Monster Loves You Too!

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"Monster Loves You Too!" is a narrative-driven game where players begin as a small creature and grow into a monster, making choices using FLESH, BRAIN, and GUTS resources. These choices determine your path in life, including joining gangs, forming alliances, and making ethical decisions. The game takes place in the fantastical city of Asch, where you'll navigate the alleys and interact with other monsters. Your actions and decisions shape your story and ultimately decide your place in the monster world.

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Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

100%

Audience ScoreBased on 52 reviews

story18 positive mentions

optimization1 negative mentions

The game is a significant improvement over its predecessor, featuring a larger, more imaginative world, fantastic stats balancing, and engaging characters.
The art style is exceptional, with hand-drawn visuals that enhance the storytelling and create a vibrant atmosphere.
The narrative is compelling and emotionally impactful, offering players meaningful choices that affect the outcome of the story.

Some players experienced issues with misclicking options and scaling problems with dialog boxes, which can hinder the gameplay experience.
The game has segments that are silent or lack appropriate music, which can detract from the overall immersion.
While the choices matter, some players felt that the linear narrative reduced the freedom compared to the original game.

story
42 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
43%
50%
7%
The game features a compelling and immersive story that deeply engages players, with a rich narrative and well-developed characters that evoke strong emotional connections. While it follows a more linear structure compared to its predecessor, the choices players make still have significant impacts, enhancing the overall experience. The hand-drawn art style and atmospheric music further elevate the storytelling, making it a memorable journey that blends resource management with a captivating visual novel format.
- “The story is far more compelling; you feel much more involved in the plot, and it makes you feel connected to the roster of main characters. Every action you take feels like it produces a response from the world that both makes sense and is an appropriate response or possible outcome.”
- “This game tells a story that I think I'll be thinking about for a long time.”
- “So it's like reading a storybook with a more mature narrative, with real stakes, heartache, hope, and triumph.”
- “While the storyline isn't as freeform/sandbox as the last game and actually follows a linear narrative this time, choices still somehow manage to be more impactful than the first game.”
- “This game was able to tell a more meaningful story than the first, even if it has less endings and less branching pathways.”
- “Also, since it's a hybrid of a resource management game and a mainly story-driven game, it means there's not always an obvious choice.”
graphics
16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
63%
38%
The graphics of the game are widely praised for their charming and unique art style, which evokes a storybook feel and enhances the overall narrative experience. Reviewers highlight the well-crafted artwork and colorful characters, noting that the visuals are not only engaging but also contribute significantly to the game's storytelling. Overall, the graphics are described as phenomenal, making the game a standout in terms of visual appeal.
- “The artwork is fantastic and the universe is full of colorful, lovable characters I'm itching to learn more about.”
- “It's cute, well crafted, and the art style is to die for.”
- “Loved the storybook art style and the music that amplifies events in the story.”
emotional
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The emotional aspect of the game is highly praised for its imaginative and compelling storytelling, which evokes a wide range of feelings from players, including laughter and tears. The well-developed characters, each with unique personalities and expressive speech bubbles, contribute to the game's deep emotional impact, culminating in a particularly moving ending that resonates strongly with players.
- “I cried so many times at so many parts.”
- “There is so much personality to the characters, with expressions ranging from hilarious to touching to terrifying, and they each have their own custom speech bubbles that resemble them (I love that!).”
- “Oh, and the ending made me cry.”
gameplay
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
75%
25%
The gameplay is praised for being a faithful successor to the original, combining charming visuals, engaging mechanics, and unique storytelling. Players appreciate the blend of resource management and visual novel elements, set in a richly immersive world filled with surprises. Overall, it is highly recommended for fans of lite RPG mechanics and those who enjoyed the original game.
- “As someone who loved the original Monster Loves You, this game is a faithful successor to what was already a gem of a game, that builds on the charming style, interesting mechanics, and unique storytelling in ways that absolutely blew my already high expectations out of the water.”
- “If you liked the original, or just feel like exploring a beautifully written story with a unique blend of resource management and visual novel mechanics, and a rich and immersive world that has surprises around every slimy monstrous corner, I cannot recommend this game enough.”
- “If you love lite RPG mechanics and resource control, this is a great game.”
humor
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game is described as imaginative and well-written, blending fun and emotional depth effectively. Characters exhibit a wide range of expressions, from hilarious to touching, enhanced by custom speech bubbles that reflect their personalities. Overall, the humor contributes significantly to the game's engaging and impactful narrative.
- “There is so much personality to the characters, with expressions ranging from hilarious to touching to terrifying, and they each have their own custom speech bubbles that resemble them (I love that!).”
- “Imaginative, compelling, deep, fun, funny, well-written, and surprisingly emotionally impactful.”
- “Also made a funny playthrough of mine if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.”
music
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
67%
17%
17%
The music in the game is generally praised as phenomenal and effectively enhances the storybook art style and narrative events. However, some users noted issues with segments being silent and music stopping at inopportune moments, detracting from the overall experience.
- “Music: phenomenal.”
- “Loved the storybook art style and the music that amplifies events in the story.”
- “My only complaints are that a good number of segments are silent, and sometimes where there is music, it stops at points where it would be appropriate or expected to continue.”
atmosphere
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game's atmosphere is highly praised for its vibrant and colorful world, which effectively changes and enhances the experience based on the player's progression in the story.
- “The world is colorful and has a great sense of atmosphere depending on where you are in the story.”
optimization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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50%
The game's optimization has been criticized for causing excessive GPU and power usage when played in fullscreen mode, prompting users to adjust settings through the NVIDIA control panel for better performance.
- “Fair warning: this game in fullscreen for some reason totally murdered my PC's GPU and power usage until I used the NVIDIA Control Panel to set it to performance settings.”