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Monster Crown

Monster Crown - Dark Monster Catching Game with True Crossbreeds

Released: 31 July 2020
Platforms: Linux Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X/S macOS
Genres: Adventure Indie Monster-taming Role-playing
Developers: —
Publishers: Soedesco
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action
Country: Canada
Age ratings: ACB PG USK 6 ESRB T GRAC 15+PEGI 12
Languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat: 14hmain story32hcompletionist

About

Monster Crown is a 2021 role-playing video game developed by Studio Aurum and published by Soedesco. Heavily inspired by the Pokémon series, it features similar gameplay mechanics while adopting a darker fictional universe and storyline. The game received mixed reviews from critics: who praised its gameplay and graphical style, but noted a significant quantity of bugs, performance issues, and poor game balance. The game's story has also been criticized.

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Gameplay

Monster Crown features 200 base monsters for the player to form pacts with. Over 1200 monsters are usable in the game through the monster breeding mechanic.

Development

Development of the game was performed by Canadian game developer Studio Aurum, with game development beginning in 2016. The game was crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2018. In 2019 it was announced that Soedesco would be the publisher of the game.

Monster Crown entered an early access availability period on PC on July 31, 2020, being distributed on Steam during that time. Over 40 updates were made to the game during the early access period.

Reception

On Metacritic the game received an aggregate score of 59/100 for the Nintendo Switch version, and 62/100 for the Xbox One version, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Reviewers generally praised the extensive monster breeding mechanics used by the game.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
Windows	31 July 2020	Worldwide
Nintendo Switch	11 October 2021	Europe · Worldwide 12 October 2021
PlayStation 4	12 October 2021	Worldwide
Xbox One	12 October 2021	Worldwide · North America 22 February 2022