
Hatchery Update
Windows NT Patch Add Windows NT support to the original Creatures release

Bonus Content

The GOG.com version comes with all official DLC.

Digital Museum

A preserve of all cobs breeds, adoption, mutants, links to many archives, much information

Muppetboy's Geatville

COBs

A COB is a Creatures Object - an object in the game for either Creatures or Creatures 2, in Creatures 3 COBs are known as agents.

Creatures Village
TreeSprite
Slink's Treasures
Forestbreeze
CREATURES UNIVERSE has a ton of COBs!
The Cheese Wizard
AmberCreatures
Creatures Wiki A large index of COBs linking to other sites
Creature Caves

Adoption

You can adopt Norns that have been exported from other player's games.

Breeds

Utilities

NornVerter

Converts your creatures into a format Creatures 2 can read allowing you to export your creatures from Creatures and then import them into Creatures 2.

NornVerter

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1818340/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Creatures\Creatures
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1818340/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

*.cob and *.rcb mod files are stored in <path-to-game>

*.spr mod files are stored in <path-to-game>\Images

*.wav mod files are stored in <path-to-game>\sounds

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		As the game runs in a window it will expand as much as needed.
4K Ultra HD		As the game runs in a window it will expand as much as needed.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		The game only supports windowed mode.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed

Low Fps

Go to the compatibility options of the executable and select option run with a resolution of 640x480

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows 3.x
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	3.1, 95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 60 MHz
System memory (RAM)	8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	40 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 colours @ 640x480

Original release.

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz	1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	292 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7.0 compatible	DirectX 9.0 compatible

The Albian Years re-release.^[1]

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1818340/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1818340) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Creatures - The Albian Years - Creatures Wiki - last accessed on May 2023

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1818340/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1818340) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[2] Creatures - The Albian Years - Creatures Wiki - last accessed on May 2023

[Note 1]

[1]

Developers

	Creature Labs
Publishers
USA	Mindscape
Germany	GT Interactive
Release dates
Windows 3.x	November 11, 1996
Windows	November 11, 1996
Mac OS (Classic)	1996
Taxonomy
Series	Creatures