Creatures (Windows 3.1, 1996) [Gameplay]

Creatures is an artificial life (alife) simulator series, created in the 90's by English computer scientist Steve Grand whilst working for the Cambridge video games developer Millennium Interactive. The first game in the series was released for Windows 3.1 in 1996.
Gameplay focuses on raising alien creatures known as Norns, teaching them to survive, helping them explore their world, defending them against other species, and breeding them. Words can be taught to creatures by a learning computer (for verbs) or by repeating the name of the object while the creature is looking at it. After a creature understands language, the player can instruct their creature by typing in instructions, which the creature may choose to obey. A complete life cycle is modelled for the creatures - childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and senescence, each with their own particular needs. The gameplay is designed to foster an emotional bond between the player and their creatures. Rather than taking a scripted approach, Creatures series games were driven by detailed biological and neurological simulation and their unexpected results.
Creatures is a biological simulation. You start with six eggs of Norns, cute little creatures who live in an imaginary world. Your task is to give them knowledge about the world they live in, learn them how to speak, how to use toys, an elevator, how to eat etc. They will eventually grow older, reproduce themselves and die. The game uses its own genetics system, as well as biochemical and neurological calculations to determine the evolution of Norns and the way their DNA would develop in their descendants.
Gameplay video of the first Creatures game from 1996. There were six major Creatures releases from Creature Labs.
This game (combined with Creatures 2) was later re-released in 2004 as "Creatures : The Albian Years".
You guys still remember the original creatures from 1996? Let that nostalgia kick in ;)
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[@ayoutubesubscriberhore9285]

I remember playing this as a kid and not knowing what the fuck is going on.

[@Rissespeaces]

FACTS

[@CrabsMcCrabspants]

I'm playing this as an adult and I don't know wtf is going on. Lol.

[@kendallthiede373]

Me neither! It was hard to figure out.

[@magicalp0wers788]

Lmaoooo

[@thenerdylion]

Omg 🤣🤣 ditto!

[@terrylcoffel6797]

I was just cleaning my house and thought of this game. I'm 32 and this is dropping a HUGE nostalgia bomb on me! 🥰

[@rebeccac3692]

I remember loving this game and being freaked out by it in equal measure

[@Wrathmizzy]

When I was a kid I these things seemed so alive! I treated them like my babies! Could never get really far, but I loved petting them.

[@1983simi]

I was too obsessed with this game. like the sound effects still trigger something in my brain

[@DecadentMinis]

Same! I'm having a nostalgic mind blowing rn lol

[@destineehart5589]

I used to spend hours playing this as a kid, not even knowing what I'm doing but just going with it. Nostalgia at its highest 🙌

[@hatorokku22]

I've been trying to find the name of this game forever! For the longest time I thought I just imagined playing this game lmao

[@fullyimmersed6663]

I know rightt!! So sad that everybody forgot about tjos amazing game!! Im debating making a video about it but since nobody remembers it Idk if people will watch >.

[@hatorokku22]

@@fullyimmersed6663 never know if ya dont try :)

[@Liace159]

@@hatorokku22 Wow, can't believe that.. Exactly the same for me here.. And the fact that your last comment was 5 hours old at the time I write mine and this game is from 1996 is blowing me out haha ! Ho and btw I don't know if it is you on your avatar pic but in this case you look gorgeous, just saying 😏

[@NaphtaliMarie]

@Newdill, you can purchase it at Gog.com. There is still a community online.

[@randomcitizen3939]

Same!!!

[@DecadentMinis]

Omfg I'm screaming! I FINALLY FOUND IT! I've been looking for this game for decades! I completely forgot the name of it but i never forgot how happy it made me feel when I hatched an alien egg! Thank you so much for this video you've brought back so many happy memories. I really needed this today ☺️❤️

[@merymariasmile]

Hi! where did you found this game? I'm trying to found it but I don't :(

[@waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa9739]

Honestly this game was so ahead of its time. Just the graphics and the sound design alone are incredible, and not to mention this is technically one of the first accessible AIs (you could teach the creatures a database of words and make them associate words with different things). They had a full-on simulation of their organisms and genetics, with different environment factors impacting it. This game is pure genius

[@Kajotex]

I remember playing this, as well as the two sequels. I think this game alone was responsible for planting the idea in my head that games can be more than shooters or rpgs or puzzlegames. Games can be without a "win" state. Games can be weird. And it fired my love for indiegames. I still find this game fascinating. Also I distinclty remember there being a bug in the original version of this game that made pressing a button release happyness hormones, which lead to norns getting addicted to using elevators almost to starvation. Boy did they get high. :D

[@KsylsR13]

This brings back some nostalgic feelings, I always loved the music it so calming.

[@nuggetsboi_mikaboop3940]

This is literal childhood to me and my sisters

[@Silence.Mortal]

I remember my moody teenage cousin playing this and I asked what it was and she refused to tell me or let me have a go. I watched over her shoulder mesmerised and all these years didn't know what it was. I saw a small clip of this game in Nostalgia Nerds mopy fish video. I feel complete.

[@yeseniapenate150]

It took me 17 yrs to find this game. Love watching you play.

[@okzoomer5728]

The synth music wanders in my head from time to time and makes me feel peacful and nostalgic. I was five in 1999 when I first started playing this game. for its simplicity the setting is still highly immersive

[@WillieWagglestick]

Oh i'd forgotten all about this! It was lovely. I played this a lot when I was a student.

[@TNJX]

oh god the nostalgia of those sounds at 2.40!

[@littleleafyleaf]

Thanks for uploading this!! Brings back memories, all the sounds! I remember growing veggies and teaching my norm thing to talk haha

[@ashcatchum]

Thank you for playing this without any stupid commentary the other channels were driving me nuts :)

[@elizaaajane]

This was easily my favourite game growing up... I wish I could play it again but I dont know how I'd get ahold of it

[@Diotallevi73]

You can find it on GOG.

[@elizaaajane]

@@Diotallevi73 you're a legend! Thank you :)

[@ashcatchum]

Roman what’s GOG?

[@OldGenGamersNation]

@@ashcatchum Good old games where they try to update old pc games to run on modern hardware

[@chrissysonicutdrloz]

whole series is on Steam now

[@magicalp0wers788]

Omg my brother just reminded me of the game and I completely forgot about this masterpiece until now. Now that I think about it, I miss this game terribly. It was one of the few games that I actually became addicted to.

[@BloodSweatandFears]

I remember being a kid and having absolutely no idea how to work this game but I would still mess with it and pet them and feed them for hours!

[@rel_9602]

Imagine a remake of creatures with modern technology standards

[@destinybobestiny]

I really wish someone would pick it up!

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

Peter Molynox

[@millivilletoys463]

I totally loved messing with the lifts.

[@malafob]

Wow never thought I would see this again. Played with my buddy in my childhood. What a blast!

[@mind-of-neo]

This is one of the most beautiful games i've ever seen 😭

[@destinybobestiny]

It was ahead of its time for sure!

[@ShiruKitty]

i miss this game

[@destinybobestiny]

I just bought it on Steam a couple days ago for like 7 bucks.

[@ShiruKitty]

@@destinybobestiny nice win

[@oauabei]

this game would deserve a remake for mobile devices

[@stefincanada]

I still don't get it

[@Bludvarg]

This, Dinosaur Safari (1996), Earthworm Jim and Sonic CD PC, then shortly later Baldur's Gate...I had more PC games growing up than I thought.

[@madz6074]

Unlocked a deeeeep memory

[@L3ttucePr3y]

I remember playing this when I was soooo young on my dad's computer. I had no idea what was happening but I thought the norns were cute. God damn, nostalgia hard.

[@accountname8819]

warm atmosphere!

[@HoneyBee_1337]

Been trying to figure out the name of this game for 3 days now. Never been so happy to find a KZbin video before lol

[@PahaLukki]

To this day, this is the weirdest game I have ever tried to play. I still to this day have absolutely ZERO idea what you do in this. But it looks cool.

[@jeneldridge2580]

Used to love this game!!

[@pickles3128]

My version of the game came with a stuffed Creature. Kind of like a Beanie Baby as those were the craze around the mid to late 90s. Anyone know which version this was? I want to say the intro with the developer had a blue spider... but that might have been Zoo Tycoon or Roller Coaster Tycoon.

[@BatterMontaguemusic]

Creatures 2 came with the beanie plus i believe

[@crzzymnn911]

I liked playing this as a kid even though I had no idea what I was doing

[@J1995M]

I swore this game only existed in my mind but here it is.

[@WhisperzVerse]

omg i loved this game so much!

[@pandaofrage9385]

Shinto! Yabi! I loved this game!

[@NFM333]

wow childhood memories, good times.

[@elhayymcampbell]

😢🎉good times miss it so much

[@Lapusso650]

It’s been said before, and I’ll say it again. KZbin is the closest thing we’ll ever have to a time machine.

[@Anthonyvideogame]

I used to play this game as a child

[@paulmcnally704]

I remember getting this game and having no idea wtf to do lmao, before KZbin ha

[@somniloquous0]

I never knew (or maybe forgot) C1 ran on Windows 3.1 - it seems ridiculously advanced for pre-95 Windows!

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

Does it need 32bit extensions? It seems to be 2d. Now I think that the windows driver could not deal with transparency? You load a png with your own code and have to translate into bmp. But I think that RGBA was supported. So this game needs a modern graphics card despite the old OS.

[@americantallnose]

shoot I had this for ps1 and I think I had ordered it from a catalogue and waited weeks for it to arrive. My creatures just kept going off and poisoning themselves and dying I was so pissed

[@Joellarainbow]

They should remake this game, i bet it would be a big hit

[@cookiechi2555]

does this work with the Albian years collection that comes with C1 because I have been trying to do this for a while on the 95, but it didn't work because I directly copied the main creatures file and when the game runs I get an error that says that the server execution failed; now note that I am doing this through a dos emulator. I am also wondering if you managed to do this with windows 3.1 through dos and the reason being is because i have DOSBox on my ios and it would be awesome to get this to work!!!

[@dosdaysareover7781]

brandon Kokichi I ran it on dosbox and windows 3.1

[@cookiechi2555]

dosdaysareover 😨 CAN You please tell me how it is done, id love to know how you did this, because i always seem to fail at it

[@maiby4655]

Poor creatures I used to do so bad experiments with them as a child :') Like leaving the PC on and go away and si what's happening after a few hours. Or I used to beat some of them when they were especially ugly and annoying......

[@BilltheFifth]

Nostalgia....

[@teabagNBG]

my cousin had this game lol i can remember at this time there also was x files :D

[@AQ4life81]

I wonder if this game still exists? I would love to play it again ❤❤❤

[@leah2165]

Yes it still exists! Looks like the current developer is still updating it too, last updated this past November :) the $6 one on Steam!

[@Plexpara]

i was so in love with the game. allways was a fan of AI. and played all parts. they should do a new version of the game

[@gundalfgunner]

i always played the game with my best school friend at the time

[@13AnimalLuva13]

👍

[@ashleeldixon]

i wish i could play this game again!

[@LeadMuffins]

You can, it's on steam, but you probably won't enjoy it for more than a minute or two.

[@SpxderTom]

YES

[@Squish888]

This and pinball at my dad's office.

[@accountname8819]

the screen seems stretched

[@elhayymcampbell]

#nostalgia

[@JJBinks-er1zd]

16:46 Steam chat notification sound?

[@stephanieclardy7891]

omg i use to spend hours on this game

[@destinybobestiny]

Other kids had friends, I had norns.

[@lunarkitty6786]

Любимая игра детства) сколько я рыдала, когда она поломалась из за перенаселения, а как починить я не знала.

[@AllProductReviews]

This game is why I hate permadeath games today.

[@kimberley9346]

I remember the graphics being so much better than this 😂😂😭

[@Gymco3]

👍