As the youngest heir of an ancient bloodline of proud Monster Keepers, you step out into the world to follow in your ancestors' footsteps. You will gather a party of monsters to grow and train. Meanwhile, a series of unsettling events worries the experienced Keepers of the Monster Sanctuary. This is the beginning of a journey to unravel the cause of this mystery that threatens the peace between humans and monsters.

Monster Sanctuary is the idea of combining monster collecting, turn based combat and metroidvania-like exploration. Any monster you encounter can become a part of your own party. Additional monsters provide a lot of tactical options in combat or allow you to overcome certain obstacles to explore new areas.

Every monster has a unique skill tree. This lets you individualize your monster to pursue different strategies. Feeding and equipping your monsters to improve their stats further emphasizes this aspect.

The combo system gives additional depth to the combat. Each individual hit increases the damage of the next moves within the same combat turn. The loot system challenges you to find the quickest and most efficient way to end a battle - rewarding you with better loot. Grind and find the best combo to earn the rarest monster eggs!

Team17 and Moi Rai Games have launched the latest free update to adventure role-playing game, Monster Sanctuary, which includes a community-designed monster and online player-versus-player combat.

Currently in Steam Early Access, Monster Sanctuary features 3v3 turn-based combat set in a ‘metroidvania’-like world ripe for players to explore and monsters to collect. End game content reserved for fighters ranked at Keeper Lancer rank, obtainable after overcoming seven Champion Monsters, PvP combat will provide a challenge for the best of the best collectors.

Today’s update also brings PvP combat to the game for the very first time, allowing players to go head-to-head in online 3v3 battles with their monsters. Featuring matchmaking to provide a level of competitiveness and balance between combat, players can also make challenges to rivals directly through Steam.

The launch of the PvP update comes just weeks after the launch of Horizon Beach, which introduced a new area to explore, eight new monsters, a new story arc, and more.

Key Features:

• Strategical turn based combat
• Every monster has a unique skill tree. This lets you individualize your monster to pursue different strategies
• Feeding and equipping your monsters to improve their stats further emphasizes this aspect
• A combo system that gives additional depth to the combat
• Combat ratings that emphasises efficient combat completion
• Using monster abilities to unlock new areas

Monster Sanctuary is scheduled for release on PC in 2020.