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Monster Taming Direct 09.12.2026

Monster Taming Direct 09.12.2026

The Monster Taming Direct as the name suggests, is centered around the "Monster Taming" or "Creature Collecting" genre, which are a subsect of games dedicated to capturing, collecting, training, raising, and/or battling with monster companions.

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36 featured games

Featured Games(36)

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)
Coromon

Coromon

TRAGsoft, indie.io

Embark on a complete 30+ hour monster-taming RPG adventure, now remastered for PC! Catch and train more than 120 Coromon, explore six diverse biomes, and master strategic turn-based battles as you unravel a mystery that could change Velua forever.

AdventureFightingIndiePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Summoner's Tale

Summoner's Tale

Summoner’s Tale is an Action-Platformer monster collecting game in a new way! Collect Monsters, discover their unique abilities, build your dream squad and fight your way to save the world!

AdventureIndie
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)
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
Letalis

Letalis

Monkiato

Recruit over 1,000 Letalis, conquer coliseums and explore a non-linear world packed with secrets.

RPGRole-playing (RPG)
Alchemic Beasts

Alchemic Beasts

White Guardian Studios LLC

A monster-taming RPG where the social chemistry between your beasts shape how they bond, battle, and build. Join Zieg and Mioni to reclaim the wild paradise of Mizu, tame powerful monsters, and restore the resort to its former glory.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Simulation
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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
Decklings

Decklings

Dark Lizard Games, 2 Left Thumbs

Tame magical creatures called Decklings and lead them into challenging battles in this resource management, deckbuilding card game. Explore wild biomes, gather resources, and craft items to build your base and raise your Decklings as you shape your path to become the Deckling Champion.

AdventureCard & Board GameCasualRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategy
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)
WILDERLOCKE

WILDERLOCKE

David Litt

WILDERLOCKE is a tactical monster-taming roguelike. Build up a team of diverse & powerful monsters. Find the perfect combinations of moves, passives & stats to create devastating synergies. Triumph in increasingly challenging 2v2 turn-based battles and become unstoppable.

IndieStrategy
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 monster-taming RPG featuring 80+ Oni to Contract and Train, or risk it all in nighttime Shadow Duels!

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)
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.

Elestrals Awakened

Elestrals Awakened

Elestrals

The elemental forces that once held balance have begun to unravel. Long ago, divine power was shattered across the stars, giving birth to the creatures now known as Elestrals. As darkness stirs and conflict brews, the Gods call upon new Champions to rise. Will you protect the world?

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Stackmon

Stackmon

Riftpoint Entertainment, Alibi Games

Stack, train and collect 100+ powerful Stackmon in this creature-collector with a card-stacking twist! Build your camp, challenge rival Scouts in combat and face the mysterious corruption spreading throughout your land.

AdventureCard & Board GameIndieStrategy
Pemkie Island

Pemkie Island

MESHUP Games, MESHUP

Pemkie Island is a monster taming RPG adventure, in a roguelite format. Travel across the 5 different regions while discovering and taming unique creatures called Pemkies. Master their traits, choose the right skills and build the best team possible to restore balance!

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Monster Alchemy

Monster Alchemy

Team Metacarpo, Vsoo Games

Create unique creatures, use them to gather rare resources, and fuse them into even more powerful beings! This RPG combines classic exploration with a deep crafting system where your monsters are your ultimate tool for looting, combat, and discovery.

AdventureCasualEarly AccessIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Cassette Beasts 2002

Cassette Beasts 2002

Bytten Studio, Raw Fury

Record, battle, and fuse with 250+ beasts as you adventure alongside diverse companions in this monster-collecting RPG. Set in London in 2002, play in single-player or online to unmask an enigmatic occultist who threatens the realms of man and beast! When worlds collide, take the leap beyond!

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)
The Sky Project: Land of Noris

The Sky Project: Land of Noris

Enthariel Games

Hand-drawn monster collector where every creature lost might be gone forever. Explore four unique planes and train 200+ mana creatures.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Spectrakin

Spectrakin

Chronic Orbit Games

Catch and train monsters, master turn-based combat, and grow a small settlement into a thriving town! Explore a vast world filled with secrets, memorable characters, and an ancient mystery waiting to be solved. Spectrakin is a modern love letter to classic monster-taming games.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Monitoball

Monitoball

Fyursol

A cozy sports-management game about building a team of adorable monitos. Scout, recruit, and manage your way to monitoball glory! Watch your little athletes train, chill, snack, and compete their way through the league. Build a powerhouse or raise a lovable underdog squad. Assemble a team you love!

CasualIndieSportSports
Project Creatures

Project Creatures

Ren

Project Creatures is a Multiplayer Creature Collection Game. Capture new creatures and battle your friends in a vast Open World!

ActionAdventureIndie
Zœufs Story Academie

Zœufs Story Academie

AmigauxCamz

Raise a Zanmi egg at the "Academie des Zœufs". Care for it, choose its activities and training, and build relationships with the other students to shape its growth in this character-raising simulation. What kind of Zanmi will you raise?

SimulationSimulator
Minimon: Tiny Idle Tactics

Minimon: Tiny Idle Tactics

Reign of Gaming, Bufflehead Studios

A tiny monster-taming auto-battler that lives in the corner of your screen, and they never stop grinding. Catch 90 Minimon, build busted team comps, and rake in loot while you work, browse, or play something else entirely. They battle. You profit.

CasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Evomon World

Evomon World

Beowulf, Lugu, Beowulfus Universum

Guide player and your monster friend on an journey of discovery, adventure and exploration.

RPGRole-playing (RPG)