The Monster Breeder
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About the GameThis is a turn-based fantasy strategy game with RPG elements. The game has two main layers: the first is the monster breeding, the second is the tactical turn-based arena combat.
Main Features
- Create Monsters
- Tactical Arena Combat
- Large variety of tournaments
- Warrior training
- Forging
- Alchemy
- Base upgrading
Players can purchase eggs and juvenile creatures from local hunters. The next step is to set up a magical treatment to enhance the creatures’ strength, agility, and other attributes. Nearly all these traits can be manipulated with magic scrolls, potions, blood infusions and runestones, although overuse of magic and potions can cause severe illness, infertility, shorter lifespan, or even death.
Natural species are weak and perform poorly in the arena, but all have at least one valuable ability. There are three classes of creature available: insect, reptile and carnivora. Players can only crossbreed species within the same class, and the best offspring can then be selected for magic treatments to improve their combat performance. Only eggs and juvenile creatures can be treated. Adult monsters earn experience fighting in the arena and learn new skills when leveling up, but these skills are not inheritable.
There are multiple options for players to house their monsters in the various chambers and cellars of the Old Keep, or they can build a small hut or kennel in the courtyard and upgrade it. Depending on their temperature tolerance, some creatures can live in a flooded dungeon cellar while some others need a warm environment to remain healthy. Only healthy creatures can fight and earn money for their masters.
Combat in the arena is tough but not always deadly. Beginners can participate in non-lethal tournaments without the risk of losing a character or monster. Lethal combat pays much better, but this is a game with permadeath, so be aware!
How much risk are you willing to take? Which tournament are you going to enter? Only you decide. Players get money if they take part in a tournament, but only the winners receive the glory and extra rewards.
Warriors, archers and sorcerers can be hired to fight side-by-side with monsters in the arena. Players can personalize their training and equip them with weapons that match their skills and strength, although to be overburdened with armor comes with serious penalties in combat.
Characters earn experience in the arena and gain new skills when leveling up, and older warriors can be valuable trainers depending on their intelligence and trainer skills. Some hired characters may refuse to participate in lethal tournaments, but slaves can also be trained for combat.
Players need to hire a blacksmith and alchemist to be able to craft items like weapons, armor or potions. Every craftsman has unique skills and traits affecting their products’ quality, their rate of work, and the amount of material they use.
Various types of equipment can be purchased to enhance productivity: recipe books, alembics and extractors are all useful accessories of the alchemist’s lab, while weapon and armor molds, alloy smelters and special forges are exceedingly beneficial to the blacksmith. Apprentices can be hired to improve productivity and players can employ them as blacksmiths or alchemists when they graduate.
Players can construct or upgrade various types of buildings, allowing them to keep more monsters, incubate more eggs, create more weapons and potions, or increase storage capacity and the size of their living quarters.
Some buildings have unique features: Hatchling’s Cabin provides the possibility of using runestones and magic fields to modify juvenile creatures’ traits, while the Alchemist’s Shack and Blacksmith’s Hut provide more places to hire craftsmen and also give an efficiency bonus. The Old Keep is the default building at the beginning of the game. It has multiple chambers and cellars, all of which can be assigned to any purpose.
Steam User 2
Unexpectedly deep, combat is challenging and the graphics are nostalgic ps2 stuff but the monster breeding is where it really shines! amazing!
Steam User 3
This game is amazing and the developer is doing an amazing job with this game. I really can't wait for the full release of this game with all the additional content. Honestly this is a game I wouldn't mind buying a DLC for in the future if he was to release one with new content like a whole new breeding group. Over all would feed slaves to my reptiles again 10/10, Scrumptious.
Steam User 1
This game is itching a scratch that had bothered me for quite a while. i have played ark and other games with breeding, but dont allow cross breeding. so i was searching for games that allowed and this game popped up. i may have played less then 20 hours at the time of this review, and am excited for the full release. there is a need for some polish, especially in the beastiary where you cannot scroll to read the full caption, or with the reaper dragon, the image of the creature blocks some of the text. i am still learning some points of this game and how to implement it into my breeding. i do wish there were more things i could do with sorcerer, because it seems they never can get more powerful as an attacker, nor increase their survive-ability. i also wish i could get some of these acheivements, so i am wondering if it is a select few people who have access to the full test version. i will be restarting when the full release happens, and the game seems new user friendly. i cannot recommend this game enough. might add more to this review be it constructive bugs/errors, or more praise. very well done dev!
Steam User 0
Great game. Plenty of replayability. Can't wait to create some truly horrific crossbred critters with the full release.
Steam User 0
This is a pretty cool game, and it is pretty original. I enjoyed all of the cool little things you can do and ways to do them, and the whole skip the tutorial and figure it out type of thing they have going on. Overall really fun.
I really cant wait for the full release as a lot of things I wanted to do I couldn't because it comes out in the full release.
It is NOT a pretty game, and for what it is I would have almost preferred just good ol red and blue pokemon style graphics, but also not the type of game that needs to be really pretty either.
The graphics are almost annoyingly bad, but, the game does not need the graphics in order to be fun.
The CONCEPT is OG and VERY fun, and I almost wish we were already on the final version of The Monster Breeder 2, because there are SO many places this game COULD go and it would be absolutely AMAZING to play this with a good looking set of graphics and a more established gameplay.
ABSOLUTELY worth the money.
Steam User 0
very good i don't know how to delete saves but other than that brilliant and i love it
Steam User 0
This is a great game! I very rarely write reviews for anything but this game is very well made. I don't usually like turn based games at all but this has changed my perspective. The amount of depth that the dev is adding is what makes this so much fun to play. Now I'm just waiting for the full release to jump back in!