Reminiscent of digital pets of old, this retro style game sees you recruiting or capturing monsters to take care of them for the Dungeon Master; treat ailments, heal wounds, feed, clean, or train them!

Not enough? Send them on quests or to take part in epic battles! You can even give out your monster code to let people fight against your common or rare monsters (quest monsters are far to rare to let out of your sight!)

Still want more? Each monster comes with 2 frame animations, unique values for their 2 stats based on their level, and a hidden potential meter!

Make sure you feed and clean your monsters regularly, as if you don't they can die off within 4 days without your care. Favoured monsters can be brought back to life though with the resurrection stone (if you can find one)! 

Game Controls:

  • Arrow keys to select option
  • X or V to select option
  • Ctrl+M to turn off sounds
  • Enter to option Menu (to toggle mouse support)

Mobile Controls:

  • Very similar except in the virtual handset the O button represents the Z key

Controllers:

  • You can use any game controllers recognized by SDL with PICO-8

Browser Edition:

The free-to-play browser version contains 9 monsters; 3 common, 3 rare, 3 quest related. Quests take 20 hours to complete, and random events occur every 2.5 to 5 minutes.

Demo Edition:

A downloadable version of the free-to-play browser edition available for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Raspberry Pi.

Premium Edition:

Purchasing the game will grant access to standalone downloads for Linux, Mac, Windows and Raspberry Pi. The download versions reduce quest time down from 20 hours to 4 hours, increases the rate of random events to one every 2-4 minutes, adds 11 monster evolutions, and increases your stable from 5 to 10 monsters. Source code is not included.

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In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $0.49 USD. You will get access to the following files:

monster_trainer_premium_v1-0-1_all.zip 6 MB
monster_trainer_premium_v1-0-1_windows.zip 1 MB
monster_trainer_premium_v1-0-1_linux.zip 704 kB
monster_trainer_premium_v1-0-1_osx.zip 3 MB
monster_trainer_premium_v1-0-1_raspi.zip 1 MB

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monster_trainer_free_v1-0-1_all.zip 6 MB

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Hi! I bought the bundle you posted yesterday for the creator day. Were all the games in it meant to be the premium versions or was it meant to be a mix and match? Just wondering as this, NOG Arcade, Nano4X and Reel Explorers came up as the demo versions when I went to install them

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Hi, there should be additional bundles for the three games, for example NOG Arcade is under a different download name, premium_arcade_all.zip. Double check if you grabbed the right files, and not just the demo files. If there is still a problem let me know and I can help guide you to the right files. Also, if I have packaged them wrong also let me know and I will get them fixed right away!

Hi! I looked at the bundle page instead of the Itch Io launcher and it worked this time, I should've checked there first!

Thanks for the help

No worries, any other problems just let me know.