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Impossible Creatures Steam Edition cover art

Impossible Creatures Steam Edition

Relic Entertainment · THQ Nordic · 2015-11-11

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Dec 29, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.

9
playing now
96%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
77/100
IGDB user rating (23 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Impossible Creatures is a 2003 steampunk real-time strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios. Its unique feature is that the armies used in gameplay are all created by the player, and involve combining two animals to make a new super creature with various abilities. The concept was inspired by H. G. Wells' novel The Island of Doctor Moreau. The player-created armies are capped at 9 creatures; each one is a combination of any two animals from a list of 76. Many animals possess inherent abilities and players can plan units and armies to combine multiple such abilities or compensate for weaknesses. There is an extensive single-player campaign as well as online multiplayer functionality with different game modes, add-ons, custom maps, mods, and scenarios.

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  • · Top 23% of 5,887 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 46k–111k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,847 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GreenManGaming$2.50-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.50-75%
GOG$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.09 at WinGameStore (2026-07-15) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 77 of 114 observed days · $8.90 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2972026-08-11 18:00 — 25 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 9 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 13 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 28 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 14 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 24 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 29 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 17 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 29 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 24 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 27 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 16 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 14 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 24 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 20 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 20 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 9 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 15 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 13 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 16 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.80$1.092015-11-112026-08-302015-11-11 — best price $5.992016-05-17 — best price $9.992016-09-05 — best price $2.492016-12-20 — best price $2.492017-05-08 — best price $2.492017-08-10 — best price $2.492017-12-27 — best price $9.992018-05-29 — best price $9.992018-09-15 — best price $9.992019-02-22 — best price $2.502019-06-10 — best price $9.992019-09-14 — best price $9.992019-12-04 — best price $9.992020-02-14 — best price $9.742020-05-18 — best price $8.992020-08-22 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-06-14 — best price $2.502021-09-02 — best price $9.992021-12-02 — best price $9.992022-03-02 — best price $10.002022-06-13 — best price $9.992022-09-01 — best price $2.492022-12-12 — best price $2.492023-03-13 — best price $2.492023-05-26 — best price $9.992023-08-21 — best price $2.222023-11-29 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $2.492024-05-27 — best price $2.492024-09-06 — best price $2.492024-12-23 — best price $2.492025-03-31 — best price $2.502025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-10-07 — best price $2.492026-01-03 — best price $9.992026-04-06 — best price $9.992026-06-29 — best price $2.492026-08-29 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

89292026-05-31 — 64 pageviews2026-06-03 — 37 pageviews2026-06-06 — 51 pageviews2026-06-09 — 34 pageviews2026-06-12 — 49 pageviews2026-06-15 — 73 pageviews2026-06-18 — 39 pageviews2026-06-21 — 47 pageviews2026-06-24 — 67 pageviews2026-06-27 — 56 pageviews2026-06-30 — 32 pageviews2026-07-03 — 50 pageviews2026-07-06 — 44 pageviews2026-07-09 — 51 pageviews2026-07-12 — 56 pageviews2026-07-15 — 45 pageviews2026-07-18 — 68 pageviews2026-07-21 — 51 pageviews2026-07-24 — 43 pageviews2026-07-27 — 50 pageviews2026-07-30 — 63 pageviews2026-08-02 — 48 pageviews2026-08-05 — 60 pageviews2026-08-08 — 60 pageviews2026-08-11 — 45 pageviews2026-08-14 — 50 pageviews2026-08-17 — 46 pageviews2026-08-20 — 43 pageviews2026-08-23 — 48 pageviews2026-08-26 — 50 pageviews2026-08-28 — 54 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam WorkshopSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Player tags

RTSWarRetroActionSci-fiClassicStrategyAdventureReal-TimeMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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