Always Sometimes Monsters
Vagabond Dog · 2014 · Indie, RPG, Story Rich, Pixel Graphics, Choices Matter
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About Always Sometimes Monsters
You're broke, heartbroken, and desperate to win back your ex before they marry someone else—so you hit the open road and make a series of morally complex choices that will define who you become. Your decisions in conversations and actions reshape the narrative based on your character's gender, race, and sexuality, creating a deeply personal story where empathy and ethical choices matter more than combat.
Out of money and out of luck you find yourself heart broken and on the verge of collapse. Your landlord's taken the key back, you can't finish your manuscript, and your beloved is marrying someone else. With no choice but to handle whatever life throws at you, you set out on the open road on a mission to win back the love of your life. The story from there is up to you. Can your life be salvaged, or are we always sometimes monsters?
Choice
A story-driven experience focusing on relationships and emotional bonds rather than traditional RPG combat and adventuring. Indecision is your enemy and empathy is your weapon in a quest to earn one last chance to win back the love of your life.
Circumstance
Choose from characters of different gender, race, and sexual preference and live through the common experiences and unique hardships of each based on your selection. NPCs may treat you differently based on your gender, race, or sexual preference opening and closing different paths along the way.
Consequence
Each playthrough is filled with a staggering number of diverging paths that can be discovered through both overt actions and subtle choices in conversation. The journey you experience will be tailored to your personal ethical compass as your decisions both conscious and subconscious change your fate.
Download the original Always Sometimes Monsters soundtrack by LASER DESTROYER TEAM featuring 15 remastered tracks from the game. Available on Bandcamp.
Mature Content Warning
Always Sometimes Monsters deals with serious stuff, depending on your choices. Including strong language, racist, homophobic, and transphobic language, drug / alcohol use, nudity, violence, and extreme subject matter.
What Steam players say
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U couldnt imagine of how forgotten this game is in 2026 and it still is playable, this is one of the best games that i had ever played in 20264 found this helpful
Not very good, reads like a first draft. Why did I buy this in 2014?3 found this helpful
I feel the same about this game, that Peter Griffin feels about "The Godfather."1 found this helpful
this games great i loved the mini games and gameplay. i find myself thinking about this game alot i think i might pick up the 2nd one.
so bad its like all the worst parets of a kevin smith movie. all the boring relationship talk i guess if you know your going into an indie romance movie walking sim. ppl like me played 10 hrs! thinking the story would finally start.... 2/10 nah 1 ... yeah 1
This was a game I played a long time ago as a teen on my friend's account. It stuck with me for a very long time, so I had to come back and play it again as an adult. This is going to be from the perspective of someone who pursued writing as a semi-career, as well, although I will say working on a second book is somehow harder than working on the first. I also didn't grow up with a lot of money-- we relied on foodbanks and foodstamps to get by. All that to say, I related a lot to the characters and stories in this game. Spoilers from here on out. [b]- PROS -[/b] I wouldn't say this game is realistic in the sense that you might break into someone's house at some point, but all the problems that the game brings up are real. Not only with poverty and drug addiction, but also in some conclusions to storylines. The detail that both politicians are being supported by Microshaft is something I love a lot, because it reflect how the American politics actually work behind the scenes. That is-- they're mostly corrupt liars who are doing whatever they want just to get their way. I think my favorite thing about that detail, however, is that there's a chance you might not even notice it. It's…
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