Cassette Beasts

Cassette Beasts Review - Monster Collecting Master!

Cassette Beasts blends the best of JRPGs and monster taming games to create something new, and it pays off incredibly well. While the story may be on the shorter side for JRPG lovers, there's more than enough to love about the game.

Collect awesome monsters to use during turn-based battles in this open-world RPG. Combine any two monster forms using Cassette Beasts’ Fusion System to create unique and powerful new ones! PC version reviewed.

Believe it or not, there are a lot of us out there that think Pokémon is an incredibly lame franchise. I love JRPGs, but when Pokémon first came to North America in the late 90s, I thought the gameplay was too simple, and the aesthetic was too ugly. The Super Nintendo, and PS1 both had so many great JRPGs, and the insanely popular Pokémon games felt like they were designed for very young children ...

Cassette Beasts is classic Pokémon expertly remixed for those who feel they have aged out of the series' target audience.

A modern monster catcher RPG that brings lots of smart evolutions to almost every Poké-like system you can imagine.

Cassette Beasts is simply one of the best Pokémon-like games I’ve come across, and I’m looking forward to earning a 100% completion. With a massive end-game and modder support built in at release though, I feel like I’m going to get very sidetracked on the way there.

Cassette Beasts feels very genuine. Whilst you can tell where the inspiration for certain choices has come from, the soundtrack, characters and story are all entertaining and heartfelt in a way that separates it from being just another Pokémon clone.

We still have a lot of adventuring left to do in New Wirral, and we’re in no way upset about it. More monsters to record and remaster, a few more mysteries to uncover, characters to grow fond of, and about 13,970 more fusions to see. Some (hopefully pre-launch-only) performance issues, wonky balance, and overly complex battle mechanics did little to affect how much we enjoyed Cassette Beasts. In f...

Cassette Beasts is one of the best and most entertaining monster-collecting games outside of Pokémon. Not since Monster Tale on the DS have I had so much fun capturing monsters and this being a blend of a Pokémon formula with a more grounded, realistic slice of life anime puts enough of a twist on the formula to make it feel fresh. It plays like a dream and is a ton of fun even for those burned ou...

Cassette Beasts is a great take on the monster catching/battling genre with some interesting new ideas and refinement of some others. It has a couple very small hiccups on Steam Deck, but these are easy to overlook and I would highly recommend the game on-the-go!

Cassette Beasts works best when subverting monster hunting traditions, rather than following them