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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!

Rules and community guidelines are a work in progress and will be made available as soon as possible. Any help is appreciated! Feel free to contact the community administrator if you have any questions, issues or feedback.

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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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[–] Jarlsburg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months 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 2 months 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

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

Also love that one! It's one of the first I've played on the DS back in the day. Tho I never realized that the multiple turns were due to the speed mechanic, that's actually a really cool thing to have. Wonder if there are more monster taming games that do this.

Have you seen the absolute spam about Digimon Story Time Stranger on Ed's channel? He got the demo and the game early and is going absolutely wild with content on it, it's crazy

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

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

Uh... er... 😳

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

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

Also *WHOSE

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

Hi there :)

Just a quick notice: while I have absolutely nothing agains AO games and content (and comments related to those subjects), I think we would all benefit if this space was a safe place for non-adult people as well.

But don't worry, your comment is fine and won't be removed or anything like that. But it made me realize that's something I need to take into account and figure out when building this space.

I'm still figuring out how this works here on Lemmy. Maybe there's a way we could tag our comments as 18+, so only people with the proper setting would see it? If someone there already knows how all this works, would I appreciate any help or guidance on that front

Once that framework is ready, I'll update the community about section.

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

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 months 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 months ago

I hadn't considered text games. Cheers!