Download.com Staff Feb 27, 2009 Docking Station is a freeware Internet-enabled version of the popular game Creatures. You play god in a small ecosystem where you watch funny creatures, Norns, grow. Creatures: The Albian Years is a compilation of Creatures 1 with both Life Kits, Creatures 2 with its Life Kit and 6 Official Object Packs; Unique gameplay centered around breeding and raising autonomous, computer-controlled Norns; A complex AI system that mimics real behaviors. From the Creatures Web site you can get info from a Norn doctor, download more tools to care for and monitor your Norns, and download more Norns. You will soon be able to get a Creatures newsletter, look through and contribute to a Creatures scrapbook and link to even more Creatures sites. Breeding Norns can get quite scientific.
Creatures, a really nice simulation game sold in 1996 for Windows, is available and ready to be played again! Also available on Mac, time to play a puzzle elements video game title.
Quil the Great2019-02-010 point Windows version
In case anyone is wondering, this game works fine on a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine in virtual box. I'm not sure about the versions here, but my old CD always worked fine.
Star2018-05-151 point
You all should look into Oracle VM and running/installing 95/98 (You can install newer) and trying the old programs. Of course these old games wont play on a non-dos based operating system. Its not that the files are broken. You just need the old system or a custom emulator. (Search for it. So many step by step walk throughs. Doesnt take too long. ) Anyways. Enjoy. Im going to check out this and other games. Im loving the nostalgia.
DAS2018-04-062 points
I miss this game so much
bee2017-08-190 point
I downloaded the pc version on my pc and the mac version on my mac. Neither of them work. Please fix, I'd really love to play this game.
Norni2017-04-180 point
Is suprised to see this game around HERE O.o
Also - does it excist in english for windows?
Effy2017-03-160 point
I LOVED this game as a kid.
Too bad the file is corrupted :c Won't let you unzip it all the way. Really looked forward to playing this again
Share your gamer memories, give useful links or comment anything you'd like. This game is no longer abandonware, we won't put it back online.
Creatures is available for a small price on the following websites, and is no longer abandonware. GoG.com provides the best release and does not include DRM, please buy from them! You can read our online store guide .
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In 1999, Mindscape, Inc. publishes Creatures 3 on Windows. This simulation game is now abandonware, you can get it here.
Screenshots from MobyGames.com
Magepalm2020-08-241 point
Ok, the patch does not actually add the offline button option to the login screen when you make a docked world. I did install Creatures 3 first, then Docking Station, then patched supposedly successfully. Yet no offline button, and it of course tries to connect to the old Creatures Labs server which has been down for what, 20 years or so now? lol.. I can't remember if the patch actually added the button or if that was a fix someone else put out years ago. I know the last 2 or 3 times over probably 5 years now that I've attempted to get this to work with Docking Station, very unfortunately I had no success ever finding that old file anywhere online. I think there was a couple forums that to access the download you had to be registered but they've long been abandoned by the mods and probably most if not all the community. I'll look again if I ever find it I will post the link and probably upload it somewhere as a back up link and include that as well. If not, I hope one day someone finds it or one of us makes our own fix lol. They basically added or modified the image file in order to add the button, and I *think* created, or again modified a 'bootstrap' or 'agent' file to make it work, which one you had to just add to a folder and the other you had to copy over the existing file in the folder to add the changes.
Levi2020-05-234 points
It doesn't let me download dirextx7 which is required for the game, but i guess its not compatible with windows 10. Am i out of luck?
hunterbad2019-01-066 points
i have a problem when i lunch engine this message pops
'NLE0007: You must specify a game name in the command line.
For example, Creatures 3 or Creatures Adventures
For soak tests, specify --autokill before the game name
to kill agents which generate run time errors.
Sun Jan 06 17:29:42 2019 - M - 1.162'
Norni2017-06-150 point
Love the Creatures series!
Is suprised to see allof them here (well,Creatures Adventure & Playground is not here)
I guess Creatures 1 is in german,but the rest is english??
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Various files to help you run Creatures 3, apply patches, fixes, maps or miscellaneous utilities.
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