Unlike the GamesCom exhibitions, Creatures 4 has its own page on the PGW website!
Unfortunately, the English and German sites don't have any information on the game, so here's a rough translation of what's on the French site!
PGW
wrote:
The most adorable of the life sims!
You must remember Norns. In 1996, these delightful, mischievous, curious and endearing little creatures invaded our computers and invented a new genre of life with simulators. The Sims, Nintendogs, Spore, etc. today are distinguished descendants. In colonies of ten to twenty living individuals, Norns are charming, small, omnivorous and oviparous mammals, inquisitive, eager to learn and understand, and technology enthusiasts. They each have a unique genetic heritage, defining their physical predispositions, psychological and intellectual.
The crucial unique genetics is the soil in which artificial intelligence, based on the work of cognitive scientists who specialized in neural networks, will grow. Once the Norns are out of their eggs, the player becomes at once the mother, father, teacher and protector. He must seek their attention, teach them to speak, repeat causal links to guide their behaviour, their understanding of the operation of the many machines available to them, treat them, guide their choices, reward or punish them, and cross them to create genetic lines developing rare qualities, exchange Norns with his friends to create new species ... what to do with each colony depends entirely on him, and as in real life, the possibilities are endless!