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An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!

A Monster's Expedition is a puzzle, open world and adventure game developed and published by Draknek & Friends.
Released on September 10th 2020 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 1,386 reviews of which 1,321 were positive and 65 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 4.49€ on Gamivo.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7+
  • Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card, Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.14+
  • Processor: 64bit
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card, Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 20.04+, SteamOS
  • Processor: 64bit
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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July 2025
LOGical puzzle with no anaLOG Monster's expedition is my new favorite sokoban game. Previously that title was held by Stephen's Sausage Roll, but it gets beaten in almost every aspect. They are somewhat similar so I can't help but compare the two: Expedition has better learning curve, starting from too easy and ending in very difficult. There is often something to do or discover even if you get stuck in one area of the map. And the areas don't feel like prerequisites to each other as they explore different mechanics. Sausage is more linear, starts harder but does not get way more complex. The mechanics are also simpler, but deeper. Sausage had puzzles with several elevation levels, here everything is done with just two, but it is explored way better: things interact, combine, move, shift and transform. The goal was clear there, but figuring out what is required to progress is part of the puzzle, and sometimes it's the most difficult part. In Sausage, you just grill. The humor is better too. Sausage aesthetic can be viewed as something funny, and it had some story, but here we get pieces of human lore as a reward for progression. At first I thought it was a misinterpretation of our civilization by aliens, but things got weird. Better discover them yourself. Most importantly, it has open world, so all the puzzles are part of one area and not levels inside a map. I'm still not sure how it manages to hold together without breaking, and I don't remember this being done to such quality anywhere else. The puzzle pieces themselves are simple - logs - but have more depth than sausages, in spite of similar shape. This needs to be studied. I expected it to be similar to "A Good Snowman is Hard To Build", and, to some extent, it was. But while I spent 3 hours on that game, I finished this one in 75. Speaking of Snowmen. This game has one of the best advanced puzzles, and each one was a joy to uncover, along with some small personality. All can be done without guides, following game rules. The game has hint system, but I haven't used it. And there is even more depth to it, like uncovering unintended solutions, I even found one! By the end of the game it will be testing the mechanics, intentional and not, to the limit. The only downside is a global map, viewed from afar it lags and just does not look good. Otherwise, it is a perfect game, best in its genre.
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June 2025
The concept of a puzzle game being 'relaxing' (without being downright easy) seemed like a contradiction to me, but I get it with this title. In most puzzle games, you chug along solving puzzles, eventually hitting a wall when you get stuck on some puzzle that needs to be completed to progress. Then, you choose between either i) bashing your head against the wall until you finally solve it, ii) looking up the solution and cheating yourself of some of the fun, or iii) quitting the game for the day (or possibly forever)! What stood out to me in this game, was that it took me ~20 hours to clear the main game (doing a ton of side puzzles along the way- it took me a while to finally notice the game gave hints about which puzzles to do to reach the end of the game, and even then, when I got stuck on those puzzles I'd swap over to side puzzles for a while), I never once hit the point where I needed to look up a solution to a puzzle. The most I needed to do was occasionally use the hint feature, which I think is one of the better hint systems in a puzzle game (it tells you the goal condition for the island, but not how to get there). Based on the experience of the main puzzles (I am yet to finish all of the side and bonus puzzles, but I have done a fair number of each so far), this has been one of my favourite puzzle games yet. I'd strongly recommend this to anyone who enjoys puzzle games, especially if you tend to find sokoban-like games frustrating and are on the fence due to this game being about 'log rolling' (which is actually quite distinct from block pushing).
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June 2025
Really exceptional puzzle game. For the main story (and the museum-exploring portion of post-game) it's almost like a lighter Stephen's Sausage Roll - a fairly straightforwards at first set of block-pushing mechanics that evolve creatively over the course of the game, adding new mechanics not by adding previously unseen objects but instead having the existing objects and mechanics interacting in increasingly complex ways, and that impressively keep you surprised with new interactions all the way through the game. It leads to a real sense of discovery to the puzzle solving. But it's largely at a very user-friendly level of difficulty (not super hard, but definitely not too trivially easy) that keeps it very engaging. My main criticism would just be that there's a few too many islands (mostly throughout the mid-to-early main game) that can feel like filler, where it pretty much just feels like a puzzle you've already done and that there's not exactly anything new you're picking up on or exploring. This gets better as you get further through the game and into the post-game stuff, however, as the increasingly complex mechanics allow for more and more interesting interactions to create puzzles from. Also - and this isn't a really a strike against the game at all to me since I had 20+ hours of great playtime before ever really trying to engage with this part of the game - there's another set of post-game puzzles about that for me are just a bit too hard/annoying in the wrong way. What I enjoyed about the rest of the game is the self-contained creative puzzles where you understand the pieces you have to work with and the goal and it's the rest of it you have to figure out. These other post-game puzzles just felt way too much like staring at a huge area of land around where you're trying to reach with no real idea of where you're meant to even begin, so I stopped even trying fairly quickly, even if the few puzzles and solutions I have seen seem somewhat interesting. But I totally get why they're included and see why they might appeal to people, and can applaud that they're so clearly telegraphed in-game as being in this separate category of puzzle so that players can enjoy completing what they want to and judge themselves what they'd enjoy.
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April 2025
This is the most fun simple game I've ever played. No major plot, just genuinely relaxing. First goal is to go from island to island and get back to the ferry, second goal is to see all the exhibits, and the best goal of all is to hug all the snowmen. To do so, the game allows you to use very simple rules to create complex setups in order to move from location to location and get where you need to go. I beat this game with zero guides, and I genuinely feel like it helped my creativity and logic skills to beat it. I'm going to recommend this game to just about anyone who enjoys relaxing puzzle games. 10/10.
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Feb. 2025
I'm a sucker for a good puzzle game that explains the mechanics through the puzzles themselves. This is one of those games. Some puzzles I ended up brute forcing and then had to work backwards to figure out why a solution worked. Sometimes, this is when it was trying to teach me a new quirk of the mechanics I never considered, or it was a case where I was just overthinking. Generally, though, I was able to use my expanding understanding to solve things intuitively. And the game generally does a great job telegraphing the intended goal of each island, which helped a lot. I also like when a puzzle game isn't level-based or when it feels like a cohesive game space, which this does by the nature of it being open world. I never felt too frustrated with the puzzles because of how calm and relaxing the vibes were. The way this game strings you along island to island was really well done and got me interested in uncovering more and more of the map. This is one of those games that sucked me in, playing every day until I rolled credits. The biggest downside for me was the underlying story and theming, which, although cute, were mostly uninteresting.
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A Monster's Expedition is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

A Monster's Expedition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

A Monster's Expedition received 1,321 positive votes out of a total of 1,386 achieving an impressive rating of 9.02.
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A Monster's Expedition was developed and published by Draknek & Friends.

A Monster's Expedition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

A Monster's Expedition is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

A Monster's Expedition is playable and fully supported on Linux.

A Monster's Expedition is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for A Monster's Expedition. Explore additional content available for A Monster's Expedition on Steam.

A Monster's Expedition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

A Monster's Expedition supports Remote Play on TV and Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

A Monster's Expedition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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A Monster's Expedition
9.0
1,321
65
Game modes
Features
Online players
14
Developer
Draknek & Friends
Publisher
Draknek & Friends
Release 10 Sep 2020
Platforms
Remote Play
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