Lemmings is a series of video games originally created by DMA Design and Psygnosis.
DMA Design developed the first installment of the series, Lemmings, which was published by Psygnosis for the Amiga on 14 February 1991, to wide commercial success and critical acclaim.
Several sequels to the game were created by various developers in collaboration with Psygnosis, and later Sony Interactive Entertainment after the former was folded into the latter.
The objective in these games is to guide a portion of the titular characters across assorted landscapes to reach an exit.
Each Lemming starts out walking forward in one direction continuously until it runs into a wall (in which case it turns around) or is assigned a skill.
[3] Each level also has a certain number of Lemmings, requiring a specific portion of them to be led to the exit in order for the player to be allowed to progress.
Lemmings established the series' gameplay formula, with each level giving the player a quantity of each of eight skills: Climber, Floater, Bomber, Blocker, Builder, Basher, Digger and Miner.
[8] Lemmings 2: The Tribes is the second main entry of the series, originally released on 26 February 1993 for the Amiga, MS-DOS and Atari ST platforms.
Unlike in previous games, skills such as building, floating, digging and swimming are consolidated into a single control, available when a Lemming picks up a corresponding item.
It features controls designed to utilize the touchscreen, as well as fully 3D-rendered Lemmings, for whom a set of costumes can be unlocked.
The game also incorporates side objectives that reward the player with an in-game currency, which is used to access the aforementioned costume items.
[26] The game features the Tribes as a set of collectible characters that are consistently released over time.
[28] An update was released in 2024 implemented a feature that allows users to create and share levels, named the Creatorverse.
[30] Lemmings Paintball is an action video game developed by Visual Science and published by Psygnosis in June 1996.