Impossible Creatures Steam Edition

Impossible Creatures Steam Edition

BANGER · Strategy · 2015

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The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$2.4975% offBANGER

Cost per hourS
$0.84/hr
ReviewsS
96% of 1,854
Critics
72 players 24 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
11.9h
To 100%
18.8h 1.6x the story

Price and sales

Sales
76 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.49 June 2016
Sale every
45d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.09 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
16 now
Cheaper than
29% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

76 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Company of Heroes ($2.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic) ($14.99, scores 84).

The math says it holds its tier up to $13.45, and you are being asked for $9.99.

More about Impossible Creatures Steam Edition

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 September 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.84/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 331 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

nothing like this game...grew up obsessed with it. This needs a remake it would do really well.
RedBeardWildRecommendedafter 5.5hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
My dad introduced me to this game when I was a kid and I was hooked right away. The gameplay is pretty chill and requires a lot of thought, especially when building your team, managing resources, making upgrades and so on. The graphics aren't very pretty, but honestly, that's part of its charm !
Emeline CubiqueRecommendedafter 50hAug 2026Read on Steam
What If You Put a Shark on a Praying Mantis? There are games I remember because they were great. Then there are games I remember because there was absolutely nothing else like them. Impossible Creatures is the second kind. The Best Part Was Making Monsters The entire premise was wonderfully ridiculous. Take two animals. Combine them. Create something that nature absolutely never intended to exist. Want a lion with...
CelloknightRecommendedafter 29hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible video card with 64 MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Impossible Creatures Steam Edition scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/324680/impossible-creatures-steam-edition
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+24
Critics72
Players96
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,854 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperRelic Entertainment
PublisherTHQ Nordic
GenreStrategy
Released2015
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate