Creatures Caves

You can let the game run and just see what happens. But in Creatures 1 the norns need a little learning advice to be able to survive. They can manage to grow adult and breed, but it is easier for norns that have been trained to do the basic things like learning how to eat, play and socialize.

In Creatures 2 norns will likely not survive without your help, too many dangers like drowning or entering an area without food.

In Creatures 3 grendels can kill your norns and they likeley will do it, only Hardman Norns and a few other breeds can defeat grendels.

In Docking Station, in an undocked world your norns will be safe. The most metarooms(Additional little worlds made by the community) are safe for norns.
The norns in Creatures 3 and Docking Station have advanced survival skills and can live without your help, if they have enough food sources and no natural enemies (Grendels)

Norns are not able to change their appearance by genetics. The only things that they can change is the way they walk and act (Pose and Gait genes) and their color (Pigment genes) They cannot develop bigger eyes, smaller ears or a second pair of arms. You can cross different norn breeds, and their offspring will get mixed body parts from their parents.
What mutations can change is their whole metabolism and their behavior.

In Creatures 1 cheese and carrots are the main food source for norns. Honey is a kind of treat, they can get addicted to it

In Creatures 3 + Docking Station they need 3 food sources. Seeds, Fruit and Fat. For example cheese, apples and tree seeds.

In Creatures 2, ah I don’t know anymore, too long ago

Which game to choose depends on what you like. When it comes to play time, I played Docking Station the longest part of my life. That is because it has so many breeds, agents(Additional Objects made by the community) and so much additional features. It has the best foundation for creativity and your personal experiments. You can also play C1toDS which is a conversion of the Creatures 1 world to the Docking Station Engine. There is also a C2toDS. Both can be downloaded from the Internet. The original Creatures 1 and Creatures 2 breeds are available for Docking Station too. It does not feel the same with the conversions, because it is a different engine, different genetics and behavior of norns, some features are missing, but it is still a cool experience.

The second most I played Creatures 1, because it was the first creatures game and I played it over 2 years until the release of Creatures 2. It has a nice art style, wonderful norns that feel so alive and cute. But it has some limitations like no real gravity, no metarooms/very few new worlds and some bugs.

Creatures 2 I played the less, because it was very hard to play and buggy at the beginning. The world is very dangerous and the norns can easily die. It has nice graphics too, a huge world but frustrating. The game can get extremely laggy and I don’t know if it is playable on Windows 10 + 11 anymore.