Unlikely sentients

Creatures theme

Includes creatures that one wouldn't normally expect to be sentient in the slightest.

7
games
7
platforms
This is more for cases where the sentience comes as a surprise and not something that's obvious from the start (e.g. humanoid aliens are usually assumed to be sentient by default).

Similarly creatures with utterly monstrous appearance are often deemed to be below sentience.

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Games by year

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The first Unlikely sentients video game was released on January 1993.

Electronic Arts and Microsoft Game Studios published most of these games.

Platforms

MS-DOS 1
FM Towns 1
X360 1
Windows 1
BeOS 1
Linux 1
Mac OS X 1

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