Monster Sanctuary on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Monster taming meets metroidvania. Collect, train and battle monsters in a lovely side-scroller pixel world.

Monster Sanctuary is a creature collector, pixel graphics and metroidvania game developed by moi rai games and published by Team17.
Released on December 08th 2020 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 11,439 reviews of which 10,468 were positive and 971 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 0.96€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Monster Sanctuary into these genres:

Creature Collector Pixel Graphics Metroidvania Turn-Based Tactics Singleplayer Turn-Based Combat Exploration Fantasy Adventure JRPG RPG 2D Strategy PvP Difficult Indie Story Rich Turn-Based Platformer Side Scroller

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Dual-Core, 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB, Radeon HD 4870 512 MB
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: Windows Compatible Sound Card

MacOS

OS: MacOS Mojave 10.14
Processor: 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphic 4000 or Equivalent
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Processor: Dual-Core, 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB, Radeon HD 4870 512 MB
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

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May 2025

I recommend this game to those who enjoy the ability to synergize their teams. Contrary to Pokemon, this game heavily relies on stacking a ton of passives onto assigned roles for their monsters. A good example is one attacker, one combo builder, one healer/shielder/buffer. It can be frustrating in late game when boss fights, the legendary keeper fights, or 6 starring champion monster fights, where they each have their own unique team recommendation, spending money into upgrading different equipment for each individual team for each individual purpose. I came out with one team for specialising in defeating champions, another for the legendary keepers, another for story, and another for the infinity arena. The most challenging aspect I found when playing is not knowing if a team will reliably work or not, due to the RNG of the buffs/debuffs. For the legendary keeper fights, it felt like they stacked one too many debuffs enough for me to survive long enough to dispel them all, and yet somehow I could never reliably apply that many onto them myself. So I had to change my teams, spend more hours into figuring out who is good with what. I didn't like when the team would work out after redoing the same fight multiple times, taking out different monsters, due to the RNG aspect. Overall 7/10 game, the 3 points are for how specific the fights must be. I wish they were a little more laxed. You either demolish a team, or get demolished and have to adapt to that fight, just to adapt somewhere else down the line, unless the team was built for that purpose.

April 2025

It's a fun game that I won't finish. I definitely recommend folks check it out. However, it's worth knowing that there's a fair amount of grinding and the game is centered around building synergistic teams to counter specific fights/areas. This is not a game where you can pick a party full of mons you like aesthetically and then coast on that team until the end of the game. Ultimately, I'm held back by my lack of patience and general unwillingness to rebuild my team repeatedly over the course of the game. If there were no barrier to swapping the party around (leveling, shifting, skill resets, etc.) I'd be more interested in just trying out a bunch of different strategies. It's also worth noting that the story is pretty dull and exploration abilities are tied to collecting mons which will be inhibited if your strategy/synergy is subpar and you cannot get eggs as rewards from 4-5 starring fights.

Dec. 2024

One of the best Monster/Creature Battling Games out RN. Difficulty is pretty good overall, some points can be decently Challenging. There is only 111 monsters, but the amount of variety you can make a team with is honestly insane, ALL monsters are viable, which is a Big Plus IMO. If you like Creature Collecting/Pokemon I would HIGHLY recommend this.

Sept. 2024

Such a good game. Easily worth the full price imo. The team building and exploring are where it's at for me. Story is kinda mid but better than what you find in certain other popular monster collector games. The entire game seems designed around maximum fun with minimal hassle. There's no carry capacity, storage limits, no need to run back and heal, and yet somehow it remains challenging enough to reward putting effort into your strategies and gear setups.

July 2024

Its such a pity because I know I would of absolutely loved playing this as a kid. The premise is so simple yet unique, tame monsters, use them to battle other monsters. collect them when you win and train them to get stronger, gotta catch em all , why didn't anyone think of this before ? Fortunately I'm still a child trapped in a 40ish year old body so its not really an issue enjoying this much more then I probably should.

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Monster Sanctuary is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

Monster Sanctuary is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.

Monster Sanctuary received 10,468 positive votes out of a total of 11,439 achieving a rating of 8.90.

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Monster Sanctuary was developed by moi rai games and published by Team17.

Monster Sanctuary is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Monster Sanctuary is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Monster Sanctuary is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Monster Sanctuary offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Monster Sanctuary offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

There are 2 DLCs available for Monster Sanctuary. Explore additional content available for Monster Sanctuary on Steam.

Monster Sanctuary does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Monster Sanctuary supports Remote Play on Phone and Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Monster Sanctuary 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.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Monster Sanctuary.

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-75% 19.99€ 4.99€

-96% 19.99€ 0.96€

8.9

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971

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164

Developer

moi rai games

Publisher

Team17

Release 08 Dec 2020

Platforms

Remote Play

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