My Friends the Monster Trainers

About This Game

👾 Gotta deduce 'em all!

Stuck at home while your friends go catch monsters and battle trainers, can you still complete your Monster Tracker? Follow the story and search for clues in your friends' letters in this short narrative deduction game.

How to play

Read letters from your friends

and follow their monster-collecting adventures.

Use your powers of

observation and deduction

to identify the appearance, alignment, moves, and habitat of the monsters.

Click on the dropdowns in the

Monster Tracker

to fill in the details, then click

Validate

.

Each time you

identify three monsters

, you'll get more letters that you can open to see what happens next in the story. Click the mailbox!

Optionally, take notes on each monster's page, the Notes page, and

fill

in the Alignment page

to track strengths and weaknesses.

Progress is saved to your browser local storage.

Credits

Originally created in 72 hours for

Ludum Dare 58

. This is a post-jam version with additional updates. The theme was "Collector".

Celia

did the design, writing, and code.

Rose

did the art.

Hunter helped with the monster names.

Music:

"Out And About" by FesliyanStudios

Sounds:

SubspaceAudio

,

Rhodesmas

,

HarpyHarpHarp

,

SkyernAklea

,

Nomracer

⚠️ Some comments have spoilers, so be cautious reading them before playing!

After playing, if you want to talk spoilers, try

the html details technique

.