$9.99Impossible Creatures Steam Edition Build an Army of Mutant Beasts
Splice two animals into your own war creature, then command your creations in real-time battles across a 1930s island campaign and multiplayer matches.
Is Impossible Creatures Steam Edition worth it?
Impossible Creatures Steam Edition is worth it if…
- you enjoy strategy games where designing your army matters as much as commanding it
- you miss the RTS classics of the early 2000s and want one that runs on modern systems
- you like a campaign that takes its pulp seriously and its plot not at all
- you want multiplayer where your opponent has no idea what is charging at them
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Build your own monsters
Every unit in your army starts as a decision. Pick two animals from a roster of more than 50, splice them together in the Creature Combiner, and the hybrid inherits traits from both: a cheetah's legs on a rhino's body, an eagle's wings on a lizard, an electric eel's shock on anything that will hold still. The result bounces, waddles or slithers onto the battlefield, and no two players' armies look alike. Since your creatures define your strategy, designing them is half the game: fast swarms, armored brutes, amphibious raiders that cross water where enemies cannot follow. The combinations number in the thousands, and the silliest ones are often the ones that work.
A pulpy campaign across fourteen islands
The story is deliberately over the top: adventurer Rex Chance, a globe-trotting villain, and a chain of remote islands in a fantastic 1930s world. Fifteen missions take you through four distinct environments, each with its own flora and fauna, and the campaign steadily hands you new animals and mechanics to play with. The writing leans into mad-science pulp with one-liners and gags, and the story is funny in a way few strategy games manage. It is not deep, and it does not try to be. What it does is give your increasingly absurd creations a world worth saving. Expect roughly fifteen to twenty hours to see it through.
What should you know before playing?
Can you play it solo?
Yes. The campaign of fifteen missions is built for single players, and it is a substantial one at fifteen to twenty hours. You can also refine armies in the campaign and carry those same creatures into multiplayer, so solo play doubles as practice. If you would rather never go online at all, the mission editor and the included Insect Invasion content give you more to do offline.
How does multiplayer work?
Up to six players can fight in real time, and the Steam Edition has re-implemented multiplayer with NAT traversal so matches connect smoothly, plus Steam Friend invites. Base building is streamlined online: you design creatures offline, store them, and bring them to battle ready-made. Between matches you can rethink your roster, which gives the multiplayer a deckbuilding rhythm: pick your monsters, fight, then swap the ones that let you down.
How hard is it?
Yes, that is the point of the Steam Edition: it is fully remastered for modern systems and includes all patches, the Insect Invasion expansion, the mod SDK and Steam cloud support. It is a game from 2003, so the visuals show their age, though the stylized look holds up better than most games of its era.
