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Creatures Docking Station
Raise and train a troupe of cuddly virtual life creatures that live on a Space Station. Because they have neural network brains, Norns can be taught right from wrong, but because they also have their own, individual personalities, they may not always do what you want.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
“I watched one of my Grendels beat a treehugger to death. 10/10”
— a player, Steam review · 86 hrs played“While it is a bit wonky at times when it comes to the programing (Elevators...) its a nice Simulation game for what it's time period was. So when it does work, it WORKS. Difficult to understand a bit at the start but its managabele, just look up some Mods to help fix the buggy…”
— a player, Steam review · 47 hrs played“Would be nice if it came with the tweaks to work on proton & not trigger the steam cloud issue, but those are minor inconveniences that shouldn't distract from this extremely interesting and unique free game.”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Creator Tools Update
We just set a small update for the Creator Tools live. This replaces QuickNorn and the Pose and Gait Editor with newer versions of those tools.
Creatures Community Spirit Festival
Organized entirely by the fan community, the Creatures Community Spirit Festival (or CCSF) is an online event held once a year to celebrate Creatures-related fan creations of all kinds. It all started
New free DLC: Creator Tools released.
We have just set a new free DLC live. It contains a number of official tools to help people create their own mods such as agents, breeds or even metarooms. For people who aren't as interested in doing
Update: Bramboo fix, Life Events and Autonamer+
A new update has just been deployed. The changes are as follows: - There was a bug in the Bramboo script which caused its fruit color to not work correctly when red. If the color was red, the fruit wo
Update: Muco, learning machine and dragonflies.
We have just deployed an update to add a few improvements to the game. With Steam, this update should be downloaded and applied automatically. The changes will then appear in all worlds created afterw
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Simulation, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Life Sim · Casual · Artificial Intelligence · Simulation · Cute · Moddable · Sandbox · Science · Conversation · Singleplayer · Nonlinear · Family Friendly (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, German |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 95/98 Processor: Pentium 200 MMX Memory: 32 MB RAM Graphics: A graphics card with DirectX compatible drivers DirectX: Version 7.0a Storage: 150 MB available space Sound Card: A sound card with DirectX compatible drivers (although Creatures Docking Station will work without one!)