Monster taming meets metroidvania. Collect, train and battle monsters in a lovely side-scroller pixel world.
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.57/day in the week to Sep 10 → 1.86/day in the week after.
About
Delve deep into the Metroidvania inspired world of Monster Sanctuary, explore the expansive lands and call upon your monsters to lend their aid in and out of combat! Use their unique skills to fly, ride and brute force your way through environmental puzzles and precise platforming! The world is yours to traverse as you see fit, are you ready to take on the Sanctuary?
Your quest begins with a choice of an ancient spectral familiar, a wistful monster who will guide your first steps into the sanctuary. They will be by your side as you catch your first of 111 monsters. From here it is up to you to hatch, collect, evolve and train monsters from across the Sanctuary! Each possesses unique abilities and a skill tree for you to customise as your team grows in strength.
Strategically order your attacks for maximum efficiency, stacking your attacks to deal devastating combos! Try out different team combinations and make use of synergies between your monsters. Encounter formidable foes, endurance challenges and train an unbeatable team!
Face off in a test of skill and ability in online player vs player! Gather and train monsters, max out their skill trees and take on friends and foes in an epic battle to have the last monsters standing!
Added with the latest update, you can enable and combine optional Randomizer, Bravery and Permadeath game modes, making every playthrough a fresh and different experience.
Genres
Sums Steam only; Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $4.99−75% | 12.7Kreviews | 91% | — | $1.1M |
| $19.99 | 1.9Kratings | 90% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 849 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
This might be my favorite monster collector in recent memory, truly a well rounded and satisfying experience. Tons of depth at almost every level, rewarding and constant progression, and full of creative passion top to bottom. I've seen quite a few reviews on this game talking about the combat being too slow, or the early game being boring, or the rest of the game getting boring. Personally, I think none of these are even a little true. The combat is incredible, and very satisfying to create synergies between monsters, their passive effects, and building good combo strings for ideal damage. These can be stressed to the extreme against boss battle reruns where a fast clear time is required for the best rewards, and I think it's great fun. In addition, there are features in the settings to enhance the speed of combat, which I did. Never so fast couldn't see what was happening, but fast enough that repeat attempts on challenges were more fun to experiment on strategies with. The early game is naturally comparatively slow, though... it is a metroidvania. Have you ever played one where you had all the movement options out of the gate? Of course not. Part of the formula is finding the new option to access new areas or new parts of previous areas. They handled this very well in my opinion, and the progression feels very solidly and consistently paced. The rest of the game getting boring or people losing interest is a bit hard for me to imagine, given the way the game expands as you invest into it. Monster skill trees become incredibly diverse and the depth team building can offer is very rewarding and interesting. The story might not be world shattering, but I also found it fun and exciting to engage with. The areas are distinct and fun to explore, and each new place having so many new monsters to tame with the aforementioned depth is, to me, amazing. Especially once you start seeing themed ideas in skill trees where the possibilities start to multiply. tl:dr This game is awesome, very fun, extremely satisfying, and rewards your curiosity. The game is very worth the time, and often is on such a fair sale it's undeniable in its value. I love Monster Sanctuary and I wish so badly I could wipe my memories of it to experience it for the first time again. Highly recommend.
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14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Sep 20: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.71/day in the week to Jul 30 → 1.57/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil
| $4.99−75% |
| 1Kratings |
| 94% |
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| not modelled |
| $19.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 852 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Bought the game on discount and didn't play until a year or two later due to gaming backlog. Mostly went in blind only looking at some screenshots to note graphical choice/fidelity. Fun game which progressively became more enjoyable as I got more creatures. Each monster has skill trees which contain passive traits or active spells/skills. The skill tree system in a creature collector/battler is a pretty cool change and surprise going in blind. My experience has mostly been Pokemon games starting with the original Red/Blue up to Scarlet/Violet, otherwise I played Temtem, Coromon, Lumentale, and a bit of Cassette Beasts. ( I need to restart Cassette Beasts and beat it ) -- Anyway, you get a team of six and battles are 3v3s. So you want to make two separate teams that mesh well together. There's a lot of options for synergy amongst the monsters for team synergy. Never played any of the older Castlevania games or any Metroid game, so I wasn't sure what to expect with creature collector/battler mixed with Metroidvania. For the most part, I take no issue with traversing through the game. It's pretty clear when you get to points in the story or when moving around the map that you'll need either an item or a monster to help you get past an obstacle. Pretty simple, nothing complicated. -- Personal minor gripe; Not a fan of having to go back to an area in the beginning or middle of the game after having to get something late/end game to either open or reach that spot. This is something that bothered me since youth whenever it comes up. It's a bit annoying because I can go several hours of playing and I might have forgotten how far back or where specifically it was on the map, or even if I can access it after whatever point I've gotten by progressing further. Later I learned that you can create markers on the map in-game, but I learned that well...late. This wouldn't be a minor gripe if the/any game let's you know when you can go back to those areas and progress pass it. ---- Again, minor gripe, just wanted to share my view on this gaming aspect/design. Soundtrack is nice. Story nothing crazy, nothing special. Fun game. Only beat it once, but I may return to it once I've cleared some backlog of games. Monster Sanctuary has a Newgame+ with options you can take like RNG monster spawns/locations, items, permadeath.
What Pokemon should have been. Imagine a combat system so addictive you're actually *excited* to jump into the next random encounter because you can't wait to get that last experience point to unlock a new ability on your monster's skill tree or you've been crafting new synergies and want to test out an experimental team. It's _that_ engaging. As for the story, it's whatever. I found myself skipping throug the dialogue often (haha). The monster designs are more akin to what you'd see in Monster Rancher than Pokemon or Digimon, which is totally fine by me. Honestly it's everything you could ever ask for in a monster taming RPG. They took the Pokemon formula and PERFECTED it by improving every single thing (about the gameplay that is. Maybe not the music, story, or designs, but even those elements are more than passable in a game like this). All in all it's a SOLID reccomend. Do yourself a favour and give it a spin!
跳跳乐这块，抓精灵这块很不错
玩起来有点让人红温
还是玩不下去回合制
画风可爱，玩法也出色，比想象中耐玩。
Buen juego
Excelente videojuego, me encariñe mucho
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