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
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
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Life Kit #1 |
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Life Kit #2 |
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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
Save game data location
Video
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Issues fixed
16 bits error (Windows10)
- Go into the application properties of creatures2.exe and only enable Reduced color mode and set it to 16-bit color.
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 |
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Executable | 16-bit |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm. |
System requirements
Windows 3.x |
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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
- ↑ 1.0 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