3D Lemmings

3D Lemmings
Production
Developer	Clockwork Games
Publisher	Psygnosis, Sony Computer Entertainment, Imagineer
Distribution
Release Date	PC July 31, 1995 Playstation November 2, 1995 Sega Saturn August 23, 1996
Genre(s)	Puzzle
Platform(s)	DOS Playstation Sega Saturn

3D Lemmings was a 3D Lemmings game. The levels are highly backroutable. 3D Lemmings was one of the least popular games in the series according to the Lemmings Archive.

Changes

The major change is obviously the fact that this game is in 3D!

Here's a list of a few differences between Old (The Original Lemmings, Oh No! More Lemmings, Lemmings 2: The Tribes, and The Lemmings Chronicles) and 3D:

Old	3D
The lemmings make a weird sound when you assign them something to do.	The lemmings say "OK" when you assign them something to do.
The first few levels are easy and are there for you to practice.	The game has a practice mode where you can work on your techniques.
The lemmings are thin and they walk like weird.	The lemmings are a little bit fat and they walk normally.
If you want to take a good look at the level, you go left or right.	If you want to take a good look at the level, you better practice those camera controls!
The lemmings dig, bash and mine causing damage to the structures.	The lemmings dig, bash and mine causing the "blocks" to disappear.
When a lemming blows up, it turns into confetti.	When a lemming blows up, it turns into a bunch of little lemmings.
When a lemming falls from a high place, he make a disgusting sound.	When a lemming falls from a high place, he screams in pain and explodes with his eyes closed, and his cheeks and body inflated!
When a lemming falls into a trap, you see the lemming being decapitated, tortured, etc.	When a lemming falls into a trap, he turns into an angel and flies away.
No Turner command.	Has the Turner command.
When a lemming falls, he either lives or dies.	When a lemming falls, he either lives, dies, or lives but falls crying in pain.
Annoying music.	The neatest music I've seen in a video game.
Solid black backgrounds.	Neat background with mountains, sky, and even space!
The starting point for the lemmings is large and well-expanded.	The starting point for the lemmings is a cool box.
Gets boring after a while.	You can't stop playing it!
The passwords are long and complicated.	The passwords look like names for lemmings!
When you hit the bomb button, you hear a voice saying: "Oh no!"	When you hit the bomb button, a lemming shouts "AR-MA-GEDDON!"

Story

The camera is on. Checking for trouble late at night. Everything seems normal. Suddenly, little eyes are looking out from the computer's CPU. The disk flies out of the slot and goes straight into the trash can. A lemming pops out, he is completely flat. The camera takes another look. It finds nothing. The lemming stands up and starts walking. He stops and falls just as the camera is looking at his area. The camera looks away and the lemming presses the "3D" button on the side of the computer. He pops into his 3D view. But the computer begins to shake followed by the desk! The camera looks away and the computer blows up! All the lemmings fly out and leave the room. The camera takes another look, it scans the computer site and looks at the door. RED ALERT!

Levels

Practice levels

1. Blocker
2. Turner
3. Bomber
4. Builder
5. Basher
6. Miner
7. Digger
8. Climber
9. Floater
10. Claustrophobic
11. Hi-Light
12. Deflector
13. Mud
14. One Way
15. Splitter
16. Slippery
17. Rope Slide
18. Catapults
19. Trampoline
20. Teleporter

Main levels

Fun

1. Take A Dive
2. That's Right
3. The Bean Machine
4. It's A Run Around
5. Bounce Bounce
6. It's A Blast
7. Candyland Climber
8. Lemmings Inside
9. A Short Cut Through The Forest
10. Castle Lemmalot
11. It's a Classic
12. Alpine Assault Course
13. Tower of Stone
14. Slippery Maze
15. The M-A-Z-E
16. Down the Middle We Go!
17. Hole in Ten
18. Corkscrew Digger
19. Attack of the fifty ft Lemmings
20. Alilemm's

Tricky

1. Jelly Climber
2. Which Exit?
3. This is the army
4. Fore!
5. Breakout!
6. Lemmhanger
7. Follow the yellow brick road
8. All around the watchtower
9. Land Ahoy
10. Tooten Lemming
11. A head above the rest!
12. Dot to Dot
13. Shadow Maze
14. Oh no! More Pyramids!
15. Chocolate Drop
16. Lemlab
17. Garden Maze
18. Play Time
19. Stilt Walkers
20. King Coder's Tomb

Taxing

1. Spaghetti Junction
2. Picky Platform
3. Let the race begin
4. Poles Apart
5. 3D - A Lemming Odyssey
6. Ricochet
7. If the Timing is Right!
8. Rescue Team
9. Which Trampoline?
10. It's the Name of the Game
11. Chaos Maze
12. Team Work
13. Motherboard
14. Away Team
15. Birthday Cake
16. The Arena
17. T Minus Five And Counting
18. Snake
19. Lemmtris
20. Death Slide

Mayhem

1. The Five Arches
2. Brechin's Staircase
3. Tower of Lemlab
4. Ski Jump
5. The Prisoner
6. Family Tree
7. Driving Range
8. Five Towers
9. Over the Top
10. The Hanger
11. Across The Network
12. Raiders of the Lost Lemming
13. The Catacombs
14. Jelly Belly Islands
15. Hole in One, Two, Three!
16. Fun Fair
17. Critical Path
18. Castle Peralus
19. Tuther Circus Level
20. Final Maze

Demo levels

8 level demo

1. Candyland Climber
2. Which Exit?
3. Alilemm's
4. A Short Cut Through The Forest
5. Alpine Assault Course
6. A head above the rest!
7. King Coder's Tomb
8. Across The Network

10 level demo

1. The Bean Machine
2. Which Exit?
3. Alilemm's
4. Castle Lemmalot
5. A Short Cut Through The Forest
6. Alpine Assault Course
7. Land Ahoy
8. A head above the rest!
9. King Coder's Tomb
10. Across The Network

User content

The first user content for 3D Lemmings was a single custom level, "Making One's Head Turn", created by Pooty in 2013. According to Pooty, this level was planned using Minecraft, and created using a hex editor. Although the level format was documented around this time, no actual level editor was created until namida's L3DEdit in 2019.

Trivia

• The Sweet Land style levels advertise Jelly Belly candy.