Monster Crown
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 13.8h 31.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.72/hr
- Reviews
- 56% of 1,046 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
Dive into a dark world where monsters rule and make pacts with them to defeat an evil young woman seeking power. Hunt, battle, tame and breed monsters to create your own legacy. Together with your monsters, you can restore the balance to Crown Island.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 37 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Monster Sanctuary ($19.99, scores 84) outscores it, and so does Cassette Beasts ($19.99, scores 84). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Monster Crown
Of the 533 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 138 reviews written there were positive, against 56 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13.8 hours. Doing everything runs 32, 2.3 times as long.
The drop-off
64% 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
What players say
Nothing like a game so bad I can start the review before beating it. And oh brother, Monster Crown is bad, barely reaching the level of a gen 1 Pokemon romhack and struggling for beta if not alpha functionality. MC is a throwback, a 16-bit 2D game trying to look 8-bit with catchy if simplistic music, a strange little world to explore and a deeper than it seems system of gathering dozens of fun little monsters to dog...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Janky bug-ridden slow mess that can LITERALLY softlock your game in every menu. Slow prompt responses and inconsistent skip button mechanics means you are going to be missing a lot of important choices and dialogue options Worst of all the devs KNOW their game is a janky mess and still instead of fixing it they do a cash grab for a sequel. I wanted to like this game so bad, it promised so many good mechanics but...
i played sin eater first. since it was so good and i am awaiting the endgame updates, i decided to play the original while i waited. Very worth playing, there are a lot of things this game actually does better than the sequel. like the chief tamers and level capping. It does suffer from some indie game jank that can softlock your save but the developers did work out a solution with the press 9 to go home, which is...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Monster Crown scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/830370/monster-crownReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.