Dear Monster Keepers,
It's time for another update on Monster Sanctuary & our team at moi rai games! We have a lot of big news since our last update.
Steam Trading Cards
We released Steam Trading Cards for Monster Sanctuary today! Each one of them features completely new artwork made by Alexa & Isabel from Path of Pixels, who also made the Monster artworks for the Monster Journals.
This means you get the following new goodies:
- 8 Trading Cards. You earn Steam Trading Cards by playing Monster Sanctuary on Steam! Or by trading for them.
- 7 Backgrounds (2 Uncommon, 1 Rare). You can get these by collecting badges, which you get from collecting the Trading Cards. Or by trading for them.
- 6 Emojis (2 Uncommon, 1 Rare). You also get these by collecting badges, which you get from collecting the Trading Cards. Or by trading for them.
For more information how all of this work, you may consult the Steam Trading Cards FAQ.
Forgotten World Update
The next important topic is the development of the upcoming free DLC for Monster Sanctuary: Forgotten World! We have been hard at work at this update for the last months. In fact, throughout production, it seemed like we kept adding more and more to the update:
- A new area, the Forgotten World, bigger than any other area in the game.
- 10 new Monsters. 9 of them can be found in the Forgotten World, while one of them serves as a new optional Champion Monster in one of the earlier areas of the game.
- 3 new game modes. All of them can be combined with each other and with New Game+. The existing difficulty modes (Casual, Normal, Master) will also work with these new game modes.
- Level cap raised to 42 from 40.
- Many new skills. All the new Monsters come with new skills of course, but we also added a lot of new skills to older Monsters. In fact, we expanded every single Monster's skill tree with new skill nodes - there's even some skill trees that were reworked quite a bit. We thank our beta testers for making many suggestions how old and beloved Monsters' skill trees could be improved!
- Remade sprites & animations for 17 older Monsters. These were completely remade so that they would better match the art style of the later Monsters.
- And more.
We have been releasing snapshots of the new content on our social media platforms. If you want a closer look, join us on Twitter or Instagram. We also recently did a developer stream with Gym Leader Ed. If you're interested in exploring the new area and the new game modes, give it a watch.
We are currently aiming for a release in June for all platforms.
Humble Choice
Another exciting update: Humble Bundle invited us to join April 2022's Humble Choice lineup, along with the other games you can see above! Humble Choice is Humble Bundle's own game subscription model, where you get to keep the games forever. This means if you join Humble Choice this month, you get Monster Sanctuary and keep it forever too - which means you'll also get the free Forgotten World DLC soon as well. In addition to all those games, 5% of your money is also going to a good cause. Perhaps it's something worth recommending to friends who don't have Monster Sanctuary yet.
Our team is growing
We'd also like to mention that we have been expanding our team quite a bit. Monster Sanctuary started out as a free-time project by Denis Sinner. After the successful Kickstarter campaign, I (Anton Sinner) officially joined the company as well. Since then, we have grown by two pixel artists, one additional programmer, one marketing expert, one community manager, one QA tester, and one part-time book-keeper. On top of that, another pixel artist and a technical artist will join us soon as well - which means we'll soon be a company of 11 people. Stay tuned!