Cartridge Monsters

Cartridge Monsters

Happenstance Games · February 5, 2021 · PvE, Creature Collector, Adventure, RPG, VR

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Cartridge Monsters price

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About Cartridge Monsters

Cartridge Monsters is a VR Creature Collector. Capture and train over 65 unique monsters and navigate through four expansive dungeons, two in each town. Defeat formidable bosses and thwart the evil Django.

Cartridge Monsters — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Nov 13, 2025
Игра 'Cartridge Monsters' – это увлекательная смесь коллекционирования монстров и пошаговых боев, выполненная в приятной пиксельной стилистике. Игровой процесс затягивает с первых минут: поиск и приручение монстров, комбинирование их способностей и создание непобедимой команды – все это доставляет огромное удовольствие. Несмотря на свою простоту, игра обладает достаточной глубиной. Разнообразие монстров, каждый со своими уникальными характеристиками и способностями, требует стратегического подхода к формированию команды. Бои достаточно тактичны и заставляют думать на несколько ходов вперед. Отдельно хочется отметить атмосферу игры. Nostalgic pixel art и приятное музыкальное сопровождение отлично передают дух классических RPG, вызывая приятные воспоминания. Минусы, конечно, есть, но они незначительны. Иногда встречаются гринд, а интерфейс мог бы быть немного более интуитивным. В целом, 'Cartridge Monsters' – отличная игра для любителей жанра, которая способна затянуть на долгие часы. Рекомендую!
Recommended Oct 13, 2025
Awesome Game, has basic concepts and cool voice attacking. I cant wait to play the next version!
Recommended Sep 9, 2025
I've got mixed throughts on this one. I do enjoy the game a lot from what I played of it. The battles are bit slow for a monster catching game even slower then standard pokemon by a bit but it isnt to bad. Voice control is nice to command them. Issues I have I've noticed when I heal non of my back team I can switch too gets healed at all so any monsters I used then swaped to the back for 3 fresh ones I have to swap to each team to heal them. Also the first boss is way over powered I went through fighting no problem the mini bosses and such but then got to the boss of the 1st dungeon and he was doing 300-400 dmg a hit when i was used to getting hit for 100-150 by the mini boss before hand and i've got a lvl 14 and two lvl 13s vs a lvl 15. Getting two shotted and no way to out heal it makes it very discouragering. The second part is the auto save system it seems to have doesnt work. it never auto saved once so I lost all my progress cause I throught it did work. I noticed the bosses seem to have more like then thier health meter case an point the dragon the broken whatever his name. I did over 500 dmg to it before its health bar started going down for me. Also It's hard to tell w…
Not recommended Sep 7, 2025
"Cartridge Monsters" is a weird Pokemon ripoff (How's that Palworld court case going? Nintendo do love their lawyers) that's more of a VR tech demo than a full game. Despite not being in Early Access this is obviously incomplete and the developer isn't working on it. But, don't worry, they're grateful for all the money they got off gamers, and they're keeping it all, no refunds, suckers. What do you do in the game? It's kind of a first person Palworld ripoff but you get to wave your arms around in VR and you can give voice commands without having to go buy Voice Attack I guess... gimmicks that might have helped if this was a fully developed game, but it isn't. I'm not sure if this is an asset flip, but it's one of those cases where the assets just look much better than the rest of the quality of the game... a glaring inconsistency. There's no evidence, but as always, the biggest problem with asset flips besides the plagiarism is the deplorably low quality of the other aspects of the game, and even if the game assets are genuinely created for the game, the quality of the rest of the game is indistinguishable from that of asset flips. It's VR exclusive, and that shows the de…
Recommended Jul 26, 2025
I tried to play the game but when I got on the menu my hands were just on the floor and I am unsure how to fix this even resetting the guardian and view it still did not work I would appreciate some help thank you.
Recommended Oct 17, 2023
Fun if you like pokemon but better

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