Monowave

Monowave is a puzzle adventure about Mono, a newborn Guardian spirit tasked with protecting the four Emotions: Anger, Anxiety, Happiness and Sorrow. The Emotions were guided by the Prism Tree at the heart of the world until the Emotion Shards inside it vanished, scattering them across the land. As the tree withers and chaos spreads, you reunite the Emotions and restore harmony.

Powers of the Emotions

Mono can use powers tied to each Emotion to traverse the world and solve puzzles:

• Happiness: jump to reach new heights.
• Sorrow: melt down to pass through narrow gaps.
• Anger: wall-jump to make a path forward.
• Anxiety: evade threats and navigate difficult terrain with heightened senses.

You can also share emotions with spirits to change their behavior and solve puzzles. Mono’s powers affect the world’s eccentric inhabitants, whose responses can make them friends or foes depending on your approach. The story explores the complicated ways emotions appear in people’s lives.

Four realms

Explore four realms, each warped by its ruling Emotion. Their environments include foggy jungles and blazing caverns, and each has an Emotion-based ecosystem to bring back into balance.

Play alone or together

You can explore solo or play local two-player co-op with a friend. Steam Remote Play Together also supports playing with a friend online; two-player mode requires at least one controller.

Art and music

The game uses a scratch-art-inspired visual style to present its fairytale world. Its soundtrack is original to the game.