Monster Sanctuary

Monster Sanctuary

moi rai games · 2020 · Creature Collector, Pixel Graphics, Metroidvania, Turn-Based Tactics, Singleplayer

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About Monster Sanctuary

✦ AI summary

Explore a vast Metroidvania world while collecting and battling 111 unique monsters that help you solve environmental puzzles and overcome strategic combat encounters. Customize your team's abilities through skill trees, stack devastating combo attacks, and test your squad online against players worldwide or in challenging optional modes like Randomizer and Permadeath.

Master the Monster Sanctuary!


Delve deep into the Metroidvania inspired world of Monster Sanctuary, explore the expansive lands and call upon your monsters to lend their aid in and out of combat! Use their unique skills to fly, ride and brute force your way through environmental puzzles and precise platforming! The world is yours to traverse as you see fit, are you ready to take on the Sanctuary?

Collect, Evolve and Battle!


Your quest begins with a choice of an ancient spectral familiar, a wistful monster who will guide your first steps into the sanctuary. They will be by your side as you catch your first of 111 monsters. From here it is up to you to hatch, collect, evolve and train monsters from across the Sanctuary! Each possesses unique abilities and a skill tree for you to customise as your team grows in strength.

Battle it out in Strategic Combat!


Strategically order your attacks for maximum efficiency, stacking your attacks to deal devastating combos! Try out different team combinations and make use of synergies between your monsters. Encounter formidable foes, endurance challenges and train an unbeatable team!

Clash in PvP battles across the Globe!


Face off in a test of skill and ability in online player vs player! Gather and train monsters, max out their skill trees and take on friends and foes in an epic battle to have the last monsters standing!

Optional Game modes for more replayability


Added with the latest update, you can enable and combine optional Randomizer, Bravery and Permadeath game modes, making every playthrough a fresh and different experience.

DLC & expansions

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What Steam players say

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

Not recommended Jul 13, 2026
Jumped in a hole and didn't have an electric type move to open the door at the bottom. Cant get back out of the hole and i dont have items to teleport. Now im soft locked and my save is bricked as far as i can tell. Pretty bad level design.
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Recommended Jul 17, 2026
This game has surprised me consistently with its depth, intelligence, and yes, its heart. A perfect blend of Pokemon, Metroidvania, and Party-based RPG, "Monster Sanctuary" has been a delight from the first boot, despite grindy elements and a few RNG-dependent mechanics. This game awards exploration, experimentation, and even failure, as every encounter is a potential teaching moment which invites the player to reflect on his/her choices and ponder how to improve their performances. Platforming sections can be frustrating, as can some of the puzzles (especially the time-driven ones,) but nothing so far has been too difficult to completely discourage attempts. I have a seven-year-old, and he and I have thoroughly enjoyed our time with this title, and I have really appreciated how this game has bolstered his critical thinking skills, his memory recall, and his reading abilities. Overall, I think this game is a must-have for anyone who fondly remembers the joy of exploration in the original Metroid titles or anyone who wanted their Pokemon battles to rely on more than just a single monster's at-bat abilities. "Monster Sanctuary" is a joy to play, and I'm looking forward to delving eve…
Recommended Jul 16, 2026
Never in my life have a played a game as balanced as this, maybe Slay the Spire. Genuinely every single monster in this game is viable with the right combination and setup. It's a refreshing deviation from Pokemon, where you understand some mons are straight up better than others and some are almost unusable, let alone pre evolutions which don't even become a real mon until halfway through the game. This game takes everything great about Pokemon and strips its worst aspects away, leaving a smooth battle system and playthrough (xp is also doled out so ingeniously and fairly I couldn't believe it either, having played countless Pokemon games that mess it up every time). Amazing game.
Recommended Jul 13, 2026
great game but it dose have a little problem when you are trying not to lvl grind. If you dont lvl grind then you are most of the time under lvl, but everything is not that bad.
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
Great game. if you like RPG, Pixel Art and pokemons
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
Метроидвания это не мой жанр, но эта игра зашла очень хорошо за счет пошаговых боев, обилия монстров и вариантов их сборки. Для инди, очень хорошая вариативность. оптимизация, графика, музыка, все на должном уровне. Советую всем любителям пошаговых тактик. Есть только один минус: затягивает в стиле "ну еще один бой", время летит незаметно и можно забыть пойти спать.:)

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