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.

2844

games

116

platforms

Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds

IIE 1982

Hydlide II: Shine of Darkness

8801 1985-10

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

WIN 2010-09-21

Tiger Road

PCE 1990-02-23

Solomon's Key

C64 1987

Dust: An Elysian Tail

WIN 2013-05-25

Windchaser

WIN 2008-11-26

Drakkhen

X68K 1991-09-06

Loren the Amazon Princess: The Castle of

WIN 2012

Murk

WIN 1998

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

PSP 2010-02

Archon Ultra

DOS 1994

The first video game about Monsters was released in 1974.

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

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

compare with these groups

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Wikipedia article

Platforms

Windows		594
Linux		567
MS-DOS		149
NES		128
Mac OS X		107
X360		73
PS3		72
C64		59
Amiga		52
Apple II E		45
Mac OS Classic		44
PS2		42
Atari ST		38
Famicom Disk System		34
NEC PC9801		34
NEC PC8801		31
MSX2		31
PS4		30
ZX Spectrum		29
Amstrad CPC		27
PS		26
Mega Drive		24
PSP		23
Sharp X1		23
SNES		21
MICRO 7 - FM7		20
PCE		20
Arcade		19
BeOS		18
Android		18

Monsters

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