The Monster Within
ABOUT THIS GAME
Monsters roam the streets of the city, including you! Fight off sinister creatures while stopping yourself from turning into one too in this deck building card game. Craft a unique deck each round from Day cards, Night cards, and Monster cards. Do you try to stay above board and beat your opponents through clever investigation and tactics, use the seeder underbelly of the city to your advantage, or embrace your burgeoning evil instincts? Or maybe mix a bit of all three! Pick one of six different classic monsters to play as. Unlock new cards and characters as you play, unlocking more and more playstyles and strategies. Themed after 1950’s horror comics, build the story of your battle with the cards you play.
In classic deck building fashion, buy cards to use to damage your opponent, protect yourself, or just buy even better cards in the future. Over two hundred cards to play with and unlock.
Take your pick of monsters each with their own cards and strategy. Feed on your foes blood as the Vampire, embrace the night as a the Wraith, make your opponents green with envy as the Plant, crush them with sheer bulk as the Blob, and more!
As you loose health, you become more and more monstrous and the cards you can buy change. Keep your health high to stay in the Day, or intentionally let it slip to gain powerful Monster cards. Just don’t let yourself fully lose control to the monster within!
Fangs, Scaly Skin, Mysterious Secretions, take your pick of Afflictions each round to power up your character and find new strategies to win. What’s a little inhumanity when it comes with such power?
Use the Blood system to make the game more difficult the more you play it. The harder it is, the faster you’ll unlock more content.
The Monster Within is fully playable, with an expansive amount of content already. But it’s not quite expansive enough, Since only six of the ten planned monsters are available to play, the game is still in early access. More monsters, more cards, and the fourth and fifth round with dual class monsters and the final boss are all coming soon, free of charge. Just buy the game now and you’ll have access to all the upcoming content as it comes out with no additional purchases necessary. So get in there and show the competition why you’re the meanest monster around!
Game Discussion
Steam User 0
A neat game. It is a bit unpolished but the gameplay is fun. Basically you build a new deck during each fight.
Steam User 0
A good spin on the deckbuilding/resource allocation style of game. Your setup involving packs rather than cards and building as you play makes the game far more dynamic than most deckbuilders. Additionally every monster having at least 2-4 play styles keeps things pretty fresh. The game also ramps up well with the blood/level system. There are some playstyles with some monsters (plant) that are very strong but there are bosses that seem made to counter only playing that strategy. Finally the Weird Tales/Eerie horror comic aesthetic and humor is fantastic .
The only downsides are standard issues with the unity engine rather than anything about the game itself. The creator is also quick to respond if those do crop up.
Overall I 100% recommend.
Steam User 0
The mechanics can be challenging but it also rewards players for exploiting the mechanics to their own advantage.
Steam User 0
A reasonable deck builder I can suggest to my friends without them looking at me weird for linking a porn game.
I haven't unlocked all of the classes yet so I'm still hoping that my preferred class from the last game (pet) has made it in.
Steam User 0
Sooo... It's a fun slay-the-spyre-like game, with amazing concept of fighting monsters, while being one of them as well, all in the style of 50's comic books.
I got it for a steam sale price, and I don't want to be rude, but after playing it, I wouldn't be comfortable paying it full, it's just too much... The Monster Within is looking rather goofy, while I respect developers' rights for money, it just feels like there could be more work done. You could commission artists to do actual comics before fights, as well as death effects not being so digitally smooth and out of place...
I'm an artist myself, so there are just the things that outstand to me.
Also I have some issues with game itself, it crashes during interludes between fights.
But I enjoyed the dialogs and jokes so far!
I will recommend this game for more people to see it, but personally I think it's undercooked.
If you're a fan of the genre and want something fresh, there you go.
Steam User 0
Certain cards are unplayable because they mess up what cards are displayed(a very critical issue for a card game) and will sometimes randomly remove cards from my deck for no apperant reason along with various other glitches(if the "loading" yellow box screen right after "ready" yellow box gets stuck you can click it a few times and it usually fixes it). but man is it fun.
just accept sometimes the game will randomly eat your cards and avoid stuff that messes with cards in your hand and have fun.
the narative is simple and funny, the art is nice, the (nonglitchy) mechanics are engaging and fun and the character options are varying with some interesting gimmicks(even if some don't get used as much as I'd like in my games)
I can't wait till I get the full "occult" set and see what it does
Steam User 1
I remember making a review for this so I don't know where that fucked off to. My reviews like to disappear. My Steam account always seems to be bugged.
Anyway, I love the music. I always love that old stuff - a bit hypnotic. The art could be better but it's nice enough. The gameplay confused me a bit but it's interesting. I did enjoy playing for a while. It's alright. It's cool.