Monster Care Simulator
Worth it · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2025.
- Length
- 7.7h 37h to 100%
- Value
- $0.84/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 727 positive
Full price
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Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Manage a care center for adorable monsters in Monster Care Simulator! Treat clients' creatures, hatch eggs, raise your own companions, and keep them happy with fun activities. Hire staff, expand your facilities, and customize your space to build the ultimate monster sanctuary!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1050 / AMD R9 270X, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.49, set in August 2026. Across all 16 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TCG Card Shop Simulator ($19.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Teddy's Haven ($11.99, scores 65).
More about Monster Care Simulator
This site sampled 350 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 7.7 hours; clearing it takes 37, which is 4.8 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
87% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 9 when we last checked, on Oct 15, 07:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Not a bad game, but gets very repetitve after the first few hours. While I very much did enjoy playing for the first 4hrs, after that with some employees it is just a self ran store. And yes, of course you wouldnt need to hire them, and could proceed the hussle for yourself, but due to its repetition of the tasks, it gets kinda boring. So after the first few hours you tend to just become a monster breeder instead...
2 more reviews
Look at All These Chuds The Good [*]Super cute monster designs, and some are really weird and unique [*]All the interactions with the monsters are so adorable, the way they go up to you, dance, how they interact with toys and furniture, sometimes I find myself playing with them just because. Just throwing them and seeing them fall over is so pointlessly funny lol [*]The variations for the healing stations, while can...
A very cute game. Monsters are all unique and very enjoyable to look at. Finding Waldo is also quite easy in this game too.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Monster Care Simulator scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3288270/monster-care-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.