Developer - Oskar81 (they made a slippery adventure last year!)

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First off: making a pokemon-like is HARD. This game is alright, but falls into a lot of the pitfalls that come from trying to make a (not)pokemon game. The writing feels kind of stilted and kind of off to me that makes it hard to get into. fighting alongside your monster is a neat idea but the whole system is kinda clunky and hard to get around. the level scaling is slow and grindy, especially once you get the quest to beat 10 of one kind of monster. the hub and spoke style of the main town and the areas extending from it is economical from a development perspective but god the backtracking. the maps (especially the forest) are hard to parse with no clear intended path (i actually thought the forest was just one room for a bit when i started).