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DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince comes to Steam®! Recruit monsters from the DQ series, synthesize new creatures and compose your ideal team.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is a rpg, jrpg and creature collector game developed and published by Square Enix.
Released on September 11th 2024 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

It has received 677 reviews of which 529 were positive and 148 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 24.20€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince into these genres:

RPG JRPG Creature Collector Party-Based RPG 3D Anime Villain Protagonist Turn-Based Combat Silent Protagonist Fantasy Singleplayer Story Rich Cute Dragons Turn-Based Collectathon Deckbuilding Medieval Magic Turn-Based Tactics

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows® 10 64-bit / Windows® 11
Processor: AMD A8-7600 / Intel® Core™ i3-3220
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 460 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750　
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 10 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2024

Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince is an amazing game, one I'm glad to play after having no DQM games for 14 years. First off, this is NOT a Dragon Quest game, it's a Dragon Quest Monsters game. It has all the charm of Dragon Quest but follows a different battle system and mechanics. It's a creature collector with a unique twist; Synthesising/combining monsters to get even stronger ones eventually making your way to the final bosses of the main series. The game features a new Reverse Search feature to help you see what you can make and a new dungeon called the Mole Hole where you can scout (catch) every monster you've ever obtained. And to touch on scouting it is RNG. You do a show of force to try and recruit your monster based on the strength of your monsters compared to the other. You can influence this by buffing your own team and debuffing the enemy but, most of the time it'll still be up to chance. You can disable autosave and savescum all you'd like, however. The story is great, it's a sort of retelling of DQ4 from the point of the antagonist, who you play as. The story starts off serviceable. Nothing special but gets the job done. But, it does get quite good. I could sing the praises of this game all day; the charm, the visuals, the music, the battling. This game does very little wrong. But, what is it that it does wrong? Well, some synthesises (?) require 4 monsters. So you need to do 2 pairs of 2 then combine the resulting pairs. Reverse Search does NOT help you here, so you need to look them up. There could be more end game, though the main story will run you 20-30 hours depending, and going for all achievements and synthesises another 10-20 on top of that. Still plenty of value. And that's it. Yes, those are my only gripes. Get this game and PLEASE give us more DQM.

Sept. 2024

I would HIGHLY recommend this as someone who has basically never touched any Dragon Quest game before this. I basically get to see 500+ creatures I've never seen before and collect them and combine them which leads to being CONSTANTLY surprised. Its something not even modern pokemon manages to do for me so FANTASTIC game for non DQ people IMO

Sept. 2024

So Far so good, the game is bringing me back to the times of grinding DQM Joker under my covers on a school night. Graphics are whatever, but not a dealbreaker. I love that there is voice acting, and the music is nostalgic with a bit of an upbeat twist. I'd recommend if you love the series, be wary things can get repetitive. P.S. This runs AMAZING on Steam Deck (Not Surprising)

Sept. 2024

In general i'm gonna slap a quick 8/10 as a long time DQM fan. The story, music, art, gameplay are all so good. I would give it a 10/10 if we had some actual post-game content similar to Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 with the random key system. The monster fusing is just as good as its predecessors and incredibly fun. RIP Toriyama and Sugiyama, it's bitter sweet enjoying some of their final works. Pros for cross platform release: 1. DLC is now included in the full price tag so we won't be squeezed again. 2. No more under performing FPS issues. The switch runs this game horribly and i'm glad to see it run at a steady 60+ Cons: 1. No online battle mode. Maybe they'll patch it in sometime in the future? I was a little upset about this at first but after really thinking back about it the online was unbalanced asf and not really fun at certain points anyway.

Sept. 2024

This game rules. I logged 90 hours on switch and I'm excited to get all achievements on steam. Same game but it runs better because PC. Late-game areas may still be unoptimized idk. (My review will be edited if there's major issues with the PC port). Another DQ Monsters banger. You scout monsters, level them up, breed them to make better monsters. The game provides a story mode progression and a CPU-control-only arena progression reminiscent of the original DQ Monsters. The story is decently long, I believe around 50-70 hours. The combat is somewhat simple, but reliably fun (fairly typical of the series). Don't listen to reviews painting this as an underwhelming alternative to Pokemon/Persona, it's very much its own experience and it's very enjoyable. The steam release includes all DLC from the switch and seems to come pre-loaded with all the switch patches. At $40, it's more than enough bang for your buck. My only complaint would be that the steam version seems to lack the online PVP battles that were on the switch and have been a DQ Monsters mainstay since the first Joker game. That said, I think the game is perfectly enjoyable just playing through the single-player content. I highly recommend giving the game a chance.

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DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince received 529 positive votes out of a total of 677 achieving a rating of 7.42.

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DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince was developed and published by Square Enix.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is playable and fully supported on Windows.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is not playable on MacOS.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is not playable on Linux.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is a single-player game.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince does not currently offer any DLC.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince does not support Steam Remote Play.

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince 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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