Monster Crown is a 2021 role-playing video game developed by Studio Aurum and published by Soedesco.
Heavily inspired by the Pokémon series, it features similar gameplay mechanics while adopting a darker fictional universe and storyline.
[8] Monster Crown entered an early access availability period on PC on July 31, 2020,[9] being distributed on Steam during that time.
[3] The 1.0 version of Monster Crown was released on October 12, 2021, for Microsoft Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Nintendo Switch.
[1][21][12] Mitch Vogel of Nintendo Life commented on the aesthetics and audio of the game, noting that they drew inspiration from the Game Boy Color well, while also finding the monster designs generally "uninspired", with a few exceptions.