The Last Monsters

This may be one of my favorite early access games I've ever discovered. My nostalgia for Pokémon quickly made me form a kinship with TLM, and with the novel battle system in addition to a brand new world of monsters to explore, train, and master make this a great game. Even though it's early access I've logged 20+ hours and I cannot wait to see how this game develops even further. The developers are also really nice, hard working, and receptive.

After about 20 hours with the game, I can comfortably say Digital Destiny has taken the monster game segment to a whole new level. I have yet to even collect all the different monster types available, let alone touch the elemental system. Being able to create a team that works synergistically rather than just trying to figure out "how do I one shot the opponent" is a breath of fresh air and introduces an immense amount of possibility for not only team construction but how you approach any given zone or battle. The battle system is very well done. Rather than the typical "you go, I go" style of combat common in monster games these days, this game requires some thought. Sure, you could have 3 of your own monsters out and absolutely dominate a single wild monster, but 3 v 3 fights are almost always tense, and some of the more hardcore elements around monster survival make for a much more invested combat system than I've seen in the genre before. Pair that with the unique travelling elements, survival components around stamina and hunger, and this is a truly unique entry to the monster genre that I really hope people take note of. Very excited to see the continuing evolution of this game and plan to sink a whole lot more time into it. Full disclosure, after 20 hours, I haven't even touched the survival heavy End of Days mode, there is that much to do here.

This is shaping up to be a wonderful game and unlike any monster tamer or Pokemon-like I've ever seen. Even early access, it's an absolute steal for $15. The UI could use some refining, but the actual game mechanics are surprisingly polished. There's a lot of lovely little ideas; like all the monsters you catch have unique personalities composed of 3 distinct personality spectrum metrics that also influence their stats. And, I cannot stress this enough, you can play campfire songs for your monsters. It's amazing.

After 5 hours i can say that im absolutely hooked. I've never felt more attached to a team of creatures under my control in any monster game i've ever played.i find myself gameplanning each trip out of town before hand. Making sure im prepared for anything that may happen. I cannot get enough. The game asks and begs for an answer constantly. Who are your monsters to you? Mindless pawns used simply as tools? Or companions, on a journey together to the end of the line? Anyone looking for a challenge and a new entry in to the monster game category, you need not look any further. The Last monsters will whet your appetite and then some.

Having a bit of a hard time thus far. I've as soon as I left town, I spawned on the map to walk around, but my avatar was stuck in the terrain. I could look around with the flash light, but the movement keys did nothing. On other attempts, when I am able to move around, it seems as if I'm doomed to be mobbed by 3 monsters at the same time. Not sure if it was coincidence or not, but all 3 were the same element and type of monster as mine, so I couldn't really deal with one of them quickly in hopes of winning. I'm sure part of that challenges is just me being new. I'me going to give it some more time before I pass judgement, but currently I'm feeling iffy about things.

The game was fun at first, but lacks depth and motivation for continuing. On top of all that, the game is dead and hasn't been updated in over a year and a half. Don't waste your time or money.

Good take on monster taming genre, it is trying something new and shows real good potential.

For an early access the game does very well. The game balance is good as it stands right now and bond feature while limited at the moment shows potential and is a mechanic I'm enjoying at the moment. The game has enough content right now to be worth the price.

EDIT: Unfortunately it seems like this game has been abandoned by the devs. Therefore I cannot in good faith rec it anymore. I haven't gotten too far into the game but there's not reviews up so... While the game is still in early access, you can definitely see that there was effort put into this to make a monster taming game that's genuinely different. It's a little bit hard to get a hang of all the mechanics, I'm still struggling to make sense of everything, but I'm getting the hang of it. It's an interesting game and I'm excited to see where it goes. I'll probably revisit this review once I've had more time with the game.

its in early access so there are bugs but the game is really fun and it deserves more attention than it currently has this is the only creature collector i have ever played more than once and haven't dropped it because of the monotony of grinding because i enjoy survival games all in all if you enjoy survival games and like the idea of creature collectors but dont like playing them this is the perfect game for you since the only thing that is close to combining survival with creature collectors is the minecraft mod pixelmon and lets be honest that is just minecraft but pokemon exist Edit: Changed this to, "Do not reccomend", because the game is dead. So is the discord server. Was fun while it lasted.