Monsters!

About Monsters!

Monsters! is a single player arcade shooter game. It was developed by QuadraTron Games and was released on October 25, 2016. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Monsters! is a dual stick shooter with a retro feel complete with pixel art and leaderboards to achieve that good ol’ arcade feel.

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Single-Player

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71%Audience ScoreBased on 21 reviews

graphics3 negative mentions

Addictive and enjoyable twin-stick shooter gameplay with a true arcade feel.
Simple controls that are easy to pick up, suitable for quick play sessions and time fillers.
Variety of enemies and power-ups with a challenging difficulty curve that some players find engaging.

Achievements are broken or non-functional, some tied to content behind paywalls no longer available.
Outdated and low-quality graphics with no customization options and clunky, unpolished controls.
Lacks depth, music, level selection, and long-term progression, leading to repetitive gameplay and low player retention.

music
9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33% positive mentions, 34% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions
The music in the game receives mixed feedback, with some users praising its quality and impact on the experience, while many criticize the lack of an original soundtrack, describing the game as feeling empty without music. Additionally, the default setting keeps music off, which some find unusual given its positive contribution.
- “Also, I absolutely love the music.”
- “For some reason, the music is set to off by default, and one has to manually go into settings to raise the volume.”
- “The music is so good and adds so much to the game while playing!”
- “The game feels empty because it has no music.”
- “It desperately needs a music soundtrack of some kind, and the game feels empty because of it.”
- “Achievements and leaderboards were the only reason to play this pointless, repetitive twin-stick shooter with crappy graphics and boring music.”
gameplay
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions
The gameplay revolves around shooting spirits to achieve high scores but suffers from janky controls and poor responsiveness, making it unsatisfying for experienced players. Although there is some minor resource management involved, the overall experience feels unpolished and lacking in depth.
- “Gameplay-wise, you'll find a little bit of micro resource management, as you'll eventually want to carefully choose when and where you fire instead of always blindly firing at everything.”
- “Gameplay is fun.”
- “Gameplay is just a matter of shooting as many spirits as you can to see how high your score goes.”
- “It's janky and unsatisfying to play. Any experienced gamer will tell you that the handling, responsiveness, and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed.”
- “Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing.”
- “Gameplay is just a matter of shooting as many sprites as you can to see how high your score goes.”
graphics
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50% positive mentions, -25% neutral mentions, 75% negative mentions
The graphics are widely criticized for being outdated and low quality, relying on retro pixel art instead of modern visuals. Additionally, the game lacks resolution options or customizable graphics settings, limiting players' ability to enhance the visual experience.
- “There are no options to change the resolution for the game or customize the graphics settings.”
- “There's no way for gamers to try to improve the low quality graphics.”
- “A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel art as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics.”
- “There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings.”
- “There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics.”