Monster Sanctuary
A pixel art monster collecting game featuring sideview visuals, metroidvania like exploration and challenging turn based combat.
Monster Sanctuary is an adventure developed by Moi Rai Games, released 7 December 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. It currently starts at $4.39 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 45.5 hrs to finish.
What Monster Sanctuary is
Monster Sanctuary is an adventure game developed by Moi Rai Games and released in 2020. It was published by Team17. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 2017.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Monster Sanctuary is a 2020 Metroidvania role-playing video game developed by Moi Rai Games and published by Team17. The game combines side-scrolling exploration with monster-taming mechanics and turn-based combat. It was released for Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on December 8, 2020, after a period of early access on Windows beginning in August 2019. The game was also available through Xbox Game Pass at launch.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 41 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Monster Sanctuary holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 45.5 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $4.39, that works out to about $0.10 per hour of the main story, or $0.08 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual-Core, 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM and GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB, Radeon HD 4870 512 MB. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.39 at Fanatical, 78% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Monster Sanctuary launched on 7 December 2020, within three weeks of Cyberpunk 2077, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Omori and Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Cyberpunk 2077, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Omori, Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Monster Sanctuary yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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