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.

2792

games

114

platforms

Dr. Chaos: Jigoku no Tobira

FDSY 1987-06-19

Vixen

SPC 1988

Castle of Deceit

NES 1990

Aquaria

LIN 2010-05-04

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast

WIN 1999-05-05

Rampage

NES 1988-12

Perimeter

WIN 2004-05-21

Nightmare Creatures II

PS1 2000-05-24

C64 1987

DOS 1997

IIE 1981

LIN 2008-09-14

The first video game about Monsters was released in 1974.

Electronic Arts, Konami and Sega 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

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Wikipedia article

Platforms

Windows		587
Linux		567
MS-DOS		144
NES		127
Mac OS X		106
X360		73
PS3		72
C64		56
Amiga		49
Apple II E		45
Mac OS Classic		44
PS2		42
Atari ST		37
Famicom Disk System		34
NEC PC8801		29
NEC PC9801		29
MSX2		29
PS4		27
ZX Spectrum		27
PS		26
Amstrad CPC		25
PSP		23
Mega Drive		22
Sharp X1		22
SNES		21
MICRO 7 - FM7		20
PCE		19
Android		18
BSD		18
Arcade		18

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Monsters

Creatures theme

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