Games like The Monster Breeder
If The Monster Breeder is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mordheim: City of the Damned, Gods of Sand and The Last Spell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and whimsical. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Monster Breeder: Turn-based fantasy gladiatorial game with monster breeding. Crossbreed various species to create monster hybrids for gladiatorial combat. Manipulate creatures’ traits with surgery, magic, and alchemy. Manage your enterprise, craft items and upgrade your base. Fight in the arena for gold and glory!
Players who liked The Monster Breeder also play
Steam players who put hours into The Monster Breeder also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Monster Breeder.
Top pick for The Monster Breeder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Monster Breeder.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
Gods of Sand
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Monster Breeder.
Second-strongest match for The Monster Breeder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Monster Breeder.
Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Monster Breeder.
Third-strongest match for The Monster Breeder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Monster Breeder.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Monster Breeder.
Ranked #4 for The Monster Breeder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Monster Breeder.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
MASSIVE CHALICE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Monster Breeder.
Ranked #5 for The Monster Breeder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Monster Breeder.
MASSIVE CHALICE is a tactical strategy game set on an epic timeline from Double Fine Productions. As the Immortal Ruler of the nation, you'll take command of its heroes, forge heroic marriages to strengthen your Bloodlines, and battle a mysterious enemy known as the Cadence in a 300 year war.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Monster Breeder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Monster Breeder.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Monster Breeder.
Ranked #7 for The Monster Breeder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Monster Breeder.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Monster Breeder.
Ranked #8 for The Monster Breeder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Monster Breeder.
The dramatic RPG Fuga: Melodies of Steel series is now complete!
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Monster Breeder
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Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Monster Breeder.
Reviewers of The Monster Breeder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and RPG with The Monster Breeder.
The legendary monster training duology, “Monster Rancher” and “Monster Rancher 2”, is back!
Age of Wonders
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Monster Breeder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Monster Breeder.
Welcome to Age of Wonders, the authentic turn based fantasy strategy classic that started the hit series. Age of Wonders’ intimate atmosphere with painterly graphics still shines today. The game’s fully patched up, start building your fantasy empire today!
Impossible Creatures Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Monster Breeder.
Reviewers of The Monster Breeder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Monster Breeder.
Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.
Total War: WARHAMMER III
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Monster Breeder.
Reviewers of The Monster Breeder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Monster Breeder.
The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Monster Breeder at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Monster Breeder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Monster Breeder.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Monster Breeder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Monster Breeder.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Monster Breeder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Monster Breeder.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under The Monster Breeder on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Monster Breeder.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Monster Breeder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Monster Breeder.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Monster Breeder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Monster Breeder.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Monster Breeder on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Monster Breeder.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Monster Breeder.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Monster Breeder.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Monster Breeder.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Monster Breeder.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Monster Breeder.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Monster Breeder.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Monster Breeder.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Monster Breeder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Monster Breeder.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Monster Breeder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Monster Breeder.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Monster Breeder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Monster Breeder.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Monster Breeder.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Monster Breeder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Monster Breeder.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
Frequently asked about The Monster Breeder
- Does The Monster Breeder run on Steam Deck?
- The Monster Breeder is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Monster Breeder cost?
- The Monster Breeder is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Monster Breeder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Monster Breeder are Mordheim: City of the Damned, Gods of Sand, The Last Spell.
- Who developed The Monster Breeder?
- The Monster Breeder was developed by Fantasy Creations.
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