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Disc Creatures

AdventureIndieRPG

Developer PICORINNE SOFT

Capture and battle over 200 unique creatures in this retro-inspired monster-collecting RPG. Copy their powers with the revolutionary DiscKid and build your dream team. Explore a vibrant world where humans live alongside mysterious creatures in an unforgettable adventure full of secrets and strategy. From the Steam store page

194 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 29, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

84
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153 positive · 29 negative
95% range 78–89%

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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
162 of 191 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What players are saying

84% recommend · 154 yes, 29 no

Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 183 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (197 of 238 positive).

Players praise Disc Creatures as a nostalgic monster collector that captures the feel of Game Boy Color era Pokemon. [1][2][3] Many reviewers note the game is not a Pokemon clone, with unique 3v3 battles and a Dragon Quest Monsters influence. [4][5][6] Some players criticize late-game grind and leveling issues, with new creatures starting at level 1. [7][8][9]

Liked
  • Charming retro visuals and music evoke Game Boy Color nostalgia. [10][11][12]
  • Unique 3v3 battle system and transparent mechanics improve on Pokemon formula. [4][13][14]
  • Large roster of 200 creatures with fun designs and fusion mechanic. [15][7][16]
  • Engaging story with heartwarming moments and witty dialogue. [2][6][17]
Disliked
  • Late-game becomes grindy and tedious, especially in ice cave. [7][18][8]
  • New creatures start at level 1, making them less useful later. [15][8][9]
  • Limited display options and no fullscreen by default. [10][19]
  • Some players find the game frustrating due to difficulty spikes. [18][20]
Representative posts
  • [8]Steam user Steam user …8213Steam review · Jan 5, 2022 · Not recommended

    Most of the positive reviews of this game didn't play it through to the end. Although this game has a lot of potential, it squanders it in late-game where its poor core design choices become amplified and ruin it. Your team consists of only three creatures, and all newly recruited creatures join you at level 1. Even though a level-acceleration feature is available, it caps at about half the level of late-game …

  • [1]Steam user Steam user …5131Steam review · Oct 18, 2019 · Recommended

    Monster collecting RPGs are my favorite games. My love for this genre stems back to Pokemon and Dragon Quest Monsters for the Game Boy (Color), a system which obviously won't see any new releases ever again. Sure, systems and games evolve and there are new ones with nicer graphics and amazing soundtracks - yet here I am, craving games that look and sound like they came out 20 years ago, because I can't quite get the …

  • [4]Steam user Steam user …4609Steam review · Jan 21, 2020 · Recommended

    Okay, so you need to know up-front that this is not pokemon. Yes, it is aggressively marketed as being pokemon, and all of its visuals are determined to convince you that it is pokemon, and this is a huge misstep on the part of the creator. Disc Creatures is not pokemon, and the sooner you get that out of your head the better the odds that you'll enjoy it. It *is* a good game, but if you go in expecting the things …

  • [2]Steam user Steam user …3026Steam review · Dec 8, 2021 · Recommended

    I never make Steam reviews, but for this game.. I had to. Wow. What a hidden gem this game is. This might just be my favorite Steam game I've ever played. The dialogue, the music, the story - it all gives me chills.. This game is so well made you can tell how hard the developer worked on it and the thought that went into it. It even had me in tears at one point. As a huge Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow fan, i highly …

  • [7]Steam user Steam user …6067Steam review · Nov 1, 2021 · Recommended

    There's a 200 monsters and cool story to play through. Incredible feat for 1 developer. The Red/Blue nostalgia feels amazing. I love all the surprise events and mini quests. The possibility to grant Fusion Recipes as the special price instead of boring regular items pumps me up, because collecting monsters ultimately is what makes these games addictive. After the fourth chapter the gameplay becomes grindy and …

Summarised from 34 of the 195 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made

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Disc Creatures sits at 84% positive across 182 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?

Reactions

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  • Steam user Steam user …5131Steam reviews · Oct 18, 2019 · 15 h played

    Monster collecting RPGs are my favorite games. My love for this genre stems back to Pokemon and Dragon Quest Monsters for the Game Boy (Color), a system which obviously won't see any new releases ever again. Sure, systems and games evolve and there are new ones with nicer graphics and amazing soundtracks - yet here I am, craving games that look and sound like they came out 20 years ago, because I can't quite get the same sense of wonder out of modern stuff. I'm eternally thankful for indie…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4609Steam reviews · Jan 21, 2020 · 18 h played

    Okay, so you need to know up-front that this is not pokemon. Yes, it is aggressively marketed as being pokemon, and all of its visuals are determined to convince you that it is pokemon, and this is a huge misstep on the part of the creator. Disc Creatures is not pokemon, and the sooner you get that out of your head the better the odds that you'll enjoy it. It *is* a good game, but if you go in expecting the things it's setting you up to expect, you're going to have a bad time. For folks who…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7004Steam reviews · Oct 17, 2019

    The game looks and sounds amazing, but why limit us to a tiny window? I want to see my creatures in all their glory! press ALT + ENTER while the game's loading to go fullscreen btw F12 also lets you soft reset your game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9964Steam reviews · Aug 5, 2021 · 16 h played

    I wish there was a neutral rating, but if I had to lean more towards whether or not I'd recommend this game, sadly, it would be no. Disc Creatures is a game I was looking forward to play for quite some time, and while I did enjoy my time with it, it does have a number of things that make the game rather tedious and frustrating to play. First off, Disc Creatures is not really a Pokemon clone. It may look like it on the surface, but it soon becomes apparent after just a few minutes of playing…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8213Steam reviews · Jan 5, 2022 · 25 h played

    Most of the positive reviews of this game didn't play it through to the end. Although this game has a lot of potential, it squanders it in late-game where its poor core design choices become amplified and ruin it. Your team consists of only three creatures, and all newly recruited creatures join you at level 1. Even though a level-acceleration feature is available, it caps at about half the level of late-game enemies. There is no other way to provide experience besides being in your…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0360Steam reviews · Dec 15, 2021 · 5 h played

    This game does have some potential, but ultimately falls flat. The graphics are cute, similar to what you'd expect from a Game Boy Color game. The music is fine. The game gives you a tutorial at the start on the controls and how to use things in the game, including your creatures. Don't be alarmed at being unable to open a menu first thing - the game eventually will let you do this and save and it's not far into the game, either. You'll also have the option of having multiple save files if…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9404Steam reviews · Oct 18, 2021 · 191 h played

    Solely comparing it to Pokemon or DQM and writing it off as a "clone" is too reductive and unhelpful. Disc Creatures deserves much more attention. This game does a lot to provide a unique identity and experience, but it definitely wears its influences on its sleeve. I didn't grow up exactly during the original Gameboy or Gameboy Color, so while I would describe the game as definitely "nostalgic," it isn't exactly nostalgic for me personally. For me the game stands on its own without the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4086Steam reviews · Aug 26, 2021 · 26 h played

    Pokemon is a very important part of my childhood. I love the concept behind it. There are so many unique creatures which I can potentially use and try to craft my own team and beat the game. However, in my opinion, Pokemon as a series has stagnated and hasn't offered much more than the original games despite cost twice as much now. Thankfully, there are many games which are being developed recently which seek to fill Pokemon's niche while innovating on the genre. Disc Creatures does this by…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1208Steam reviews · Mar 2, 2020 · 30 h played

    A Pokemon-inspired game that successfully set itself apart. After being disappointed with Pokemon Sword and Shield (SwSh) and deciding that I won’t pick up any future Pokemon games anymore if it refuses to improve, I decided to set out to find another monster tamer/collector games out there. Yeah I’ll miss catching my favorite Pokemon, but SwSh wasn’t worth $60 to me and there will certainly be other games that will scratch that same itch. So as I wait for TemTem to release on the Switch and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9742Steam reviews · Oct 20, 2019 · 12 h played

    Disc Creatures feels like a heavily inspired pokemon game but it's not even close. It's incredibly unique in it's story telling,jokes and gameplay. Bosses require a lot of thought and at times you might need to switch out monsters to get the right set up. It's difficult but not unforgiving. This is easily one of my new favorite monster-catching games.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9526Steam reviews · Jul 3, 2024 · 46 h played

    I'm really, really torn about this game. I first left a positive review, and my bottom line was "Don't try to catch everything. Don't look for secrets. Don't bother with postgame. It's not worth it. If you ignore all that, you'll probably have a decent time." On second thought, though, it's probably a lot to ask. Here's the thing : don't pick this up expecting a regular retro game degree of jankiness. Disc Creatures unironically feels like it was designed to be as inconvenient as possible in…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2437Steam reviews · Dec 5, 2022 · 23 h played

    A game that had a lot of potential, but quickly lost steam after the early chapters. Too many times I had to brute force my way through levels with tons of healing items between battles because of the sheer gauntlets that they throw at you of wild creatures between healing stations. Also the story is by far the best at episode 2, and dies off after that, from what little there is in the later episodes. When you capture creatures, they are put to level 1, and there is a cafe that can get them…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4759Steam reviews · Oct 23, 2019 · 1 h played

    The first thing I have to lay down is that this is NOT a Pokemon clone; ...it's a Dragon Warrior/Quest Monsters clone. There's no evolution and the game uses the "catch the monster by using items to increase the chance you'll get it after the fight" system. Pokemon franchise refugees are definitely welcome here, though. Anywho, the game seems great so far, minus some minor control quirks that almost seem like they're put in there on purpose to emulate older games a little better. EDIT: Eww,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0634Steam reviews · Sep 1, 2024 · 10 h played

    Its not all bad, the Mon's are okay, and there's a lot of quality of life stuff like the cafe that lets you pay to level up your mon's - with each tier unlocking as you get further into the game. So its not like you have to completely start from scratch if you want to mix up your team, but the game is still very grind-heavy. Sometimes, it feels like anything less than 5 memory sticks and you won't get a capture, so you have to build up a cash reserve to keep buying items, but most of your money…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0607Steam reviews · Oct 23, 2022 · 1 h played

    As with most monster collectors, this game has some design changes from the classic pokemon formula which only make it an inferior game, unfortunately. It does have some charm but in the end you'll be wondering why they didn't just copy pokemon harder. You start by selecting 3 monsters for your party, which fills all the slots available. 3 party member limit is very underwhelming, considering you'll find a bunch of new creatures you want to use at the cost of benching your starters. Combat is…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8534Steam reviews · Dec 20, 2019

    Doesnt have good controller support and no in game options menu. Get this game ONLY AND if you ONLY plan to pay at your desktop with your keyboard.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8077Steam reviews · Apr 1, 2024 · 4 h played

    A tedious grindfest fraught with large difficulty spikes and rinse-and-repeat gameplay. It's a shame good writing is buried under this repetitive "pokemon clone"

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  • Steam user Steam user …6739Steam reviews · May 27, 2020 · 9 h played

    What originally seems like a fun return to a game series like Dragon Warrior Monsters quickly becomes ruined thanks to some truly strange systems the game introduces. The energy system, while fun in theory, gauging the how much each move costs in order to land a guaranteed critical hit when the enemy must recharge is ruined by the "Lucky!" system they have in place. Every turn the enemy has a chance to recover huge amounts of this energy and land random critical blows depending on how much luck…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1377Steam reviews · Mar 26, 2024 · 11 h played

    Griding is awful. Difficulty spikes make it not worth it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2609Steam reviews · Jun 14, 2021 · 114 h played

    Haven't done everything yet, still missing a few creatures (~92% done) but i'll share my thoughts so far: Pro: +A good roster of 200 creatures, with fun/interesting designs +Varied Locations, having the colour scheme change according to locations is nice. +A decent story, not all that exciting but did it's job alright. Con: -Too little difference in stats for early game to late game/rare/hard to get creatures -All creatures you get starts at lvl 1, so getting creatures at later locations…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3026Steam reviews · Dec 8, 2021 · 49 h played

    I never make Steam reviews, but for this game.. I had to. Wow. What a hidden gem this game is. This might just be my favorite Steam game I've ever played. The dialogue, the music, the story - it all gives me chills.. This game is so well made you can tell how hard the developer worked on it and the thought that went into it. It even had me in tears at one point. As a huge Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow fan, i highly recommend Disc Creatures. It really brings me back to my childhood when I was sitting…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1657Steam reviews · Oct 18, 2019 · 4 h played

    For someone who loves creature collecting, this game satisfies that itch to the fullest. It's obviously extremely comparable to Pokemon, but it improves upon that formula by making game mechanics more transparent as well as getting rid of some antiquated mechanics like the move reminder/deleter, name rater, etc. Additionally, if you've been dissatisfied with the poor writing in recent Pokemon games, this should be a nice refresher. It actually feels like playing Pokemon for the first time…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2946Steam reviews · Oct 17, 2019 · 4 h played

    Pretty good! Needs some display resolution options, keybindings, and a few Steam Achievements. And maybe a some tweaks to the in game menus... they're a bit annoying for me at least.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8274Steam reviews · Dec 3, 2024

    Never. I would never recommend this. It's been out for 5 years, with a provided copyright in the title screen of 2017 AND 2019. So it's been worked on for what, 7 years at least? Guess what. You either play in a small window that's literally the size of a GBC screen, or you play fullscreen. There is no in-between. The settings menu is a slider from 0-100 for Background Music and Sound Effects. That's it. 5 years since release and my choices are either to squint at the screen as I play and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1693Steam reviews · Sep 27, 2023 · 23 h played

    The game is basically 4 years old, meaning that everyone who should have played it probably already has, but I wanted to at least offer my two cents. Disc Creatures is a game which desires to relive the simplistic days of the original Pokemon games on the Game Boy while offering something new and unique. It is a game that seemingly wishes to capture both the moments of our jejune childhoods while also reminding us of things we experience in the world now as adults. I put in about 23 hours and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9564Steam reviews · Sep 17, 2022 · 30 h played

    ------------!Spoiler Free!------------ I took a chance on this game after reading a couple of other reviews, and I've been playing it almost nonstop for 3 days. As a life long Pokemon fan, it's nice to find a good creature collector that isn't just replicating something else's formula. It definitely has the same "catch 'em all" appeal though, as I found myself backtracking to earlier areas again and again just because I'd seen that I've missed something. ---Pros--- -Gameplay The game follows…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5778Steam reviews · Oct 17, 2019 · 1 h played

    Like pokemon but monsters are different Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-s9w0MftSc&t=1s

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  • 💀 Applescare 🎃 - Plant Goblin Druid ENVtuber @bappleseed.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2025

    Appleseed's Indie Game Of The Day! Day 70) Disc Creatures by Picorinne Soft A monster tamer/creature collector game in the same vein as early Pokemon games (think Gold/Silver era) The monster designs are very fun and the battle system is easy to learn.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6067Steam reviews · Nov 1, 2021 · 21 h played

    There's a 200 monsters and cool story to play through. Incredible feat for 1 developer. The Red/Blue nostalgia feels amazing. I love all the surprise events and mini quests. The possibility to grant Fusion Recipes as the special price instead of boring regular items pumps me up, because collecting monsters ultimately is what makes these games addictive. After the fourth chapter the gameplay becomes grindy and unbearable. I stopped at the Ice Cave because you have hard-to-solve ice puzzle with…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5835Steam reviews · Dec 17, 2019 · 31 h played

    A labour of love by a lone Japanese developer. I feel a bit of kinship with SATTO. He made Disc Creatures on his own using RPG Maker VX Ace. Somehow, and I have talked to him about how he did this, managed to get the game to run extremely well even within the limitations of that engine. It’s a treat. Disc Creatures is alternative Pokemon. You turn-based battle creatures in the world and add them to your team after defeating them in battle. The primary difference is you have 3 creatures in your…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8346Steam reviews · Mar 10, 2025 · 3 h played

    I'm looking forward to Disc Creatures World which why I wanted to try out the Original Game. The Game itself looks really beautiful and it kinda fun to play, however I encountered an issue that quickly made the Game rather Frustrating than Fun. I'm still quite early in the game and maybe I'm not patient enough, but there's quite a grinding-issue. Your Party consists on only 3 Creatures with no way to swap them out except for a PC, which makes your backtrack to one every time you stuck at a…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6649Steam reviews · Dec 10, 2021 · 86 h played

    Cute creature collector with a feel similar to the original Gameboy Color Pokemon games from the 1990s. Battles are always 3 on 3 and creature "discs" are collected by a combination of chance after battle encounters and boosted rates if an item is used with a max of 5x per creature. I read some people say they used their starter the whole time but I personally found reason to change my own team up on multiple occasions. Fusion was an interesting mechanic, requiring two specific and uninstalled…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4393Steam reviews · Dec 4, 2019 · 15 h played

    I used to love Gameboy Colour era monster collecting games. Disc Creatures is everything I've been missing from the genre. It's like a mashup of Dragon Quest Monsters (party-based battle system) with Pokemon (particularly town, route, and cave designs), but with its own unique twists. PROS -Charming dialogue -A story that somehow manages to be both genre-savvy and heartwarming -200 monsters to collect -Quirky monster designs (Many of them are derpy and awkward in all the best ways...…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3299Steam reviews · Oct 17, 2019

    Cute retro little game ^^ Fun to play.

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  • GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.comBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    you might know them for Infinos Gaiden or Andro Dunos 2 (or even Disc Creatures—Picorinne's a 2-person team & the other guy made that one); these game are rawer than those, obviously Pixelheart's been porting/republishing their stuff since the Dreamcast homebrew days, albeit not always well

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  • Steam user Steam user …2733Steam reviews · Oct 14, 2024 · 1 h played

    I wish this WAS a Pokémon "clone" because then I'd actually like it

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  • Steam user Steam user …7466Steam reviews · Aug 6, 2024 · 68 h played

    Disc Creatures is more than "inspired by" Pokemon and Dragon Quest Monsters and the like. In some ways, DC is almost a response to other creature-wrangling games out there. But at the same time, it has its own unique charm and is worth it on its own merits. The game's story is told through five chapters, each focusing on a specific scenario out in the world. You'll be granted access to a new area, with the goal of reaching the end and fighting a boss creature there. Along the way, you can…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9581Steam reviews · Jan 31, 2022

    Does not work with controller at all, even after adjusting controller settings to mimic keyboard.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7550Steam reviews · Oct 19, 2019 · 2 h played

    I want to just say, the charm and level of care put into this game is off the charts! It made me feel nostalgic for the Pokemon RBY days, when I was only nine years old and could barely figure out what to do (and that's part of the experience, by the way!). My only problem is that I'm still early in the game so I'm not sure if they can, but I've not seen any proof of evolution in the game? That's always fun in Pokemon, when you finally earn enough EXP to evolve your Pokemon and see it get…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3656Steam reviews · Oct 18, 2019 · 3 h played

    I heard about this game a few weeks ago and started watching the dev streams. The sprite style and music are what really caught my attention. It's a pretty chill game with some pretty cool critters roaming about! Tutorial part of the game was not to long and was very intuitive to get me started. If you are into the retro era of games similar you might find this enjoyable as well! I rarely leave reviews on games but I just really wanted to give this a thumbs up because I like the game and hope…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2496Steam reviews · Mar 11, 2025 · 1 h played

    I'm sorry but no… I love creature catching games like Pokemon. I looked at the pictures and was in love, since it reminded me of the good ol' time but the hell is that? It’s more grinding than anything else! Not only that you barely have anything in the beginning - yes cool you get 3 creatures, but to catch new creatures you need to load them up means; multiple uses of the catch item. Also you only can buy 5 in the beginning (because your currency is not like 100 but 10.) if i have to catch…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5575Steam reviews · Jun 14, 2023 · 24 h played

    This is more of a "recommended if you're looking for this exact type of game" than a general recommendation. It does a great job at scratching the itch for game boy era Pokemon, jankiness included. That said, it's definitely not a plain pokemon knockoff and has plenty of its own gameplay and identity. Not everything is 100% perfect, but it is made by a solo indie developer, which is frankly pretty impressive and I haven't encountered any bugs or other outright gamebreaking issues. The battles…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3980Steam reviews · Feb 1, 2023 · 31 h played

    Very good little game for those that enjoy monster raising and the gameboy aesthetic, it's decently challenging and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's full of cute little details and animations that help the storytelling, and it has a lot of nice designs and mechanics, such as being able to change your moves anytime outside of battle. The only thing that may be a problem to some is that you're restricted to a 3 creature party, but I honestly think the difficulty is definitely balanced around…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4765Steam reviews · Jan 28, 2023 · 40 h played

    I really loved this game

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  • Steam user Steam user …1254Steam reviews · Apr 13, 2022 · 111 h played

    The graphics and marketing give the impression of an old-school Pokémon knockoff, but this is actually a proper JRPG -- and a solid one at that. Aside from the titular collectible Disc Creatures, the gameplay and plot manage to eschew all the tropes of the -mon-likes we've had dangled in front of us over the last decade. The first thing that may surprise you as you play this is the alarming absence of balls. Oi, you might be thinking, not so! They are DISC creatures, not BALL creatures!…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5755Steam reviews · Dec 26, 2020 · 1 h played

    Unfortunately due to the lack of configuration options and so on I've refunded this game. I spent almost an hour fighting with the configuration, only to find I most likely won't be able to play the game comfortably. There's very little documentation as to this games support and available configuration, even on various wikipedia entries and the like. Most of my time playing was fishing around in the config for the game to TRY to rebind the keys, futzing about until finally learning that the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2235Steam reviews · Oct 7, 2020

    Can't fullscreen the game (ALT+ENTER doesn't work for me, nor does the F1 menu option) and gamepad doesn't work for me either. I'm not the type who enjoys being forced to use 3rd party applications to resolve issues and their discussion section seems inactive (posted my dilemma in the discussion forum with no reply for a week now) so I just submitted my refund. Wanted to enjoy this though. Just posting this review for others to know before going in but I'm sure the content itself is great.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7479Steam reviews · Apr 10, 2020 · 87 h played

    A love letter to the critter capturer genre that many of us grew up playing, that still introduces unique elements so its not just a nostalgia haze. My only gripe with this game is that as a veteran player of games, and particularly this type, I was hoping to find a less.... Hand-holdy experience. It is still fun, and the game softens its grip on you eventually, but it could've left you to the wolves out of the gate and I could've fully immersed myself in learning all the games mechanics for…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6022Steam reviews · Jan 14, 2020 · 7 h played

    It has a lot of nostalgic sendups to Pokemon and other similar games, but Disc Creatures is definitely doing its own thing! I'm only on chapter 2, but I'm having a good time so far. I especially like that, there's a place where you can buy meals that bring your low-leveled monsters up to speed once you've hit certain milestones (I'm not sure yet exactly what those milestones are, but being able to skip grinding up to level 5 is very convenient at the point I'm at.)

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  • Steam user Steam user …7891Steam reviews · Dec 26, 2019 · 17 h played

    Looking at this game, you know exactly what you're getting into; it's a clone of Pokemon, and more specifically takes the aesthetic from the GameBoy era of those games. With that description you already know whether you want this game or not. I always wondered why more games like this didn't exist, given how easy it seems to make. As someone who grew up with Pokemon Silver, this game tickles every nostalgia nerve in my brain, in the best of ways. I find myself giddy to come across new…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6267Steam reviews · Dec 24, 2019 · 7 h played

    A very fun game with elements of Pokemon and Digimon plus many unique elements of its very own. While I'm only about 7.5 hours into my first play through, I can see that this game has the potential to be replayed several times, especially with some of the elements of randomness built into the game. Overall, I am very satisfied, and really the only thing that I could wish for is for someone to make an adaptation of this game for mobile platforms like Android or iPhone.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7052Steam reviews · Oct 20, 2019 · 10 h played

    If you like monster catching/collecting games, I can honestly say as a huge fan of that genre that this game definitely scratches that itch! Here's some things of note: ~ No evolution mechanic, but there IS a way to fuse discs together to make special monsters, so keep an eye out for fusion recipes and hold on to a few extra monster discs of each species just in case as you go through the game. ~ Multiple save files! ~ You can have three creatures in your team at a time, so choose wisely…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6224Steam reviews · Oct 18, 2019 · 1 h played

    So far so good. Barely wanna experiment with my party lineups because I like my 3 starters so much! I got my eye on Tomatee for future party member material though...

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  • Steam user Steam user …7491Steam reviews · Jan 16, 2026 · 149 h played

    Allow me to preface this: I DON'T hate Disc Creatures, I love it for what it is and what it offered but I can't necessarily say that I like some of the aspects the game itself has. The 3v3 team aspect of the battling was done really well but unfortunately, things drag to a crawl once you realize that all the creatures get defaulted to LVL 1 upon obtaining them. In-universe, I understand why it's like that but it's just not my jam, especially when the lvl-boosting options themselves aren't that…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2891Steam reviews · Jun 27, 2025 · 2 h played

    It is more Telefang/ Digimon than Pokemon which i think is what is throwing a lot of people off. Love the art style though. I won it in a giveaway get it on sale for 5$ and it will be fun for an evening

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  • Steam user Steam user …0881Steam reviews · Oct 6, 2024

    ★★★★☆ Gotta Catch Nostalgia!It's like finding an old Pokémon cartridge in your attic, but with a fresh twist. While it can’t quite match the *“Gotta catch ‘em all!”* classics in terms of music and nostalgia, it’s way more innovative where it counts. You’ll be surprised by the unique spins on the genre. If you’re looking for that old-school vibe with a new kick, this game is a real *super effective* hit. Just don’t expect the iconic tunes to follow you through Victory Road.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1936Steam reviews · Apr 21, 2022 · 29 h played

    For the first 20 years of my life, I considered Pokemon to be my favorite videogame franchise. But for the last ten years, I've kinda started hating the genre as a whole, and thinking that maybe I was just dumb as hell as a kid as each Pokemon title I buy continues to disappoint. Even other indie game Monster Catching titles, like Coromon or Monster Sanctuary, didn't do it for me. But Disc Creatures does. It's not a perfect or even particularly noteworthy game, but each time I entered a new…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3487Steam reviews · Nov 27, 2021 · 17 h played

    I don't think I've ever been so pleasantly surprised by a game before. On the surface, it seems like it may be a simple clone trying to cash in on nostalgia, but it subverts that expectation in the best ways possible. Disc Creatures is a beautiful re-imagining of an entire world, and brings innovation and many clever ideas to the genre while still feeling a little familiar. I highly recommend it for anyone who grew up on the games it's clearly inspired by, or even someone who wants to play a…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3570Steam reviews · Nov 21, 2021 · 1 h played

    It's alright. It's not the Gen 1 Pokemon game it wants to sell itself as, but it's alright. Stating the obvious first, it's trying to scratch a bunch of old original pokemon game nostalgia, nostalgia that modern pokemon games admittedly have a hard time getting at in the same way, so there is a niche there, and isn't doing a bad job at that aesthetically, and with the tunes, but these similarities, to me, as someone who grew up learning what video games were with a cartridge of Pokemon red,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3188Steam reviews · Jul 18, 2021

    trying to be an off brand version of the first pokemon game doesnt make sense b/c the first pokemon game is still pretty fun but if youre gonna do it you cant also be slower paced imo

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