Creatures (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Creatures

Discover a large, living landscape - the surface a world called Albia. You exist in this world only as a virtual presence, a sort of remote-control existence, which the computer portrays as a hand-shaped mouse…

70 1 November 1996

What Creatures is

Creatures was released in 1996. It is available on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Discover a large, living landscape - the surface a world called Albia. You exist in this world only as a virtual presence, a sort of remote-control existence, which the computer portrays as a hand-shaped mouse cursor. In this world are a range of locations and strange creatures, related loosely (and with considerable poetic license) to Northern myth. You begin near to the long-abandoned home of a family of Norns (small furry creatures), where a few eggs, languishing in a broken-down incubator, are almost all that remains of the Nornir race.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Creatures holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for P120 or better processor, 8 MB RAM and DirectX Compatible. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Creatures launched on 1 November 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

Creatures — frequently asked questions

When did Creatures come out?

Creatures was released on 1 November 1996 for DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Creatures?

At minimum, Creatures needs P120 or better processor, 8 MB RAM, DirectX Compatible graphics, 40 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Creatures?

The PC version needs about 0 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("40 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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