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Monster Taming Direct 09.07.2025

Monster Taming Direct 09.07.2025

Get ready for Monster Taming Direct 2025 featuring a wide array of Monster Taming / Creature Collecting Indie games all with their own unique twist on the genre, including turn based RPGs, real time action combat games, roguelikes, etc.

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43 featured games

Featured Games(43)

Montabi

Montabi

Mankibo, Akupara Games

Tame, collect, fight! Assemble an unstoppable team of unique Montabi in this Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder. Master their awesome abilities, synergize their strategic strengths and save the city in tactical turn-based combat!

IndieStrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Kindred Fates

Kindred Fates

Skymill Studios

Kindred Fates is an action combat, open world, monster battling RPG with permadeath. Forge your path through a shadowy winding story, and form lifelong bonds with powerful monsters in this unforgiving world.

AdventureRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Disc Creatures WORLD

Disc Creatures WORLD

Picorinne Soft

Embark on a grand adventure through a world full of mysteries, uncovering ‘Discs’ to collect your own party of creatures! Engage in strategic battles, enjoy an assortment of collectables, and meet unique characters along the way. A monster taming RPG with a blend of nostalgia and novelty!

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Myth Caller: The Nightmare Shaman

Myth Caller: The Nightmare Shaman

Karatkuro, Top Hat Curios

Myth Caller: The Nightmare Shaman is a 3D collectathon platformer fused with a monster-catching RPG! Catch monsters, collect permanent upgrades, and unlock even more of this huge 90's-inspired world.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformRPGRole-playing (RPG)
GladiEATers

GladiEATers

MilkBubblesGames

Cook and command teams of living food in this narrative creature battler. GladiEATers blends seven chef stories in top-down JRPG adventures and roguelike gauntlets, featuring 6v6 battles, spicy cooking minigames and online multiplayer.

Early AccessIndieRPGStrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
LumenTale: Memories of Trey

LumenTale: Memories of Trey

Beehive Studios, Team17

LumenTale: Memories of Trey is a captivating Monster Collector RPG set in a beautiful and enchanting world. Follow Trey as he embarks on an adventure to recover his missing memories and make new ones with the Animon.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Bagdex

Bagdex

Caramelo Games, Dumativa, CriticalLeap

Monster taming with base building! Collect over 160 creatures, manage and customize your base, conquer challenging battles, and unravel the mystery behind this fantastic world!

AdventureRPGRole-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Tomomon

Tomomon

ManicBuild Studio

Experience the best of both worlds with our monster taming game - relive the nostalgia of classic role-play games, while enjoying fresh and immersive gameplay. Capture and train unique monsters in stunning environments, and put your skills to the test in challenging 3v3 battles.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Aethermancer

Aethermancer

moi rai games, offbrand games

Monster Taming meets Roguelite. Become the Aethermancer and fight alongside mythical creatures. Explore the ever-changing Fractured Ruins, plan your moves in challenging turn-based battles, and watch your Monsters grow stronger from previous lives and defy death!

AdventureEarly AccessIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Eidolon Awakened

Eidolon Awakened

Platinum Star Games

Eidolon Awakened is a turn-based creature collector RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world overtaken by creatures known as Eidolons. Take your place among the Summoners, able to capture and control the Eidolon to determine the fate of mankind.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Oni Hunters

Oni Hunters

Lunar Labs

Journey through Gironia's lands, where monsters roam and secrets await. Battle, fuse creatures, and decide your fate in the grand Monster Jubilee. Ready for the adventure?

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Bean Beasts

Bean Beasts

Anxious Noob

Defeat monster hordes alongside your Bean Beasts in this cute, challenging Tower Defense Game! Evolve your companions, explore upgrade paths for traps and take on epic boss battles!

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
Astral Arena

Astral Arena

The Game Garden

Monster Taming meets Roguelike Real-Time Combat! Build your team of Astrals and customize their skills with the modular ability system!

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationStrategy
9th Dawn Remake

9th Dawn Remake

Valorware

Rediscover the magic of the 9th Dawn series with this complete re-imagining of the original game. Venture into a massive 2.5D open world. Explore 45 new dungeons in single-player or online/local co-op, craft weapons, raise pets, play a deck-building card game, and take down the Castle of Maltyr!

ActionAdventureRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Tupi: The Legend of Arariboia

Tupi: The Legend of Arariboia

Mito Games

Tupi: The Legend of Arariboia is a Turn-Based Roguelite RPG with Monster Tamer elements that follows the indigenous warrior Arariboia in his quest to save his people, rebuild his village, and master the spiritual powers of the forest against a looming darkness.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Botworld Odyssey

Botworld Odyssey

Featherweight Games

Venture out into a huge open world to discover new bots and collect rare scrap to build them. Deploy your bots in tactical auto-battles on your quest to become the world’s greatest Botmaster.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Coromon: Rogue Planet

Coromon: Rogue Planet

TRAGsoft, indie.io

Choose your starter Coromon, upgrade your gear, and battle your way across the Farlands in a modern-day monster tamer with a rogue-like twist! Tame monsters, battle Crimsonite bosses, and uncover the secrets of a crashed alien ship!

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Abomi Nation: Monster Rifts

Abomi Nation: Monster Rifts

Orange Pylon Games

Create and battle with your own monsters in this roguelike monster-taming game that unites dozens of indie universes!

IndieRPGReal Time Strategy (RTS)Role-playing (RPG)Strategy
Pipkin

Pipkin

Gregdude

Explore a spooky, Halloween-themed world - make friends, dance with a turkey, or become a witch. Catch 60+ pipkin and fight alongside them as you explore the magical world of New Haven.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Shard Squad

Shard Squad

The Root Studios, Nuntius Games, Vsoo Games

Form a squad of elemental creatures and face hordes of challenging enemies! Choose your Shards according to their synergies to gain new abilities, and equip relics that will make the winds blow in your favor! Survive through different environments and save your lands!

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRole-playing (RPG)Shooter
Monster Care Simulator

Monster Care Simulator

Banana Tiger Studio

Manage a care center for adorable monsters in Monster Care Simulator! Treat clients' creatures, hatch eggs, raise your own companions, and keep them happy with fun activities. Hire staff, expand your facilities, and customize your space to build the ultimate monster sanctuary!

CasualSimulationSimulator
Monster Crown: Sin Eater

Monster Crown: Sin Eater

Studio Aurum, Red Art Games

Hand-craft your team of perfect Monsters and wage a one-man war against fate and the world in the Crown Nation! With a True Crossbreeding system, every Monster is entirely your own!

AdventurePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Insectile

Insectile

Narwhalnut LLC

INSECTILE is a creature collector RPG where you piece bugs together to form your attacks! Assemble your party of cute bugs and synergize their puzzling shapes with their unique effects!

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Voidling Bound

Voidling Bound

Hatchery Games

Hatch, evolve, and upgrade powerful space creatures in this action-packed sci-fi 3rd person shooter that reinvents the monster taming genre!

ActionAdventureRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Tales of Tuscany

Tales of Tuscany

Nico Papalia, Top Hat Studios, Inc., Doyoyo Games

Play as LAMBYPOO and adventure through Tuscany, either gaslighting your enemies into joining your party or defeating them for their EXP in your efforts to save your cousins and rebuild your village.

AdventureRPGRole-playing (RPG)
TurnBreak

TurnBreak

Dapper Dog Digital

Bend the rules. Break your opponents. Outsmart the League before it crushes you. Forge unstoppable teams of evolving Beasts, then exploit elemental weaknesses to chain devastating plays. Every battle is a high-stakes mind game. Will you rise through the ranks or be broken in the attempt?

ActionCasualEarly AccessIndieStrategy
Critterrupters

Critterrupters

Fuzz Force

Choose your new buddy and set off on a Critterbyte adventure on Nikkolo Island! Capture Critterbytes by fulfilling their conditions and master time based battles by interrupting your opponent's turns. Assemble your team to challenge the Island's Clubs and gain new buddy abilities to explore further.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Anode Heart 2

Anode Heart 2

Stove Powered Games

A dungeon crawler creature collector RPG, set in a digital, futuristic environment, with fast-paced combat and 150+ Tama creatures to befriend and raise into lovable monstrosities.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Idle Critter Adventure

Idle Critter Adventure

Fuzz Force

Pick your first Critter and head off on an adventure, even if that's away from your PC! Choose an area in the Dorma region and leave Alfa to battle trainers and capture new Critters. Unlock areas filled with new Critters and defeat Clubs on the way to becoming a Critter Champion!

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Tiny Monster Haven

Tiny Monster Haven

Digging Dino

A cozy idle creature collector that sits on your desktop as you go about your day. Grow crops, care for and level-up your companions and put them to the test in exciting monster battles!

Casual
Sphirit

Sphirit

MixedPixels

Tactical RPG with grid-based battles where masters summon mystical creatures, use skill cards, and control the battlefield in strategic duels.

CasualIndieStrategy
Stories of Somnia

Stories of Somnia

Lydian Games, Monster Theater

Unravel a story-rich adventure blending a turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics. Use spells to grapple across gaps, uncover hidden routes, and combine abilities with powerful Dreamkin companions to overcome a world consumed by Gloam.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Trinity 64

Trinity 64

Bilsu

A Souls-like Monster Tamer inspired by 90's Retro Adventure games. Fight and form bonds with powerful creatures, explore a ruined world, and uncover secrets within dungeons and the bosses that lurk in them.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatform
Tamer Town

Tamer Town

Crazy Goat Games

Collect Mokiton in this city management game, where tamers and their monsters unite in battle, evolve and bond together in their unique town. Design neighborhoods, unlock stories and grow a feel-good world where every connection matters.

IndieRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategy
V-Monsters Forgotten Link

V-Monsters Forgotten Link

Red Studios

A turn-based monster RPG set in a digital world torn by war. Build bonds, evolve in battle, and uncover the hidden truth behind the fall of Folklora.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Astra Bestiary

Astra Bestiary

Bicho Feo

Raise Beasts from eggs into powerful Champions in this 2D monster-raising/taming RPG. Feed, train and evolve your partners to explore a perilous, non-linear world. Master fast-paced, tactical battles, uncover the secrets of a fading world and pass on the Beasts' legacy across generations.

AdventureRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Yami Kids

Yami Kids

Yanako RPGs, GameDevTosh, Silverbook Games Studio LLC

Play as "The Yami Twins" and uncover the mystery behind your family's killers. Yami Kids is a tale of tragedy, familial bonds, and revenge. Face off against trainers in "Shadow Duels", and make contracts with Oni to aid you on your quest.

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Legacy of Pandora

Legacy of Pandora

OPP Studios

Turn-based roguelike inspired by Greek mythology. Capture and corrupt creatures, evolve through decisions, and face unique events across procedural maps. Your choices shape the story, your team, and Pandora’s daughter.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Anvilium

Anvilium

Hammer Seed Games

Creature-crafting action RPG. Design your army between missions, then control your champion and fight alongside them in chaotic real-time combat

ActionAdventureRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Dino Citadel

Dino Citadel

Ridgewalker Games

Command a castle-on-a-dino through a corrupted world. Rescue fallen allies, lead them in battle, and build your deck. Manage your economy to draw cards and confront the Voidrift in this tactical roguelike deckbuilder.

AdventureIndieStrategy
WinMon

WinMon

IndieLab, Phoenix Game, Smilegate

Feed your cute little monsters right on your desktop! And once full, it's time to work! From sowing seeds, watering plants, providing light to mining ores and chopping trees. Resources don't come on their own and food isn't bought with air. Everyone will need to work.

IndieSimulator
Path to Tamer Town

Path to Tamer Town

Crazy Goat Games

Step into a condensed monster taming adventure. Explore, evolve and battle in a compact monster collector format. Hop on your scooter, build your dream team of Mokiton in a procedurally generated world. Every run delivers a unique map and hybrid action–turn-based combat with roguelite elements.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Goobie Garden

Goobie Garden

Goobie Garden is a free-to-play creature collector, where the world changes and grows alongside you each and every day.