Impossible Creatures Steam Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible video card with 64 MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
June 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. 75 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic) ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III ($39.99, scores 2).
Critics scored it 72. Players sit 24 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 331 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 291 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Players
14 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Impossible Creatures Steam Edition scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/324680/impossible-creatures-steam-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Jul 31, price as of Sep 24.
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