Creatures (Commodore 64 game)

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Creatures
Developer(s)	Apex Computer Productions
Publisher(s)	Thalamus Ltd
Release date(s)	1990
Genre(s)	Puzzle/Platform
Mode(s)	Single Player
Platform(s)	Commodore 64

For the PC game, see Creatures (artificial life program).

Creatures is a platform game for the Commodore 64 computer, released in 1990. It was developed by Apex Computer Productions, the company started by two brothers, John Rowlands (who wrote the code) and Steve Rowlands (who created the graphics and music). It was followed by Creatures II: Torture Trouble in 1992.

Creatures was widely regarded as one of the greatest C64 games ever made, relying on 'cutesy' graphics interspersed with very bloody 'torture screens' where between each level a single screen puzzle was presented to the player, who had to solve it (often in highly humorous fashion) or run out of time and lose the game, together with a very bloody end for the recipient of the torture.

The title of the game is the backronym Clyde Radcliffe Exterminates All The Unfriendly Repulsive Earth-ridden Slime.