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A lengthy monster-taming metroidvania with deep skill-tree combat, shiny variants, and online PvP, set in a pixel-art side-scrolling world.

Monster Crown: Sin Eater
A single-player monster-catching RPG in the Crown Nation where True Crossbreeding makes each monster unique, and a familiar start gives way to notable depth (reviewers averaged ~18 hours).
2026-04-30
- Puzzle

Adventure

Bird view / Isometric

Role-playing (RPG)

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Disc Creatures

A single-player, turn-based monster-tamer RPG with pixel art, featuring creature copying via the DiscKid to solve mysteries in a world shared with creatures.

2019-10-17

Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Anode Heart

A semi-open world robot monster-taming RPG with turn-based battles, breeding, and a card minigame, offering a lengthy ~25-30 hour campaign with charming pixel art and a challenging tone.

2023-11-17

Science fiction
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game

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Abomi Nation

A single-player roguelike monster-taming RPG that creates a new world of Abomis each run, centered on exploration, creature bonding, and battles.

2021-07-28

Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Tactical
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

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Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores

A heartfelt mushroom-themed metroidvania with dense interconnected exploration and standout platforming, offering roughly 15 hours of play.

2025-11-07

Action
Warfare
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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Siralim 3

A deep single-player monster-taming RPG with over 700 customizable creatures, procedural dungeons, and crafting, very positively received on Steam.

2018-10-15

Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

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9th Dawn III

An open-world 2D action RPG/dungeon crawler with monster capturing, item hoarding, a collectible card game, and co-op, taking about 31 hours to play.

2020-10-05

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world
Card & Board Game

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Decktamer

A turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where you capture abyss monsters and fight through 1–3 hour runs, blending Pokémon-style taming with Slay-the-Spire strategy.

2025-10-27

Strategy
Card & Board Game

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Tangledeep

A colorful turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler with a flexible job system and lengthy, procedurally generated runs.

2018-02-01

Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

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The Monster Breeder

A turn-based gladiator-management RPG about breeding, mutating, and fighting monster hybrids, with a rough-around-the-edges ~13-hour campaign.

2025-05-06

Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)
Sandbox

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Tomomon

A single-player pixel-art monster taming RPG with 3v3 turn-based battles, featuring extensive collecting/fusing and around 30 hours of playtime, though combat balance and polish are criticized.

2024-09-23

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

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Coromon

A monster-taming RPG with turn-based battles, puzzle-heavy exploration, and both solo and cross-platform PvP play, with reviewers averaging about 17–24 hours.

2022-03-31

Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Fighting
Indie
Side view
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)