Creatura Reviews

actually pretty okay

amazing game! very innovative, stunning and beautiful! I have greatly enjoyed messing with the different genetics, and being able to cultivate your own plants and animals, synthesizing them and looking at the various different markers in order to see what they do! tweaking your plants and animals and then selectivly breeding them is alot of fun, though i do wish there was a little more control over the animal portion itself ie the ability to sell them, killing or manage the populations a bit better would be nice too (i have a few hundred little critters cause i have an obscene number of plants and most of them are pesticide resistant at this point -_-) the different stuff you get for leveling up truly offers alot of nice bonuses to the game, and the fact that you can control everything in your environment from the color to the temperature, ph and more is just a blast! The tutorial is entertaining with the dialog between the two characters, and fairly informative as well. AND its cheap to boot! one of the happiest purchases i have made in YEARS

I think the germ of a good idea is here (pun not intended, but accepted) but the tutorial and interface are just... Painfully unintuitive. I don't think there is anything "wrong" with this game per say or anything fundamentally broken, but it's still VERY rough around the edges and needs some further refining to make it at all compelling, because you can't comfortably intuit the layout, controls or underlying mechanics of the game on your own, and to say the tutorial dialogue is...Obtuse would be an understatement. It's just plain confusing. If this really seems like your cup of tea, I think it may be worth a try in the off chance you find it more navigable than I, as there is certainly an underlying logic at play in all of this, but I can't escape the fact that understanding it is just...Awkward, really, really painfully awkward. If the devs are at all listening in, my advice is thus: Try to say more with less. Simplify your UI and go for the most basic, universal interpretation of your mechanics as possible- some buttons like the shop/sell and cut/cutting are pretty straightforward because the objects (scissors, shopping cart) are pretty universal. But it starts getting obtuse after that, and the more your new playerbase has to guess, the more likely they'll get frustrated and drop out. You've got some admirably ambitious and complicated stuff going on here, but without simplifying it's implementation, it's just going to put a lot of people off when they try to figure it all out. If they do happen to improve this, I'll happily give it another try, as I do like a lot of what is going on here, but as it is currently, it's just oblique to the point of being unplayable- and nobody wants to drop money on a game that feels unplayable, not when there are dozens of other games vying for your money and attention. If nothing else, try the demo first- you'll know whether it's something you can look past or not.

I feel that this game is truly a love-it-or-hate-it situation. If you think this sounds awesome, if it seems like something you've been looking to experience, you'll have a great time with Creatura! If it doesn't appeal to you on its face, however, you will probably find it tedious, uninteresting, and vague. This is a game where the demo is exceptionally valuable in determining whether the game is for you, so definitely give it a go prior to purchasing -- and definitely don't skip that tutorial! Overall, for those who are drawn to the premise, I absolutely recommend this. I can't think of another game tackles gene inheritance and simulated evolution over time nearly so well. It's a hidden gem!