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Creatures 2

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Creatures 2
Creatures 2 cover
Developers
Creature Labs
Publishers
Mindscape
Release dates
Windows September 30, 1998
Windows 3.x September 30, 1998
Taxonomy
Series Creatures
Creatures 2 on MobyGames
Creatures 2 on Wikipedia
Creatures
Creatures 1996
Creatures 2 1998
Creatures Adventures 1999
Creatures 3 1999
Creatures Playground 2000
Creatures Docking Station 2001
Creatures Village 2001

General information

Creatures Wiki - community encyclopedia
Gameware's Website - Useful information and downloads
TreeSprite's Creatures Grove - A long-standing fan site
Creatures Developer Resource
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows 3.x
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Includes Creatures and Creatures 2 plus all expansions for both.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Creatures and Creatures 2 plus all expansions for both.
Windows
Steam
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Includes Creatures and Creatures 2 plus all expansions for both.
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Includes Creatures and Creatures 2 plus all expansions for both.
Windows

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Life Kit #1
Windows
Life Kit #2
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

  • Gameware's Official List of Creatures 2 Patches and Bonus content. GOG.com and ZOOM Platform versions come with the latest patch pre-installed.

Mods

As the Creatures series gets older and websites fade out of existence, the great amounts of user content is slowly fading away.

COBs

A COB is a Creature Object. This refers to any object in either Creatures 1 or Creatures 2.

Adoption

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

Breeds

Worlds

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1818340/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Creatures\Creatures 2
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1818340/pfx/[Note 1]

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
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

16 bits error (Windows10)

  1. Go into the application properties of creatures2.exe and only enable Reduced color mode and set it to 16-bit color.

Low FPS

  1. 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
Executable16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.

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


Notes

  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.

References