Mind flayers

Creatures theme

Includes mindflayers or creatures that resemble them: tall and slender alien humanoids with 4 or so tentacles surrounding a beak-like mouth used to devour the brains of their victims (food).

games

platforms

Name variations: illithid

Angband

DOS 1992

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

WIN 2000-09-22

Heirs to Skull Crag

MAC 1993-05

Icewind Dale II

WIN 2002-08-27

Descent To Undermountain

DOS 1997

Heirs to Skull Crag

DOS 1993

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

WIN 2013-11-15

Demon's Souls

PS3 2009-02

Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark

WIN 2003-12-02

Lost Kingdoms

GC 2002-04-25

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

MAC 2001

GnomeHack

LIN 2001

Although an invention for the Dungeons & Dragons RPG, mind flayers have made appearances in other settings unrelated to D&D.

Parent groups

Cephalopoids, Dungeons & Dragons creatures, Fictional creatures

Games by year

A	1974 - D&D published

The first Mind flayers video game was released in 1985.

Beamdog, SSI and Interplay published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux		6
Windows		5
MS-DOS		4
Mac OS Classic		4
Mac OS X		2
GameCube		1
Internet Only		1
PS3		1

Most common companies