Monsters

Creatures theme

Includes any kind of creatures with terrifying or otherwise horribly deformed/repulsive (monstrous) appearance, regardless if their personality matches this. Commonly assumed to be mindless savages.

3081

games

124

platforms

Dark Souls: Remastered

WIN 2018-05-25

Overlord: Raising Hell

PS3 2008-06

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

WIN 2000-12-06

Dungeon Souls

WIN 2016-12-02

Shadow Warrior

WIN 2013-09-26

Alganon

WIN 2009-10-31

Nightmare Creatures II

PS1 2000-05-24

Gauntlet III: The Final Quest

OCS 1991

Space Gun

SMS 1992

EverQuest II

WIN 2004-11-08

Hexen: Beyond Heretic

AGA 1999

Cyberpunks

OCS 1993

Children:
* Monster protagonist
* Giant monsters
* Tentacle monsters

Conditional children:
* Insectoids
* Parasites
* Aliens

This is for creatures that physically resemble something that could be labeled as monster, not people whose personality is monstrous.

Gamers and game makers tend to label anything that opposes the player as monsters but this tag is NOT for such broad definition of it.

Child groups

Giant monsters, Monster protagonist, Abominations, Monster girls

Games by year

The first Monsters video game was released in 1974.

Sega, Electronic Arts and Konami published most of these games.

Related site

Wikipedia article

Platforms

Windows		614
Linux		581
MS-DOS		155
NES		127
Mac OS X		110
Apple II E		81
C64		76
X360		73
PS3		72
Amiga		56
Mac OS Classic		45
PS2		42
Atari ST		41
NEC PC9801		40
NEC PC8801		38
ZX Spectrum		38
MSX2		36
Famicom Disk System		34
PS4		33
Amstrad CPC		28
PS		26
Sharp X1		26
MICRO 7 - FM7		25
Mega Drive		24
PSP		23
Tandy Coco		22
MSX		22
SNES		21
Arcade		21
Android		21

Most common companies

Sega	56
Electronic Arts	54
Konami	52
SSI	43
Nintendo	40
Ascii	37
Capcom	31
Nihon Falcom	28
Starcraft	28
Atari	26
Activision	24
Namco	21
Pony Canyon	20
Paradox Interactive	20
Interplay	20