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Back in 2020, developer Mo Rai Games and publisher Team 17 released a monster-taming RPG meets Metroidvania where you collect, train, and battle monsters in a pixel world called Monster Sanctuary. This was the debut release for the former, who has since put out Aethermancer in 2025, a spirtual successor that replaes the Metroidvania element with roguelite elements.
Monster-Taming RPG Meets Metroidvania
Monster Sanctuary boasts a Metacritic range of 74 to 83, which are solid returns, but perhaps undersell the game. While there aren’t user reviews on the Nintendo eShop to provide insight into the game’s quality, there are elsewhere. For example, on Steam there are 4,848 user reviews, and 92% of these reviews are positive. As a result, the RPG has a “Very Positive” rating, the second highest rating a game can earn on the platform.
As noted, Monster Sanctuary offers up to 50 hours of content for completionists who want to squeeze every bit of content out of the Nintendo Switch game. Those who prefer to just mainline games and beat them as quickly as possible will still get a very meaty 30 hours out of the game. Add in side content, and this figure is closer to 40 hours. At $5, this is an insane amount of content per dollar. To put this value into context, this is $0.10 per hour of content if played to the maximum 50 hour mark.
