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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.
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 2.13€ on K4G.
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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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The early game is pretty terrible. It's not great to look at, the music is pretty mid, the monsters aren't very interesting and the level design is very bland. The dialogue is especially egregious, where every living NPC is standing there to explain exactly one concept of story or gameplay and have nothing else going for them at this point. The one thing that kept me going was seeing my starter monster's skill tree and monster journal sprite, which hinted at both more gameplay depth and art talent down the line. I was right to keep going. Every aspect of the game drastically improves as it goes on. New characters start talking to each other according to their personalities, move around the map and play a role in the wider story. The environment art gets nice to look at. The music becomes actually enjoyable and match the area's vibe. The combat opens up with dozens of more creative monster designs with delightful pixel art animation, each with several skill trees including unique skills that combo with other monsters and everything. It slowly builds up to getting all the basics right. What sets it apart however is the scoring system. In this game, you don't capture the monsters. You kill them and they drop eggs you can hatch. This means you don't have to get their health as low as possible to increase the odds of successfully capturing them, like SOME other games (cough). You can go all out and not worry about accidentally killing them off. In fact, that's how you get them on your team. When you finish a fight, the chances of looting rare items (including the slain creature's egg) increases with your score. The main factors towards scoring are : - Healthiness (how close to full health your party is at the end) - Speed (how few turns you took to win) - Element advantage (including a large variety of elemental debuffs, it's not just damage multipliers) - High combos (that's a whole system explained in game I won't get into in this review) Long story short, if you finish the fight quickly without taking too much damage while using the game's systems to your advantage, you can 100% GUARANTEE a capture with no RNG involved. It's great. The single point of frustration one might have with this system, is that defensive teams are pretty bad because fights are longer, not only taking more time per fight but also reducing your odds of good loot, meaning you need to grind a bit to catch up compared to acing your fights. Its designed to make attrition a bad strategy, which some players might dislike. A detail that might be important for some : Your character's gender is dictated by its body type, but all outfits are unisex, and you can change your body type along with your outfit for free and at any time at the tailor. Characters in the game update the pronouns they use for the player accordingly. Overall, it has rough edges especially for the environment art and music (even outside the starting area), but it's actually really good stuff. There's A LOT of choices you get to make on how your monsters fight based on gear, skilltrees, upgrade items, variants, team composition and more. It's pretty long with many surprises along the way. Maybe a bit steep at 20€ given its faults, but an absolute steal on sale. EDIT : Yeah, no, it just keeps going. 20€ is actually good value, ngl.
Never in my life have a played a game as balanced as this, maybe Slay the Spire. Genuinely every single monster in this game is viable with the right combination and setup. It's a refreshing deviation from Pokemon, where you understand some mons are straight up better than others and some are almost unusable, let alone pre evolutions which don't even become a real mon until halfway through the game. This game takes everything great about Pokemon and strips its worst aspects away, leaving a smooth battle system and playthrough (xp is also doled out so ingeniously and fairly I couldn't believe it either, having played countless Pokemon games that mess it up every time). Amazing game.
Everything about Monster Sanctuary feels like it was crafted with a reverence for the genres it melds into a perfect slice of indie gameplay. Every bit of this is a joy to play and it genuinely irritates me I'm only now discovering this game five years on. The Metroidvania aspects are both breezy and precise, while giving me a meaty world to explore and tons of secrets to find. If I have one complaint about the game, it's that those secrets often feel fairly inconsequential, usually hiding crafting material or potions of some kind. It's a very minor blip compared to the fun and ease of exploring the colorful world. In a similar vein, the turn-based RPG combat also fulfills a need in me for old-school RPG mechanics. Monster Sanctuary doesn't try to put on airs. There are no timers, no hybrid action-RPG elements, no parry systems to drag the experience down. This is meaty old-school hackin' and castin', and the myriad of abilities your monsters have at their disposal make it all fun. And the leveling mechanics... the leveling mechanics! Someone designing this game understood the deep, insane need in me to have skill tree options. Lots and LOTS of skill tree options. And that's not all - every skill point spent feels like it's important. The game is pretty easy to breeze through, so there are no real "wrong" options when it comes to your team and choices in how you level, but making smart choices makes the whole experience sing, and watching synergies play themselves out is a feeling I rarely get from RPGs anymore, and this game delivers it by the truckload. If there's a sequel, and i hope there will be someday, all I want is more. This is a blast of a game, an easy 10/10 from me, and I'm still whapping my forehead that I've missed the fun this long. Go play this game. It is digital cocaine. It is an angel with the attributes of Grace Boor giving you a massage and kissing your neck. It is everything I didn't know I wanted out of a Metroidvania/turn-based RPG, and I'm hopelessly, delightfully addicted to it.
Monster Sanctuary's serviceable but not flashy presentation and occasionally strange creature designs I think make a lot of people write it off without too much thought, but I can't stress this next part enough: it probably has the best gameplay of any creature collection game period. Monster Sanctuary does this in a rather simple way: it focuses on the creatures. While many games, not unreasonably, tend to share a lot of attributes in how their monsters function and define them by minute stat differences, and the occasional fully unique attack or passive ability, Monster Sanctuary outright gives all 111 creatures in game entirely individual skill trees. More than just having a unique combination of attributes, every creature in Monster Sanctuary is specialized to do specific jobs that only they can truly do. This doesn't even really come at the cost of choice, either. You can't take every single option on the skill tree so choice is still a fundamental quality, and there's often times obvious differences in potential builds. A creature might both have powerful support tools on one side of the tree and powerful offensive ones on the other, and it's up to you which one you feel fits your team better. The other genius part is the way combat flows. Monster Sanctuary almost feels like a blueprint for the build and synergy heavy era of the modern roguelike mechanically, with every monster having unique buffs, debuffs, passive abilities that can trigger extra attacks in specific stiuations, and so-on and so-forth. Almost every party in this game feels like it could be doing an entirely different thing, which is utterly unique and interesting. It also reinvents the more pokemon-esque mechanics in interesting ways. The player almost always uses a team of 3, it only has five types, and your monsters can be equipped with items and remember infinite moves. While these might sound strange in a vacuum, in practice they do a great job of giving the player a huge amount of options to tackle problems, ensuring that you never feel like you're getting too "walled out" by an unlucky type or ability matchup, which, believe me, allow some of the fights in the game to be fairly hard by the standards of this genre. The other notable and interesting aspect of Monster Sanctuary is the overworld. Monster Sanctuary's world is effectively a metroidvania where your movement abilities are acquired by catching new monsters. This idea is actually genius, giving you an incentive to catch every creature in the game even if you're not going to use them in battle and to thoroughly explore every single area. The environments themselves start off rather basic, but there's some very interesting zones as you approach the end of the game. Even more than that, though, the rewards for exploration are always exciting. Rare equipment with bonus effects and potential synergies with your monsters, boss fights against unique creatures that can only be obtained by finding and defeating them in hidden areas, or even massive sidequests all are hidden throughout the lovingly-designed map of Monster Sanctuary. Frankly, writing this has reminded me how much I wish I could play this game again for the first time. It has a feeling of exploration and fun to it that I think trumps even some of my fondest childhood memories, which to me is the marker of a truly incredible game.
good game but im playing on permadeath and this practice duel assured me 2-3 times that IN PERMADEATH mode, this is just practice, we wont kill eachother, even going as far to say it goes without saying. Then proceeded to kill one of my monsters, i gotta recommend the game but thats a glaring what the hell moment thats made me real hesitant to continue that run
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Frequently Asked Questions
Monster Sanctuary is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Monster Sanctuary is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.
Yes, 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.
Yes, Monster Sanctuary is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Monster Sanctuary is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Yes, Monster Sanctuary is playable and fully supported on Linux.
This information about Monster Sanctuary is not available yet.
This information about Monster Sanctuary is not available yet.
No, Monster Sanctuary does not support VR.
Monster Sanctuary offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Monster Sanctuary offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
Yes, there are 2 DLCs available for Monster Sanctuary. Explore additional content available for Monster Sanctuary on Steam.
No, Monster Sanctuary does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Yes, Monster Sanctuary supports Remote Play on Phone and Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Yes, 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.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
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Online players
79
Developer
moi rai games
Publisher
Team17
Release
08 Dec 2020
Platforms
Remote Play
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