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Monster Taming

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The place for all things in the Monster Taming Genre. Supporting developers, artists, content creators and Players alike.

This community is for all things related to monster taming games, especially non-Pokemon games. While we love Pokemon games, the focus on this subreddit is non-Pokemon games, and we put even more focus on indie monster taming games.

Monster Taming games are games where you "tame," catch," befriend," etc. monsters. The genre has exploded in new games in just the past years!

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Share below your favorite monster taming game!

Here is a good place to get recommendations when looking for what game to play

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 points 2 days ago

Digimon World DS. It had the fun speed stat mechanic where a sufficiently high one let your mons have multiple turns in a row.

That demo for time stranger was pretty great so that one's probably going to by my answer mext month.

[–] Jarlsburg@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shout out to Cassette Beasts. Just and overall wonderful game for anyone who enjoys the monster battler genre. Great music, novel setting, solid story, and plenty of room for emergent gameplay stemming from the ability to hotswap abilities and the chance for "bootleg" monsters with different types than normal.

[–] odnankenobi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I can confirm! Cassette Beasts is one of my favourites, possibly the best Monster Taming game out there. The art direction is absolutely gorgeous, the music is amazing, the overall polish and attention to detail is extremely satisfying.

I also like their take on the strategic side, opting for buffs and debuffs and varying interactions between types instead of the simpler super effective / not very effective mechanic

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

me, who's favorite monster taming game is an AO porn game

Uh... er... 😳

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 days ago

Well don't just stand there. Tell us the name boy.

Also *WHOSE

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh. Presumably that applies to the majority of porn games?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Welllllll....

There are somewhat PG-13 "porn" games where the porn is just text without visuals. I wouldn't consider a book to be "adults only" but then maybe I'm weird.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I hadn't considered text games. Cheers!