Impossible Creatures appears on Steam

If evolution was a jerk, who would win? Impossible Creatures is an RTS that lets you combine animals into monstrous new configurations, making it the only game that lets you find out what would happen you merged a whale with a scorpion and made it fight a tiger with the head of a hammerhead shark.

Before you'd have to hunt on eBay or scour Amazon for a pre-owned physical copy, now it's been "fully remastered" by Nordic games to work on modern PCs, and includes the Insect Invasion DLC pack that adds six extra maps and 15 animals. Multiplayer has been "re-implemented" to hopefully work smoothly with modern NAT setups and the SDK is included for map makers.

This is the only Relic game I haven't played (apart from Xbox 360 exclusive, The Outfit), and I can't wait to try it. It was Relic's curious experiment between Homeworlds, before the studio went on to make Dawn of War and Company of Heroes. I'm not expecting it to quite match those classics, but I'll download any game that lets me order a flanking attack with a squadron of flying whales.

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.