Monkey King Saga

Monkey King Saga

T-Rex Games · December 1, 2015 · Indie, Strategy, Action, Adventure, RPG

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Monkey King Saga costs $2.99 in Georgia (USD), £3.99 in the United Kingdom, $4.99 in the United States, €4.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$5.49 in Canada, NZ$5.99 in New Zealand and R$10.49 in Brazil right now.

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Georgia (USD) $2.99 $2.99 — 1
United Kingdom £3.99 £3.99 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €4.99 €4.99 — 1
Canada CA$5.49 CA$5.49 — 1
New Zealand NZ$5.99 NZ$5.99 — 1
Brazil R$10.49 R$10.49 — 1

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About Monkey King Saga

✦ AI summary

Monkey King Saga blends action and tower defence together as you control three hero characters—the Monkey King, Pigsy, and Sandy—across hand-painted ancient Chinese landscapes to protect Tripitaka on his quest for sacred scrolls. Command moveable heroes with RTS-style controls, recruit ally monsters, master RPG upgrades, and battle over 50 unique enemies across six story chapters filled with iconic characters from Journey to the West.

Monkey King Saga is a new style "action tower defence" game featuring the theme from the Journey to the West story.

As fans of tower defence games, our goal is to bring a new gameplay experience to the TD genre, by mixing action and TD together into a beautifully crafted visual story, that uses RTS style controls for moving heroes.

In Monkey King Saga, players can play as their favourite characters the Monkey King, Pigsy and Sandy as they journey across ancient China protecting Tripitaka the Monk, on their quest to Vulture Peak to retrieve the sacred scrolls.

FEATURES
-RTS style mouse controls for easy play.
-Control up to 3 moveable hero towers, each with their own skills and special attacks.
-Collect and upgrade monsters as Ally tower support.
-Over 23 hand-painted scenes.
-Narrative story over 6 themed chapters.
-RPG system for hero upgrades.
-Ton of enemies. Over 50 unique characters including favorites from the story such as the Bull Demon King, Spider Demoness, and the Iron Fan Princess.
-Heaps of heavenly bombs and potions to give extra support during battles.
-Optimised graphics and visual effects for 1080p including effects water, lightning, and snow.

Monkey King Saga is a 3D game built on Unity game engine.

Monkey King Saga — 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.

✦ AI summary

Monkey King Saga attempts a tower defense experience with some engaging fundamentals, but players report severe balancing issues that undermine progression, including towers becoming prohibitively expensive to level and largely ineffective compared to heroes, forcing repetitive grinding on earlier levels. While the core concept shows promise, the broken mechanics and difficulty scaling problems leave players frustrated, with most suggesting the game needs substantial fixes before being worth your time.

Not recommended Apr 1, 2016
At first this game seemed like a fun and different take on tower defense though in no way groundbreaking. Then the difficulty after the first few levels ramped up so I had to grind on earlier levels to earn money to level my characters and towers. Then I realized the balancing is terrible. You have heroes and towers you can level up, but if you level up a tower it becomes more expensive so if you level it too high then it may even become practically unusable, especially on earlier levels. Not to mention the towers are generally garbage compared to your heroes. In late levels the only real use they have is to slow enemies down - killing any enemy with a tower that has not also been hit by your hero is very unlikely. The game does a fair amount of the fundamentals of TD right enough that it really makes you realize that the difference between a mediocre game and a great game is often in the small details. Let's explore what else makes MKS medicre instead of even good with a question you never asked: How do you progress in the game? Grind grind grind. It was not fun. I played the same level over and over again early in the game maybe 50 times so I could upgrade my weapon. I'm not p…
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Not recommended Mar 12, 2016
this game is soooo broken would recommend if they fix it
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