Games like Essentia: A monster catching adventure
If Essentia: A monster catching adventure is your kind of game, the closest matches are Siralim Ultimate, Stories of Somnia and Born In Reverie — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Essentia: A monster catching adventure: Isometric dungeon crawler with procedurally generated levels. A wide variety of cute monster characters to collect. A turn-based battle system with unique mana mechanic. Uncover the secrets of the calamity that has left this world in chaos.
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Siralim Ultimate
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Top pick for Essentia: A monster catching adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Essentia: A monster catching adventure.
Siralim Ultimate is a monster-catching, dungeon-crawling RPG with a ridiculous amount of depth. Summon over 1200 different creatures and travel through randomly generated dungeons to acquire resources, new creatures, and loot.
Stories of Somnia
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Second-strongest match for Essentia: A monster catching adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Essentia: A monster catching adventure.
Stories of Somnia is an exploration-first JRPG with the bones of a Metroidvania. Use spells to grapple across gaps, change the rules of combat, and reshape the world around you. Collect memory-born companions called Dreamkin and uncover a story about grief, time, and the courage to rest.
Born In Reverie
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Third-strongest match for Essentia: A monster catching adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Essentia: A monster catching adventure.
Lead Dani and the Guardians on their mission to eradicate the Beasts. Discover the characters and culture of a world built to defend themselves from a perpetual and deadly threat. Fight the Beasts in modern turn-based battles, and experience a character-driven narrative in this indie RPG.
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Ranked #4 for Essentia: A monster catching adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Essentia: A monster catching adventure.
The usual renowned heroes have been captured, and it's up to the backup squad to save them! Create your protagonist, recruit a team of replacement heroes, and navigate through maze-like caves in this turn-based JRPG dungeon crawler.
Dungeoneers Idle
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Ranked #5 for Essentia: A monster catching adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Essentia: A monster catching adventure.
An endless idle RPG with no level cap and no finish line. Build a party of heroes, hand them skills and gear, then let them fight, loot and level their way through procedurally generated dungeons on their own.
Crystal Project 2
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Ranked #6 for Essentia: A monster catching adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Essentia: A monster catching adventure.
Crystal Project 2 is a non-linear JRPG with a seamless open world and telegraphed tactical combat. Find new classes, learn new abilities, and collect powerful equipment to customize your party and uncover the mysteries of the land. No random encounters and no permanent missables.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
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Ranked #7 for Essentia: A monster catching adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Essentia: A monster catching adventure.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan
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Ranked #8 for Essentia: A monster catching adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Essentia: A monster catching adventure.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a wholesome, creature capture, 2.5D Adventure-Puzzle-Platformer with over 30 hours of gameplay!
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- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Essentia: A monster catching adventure are Siralim Ultimate, Stories of Somnia, Born In Reverie.
- Who developed Essentia: A monster catching adventure?
- Essentia: A monster catching adventure was developed by Kernel Iron.
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