The Last Monsters

The Last Monsters is a monster-battling survival game. You build a team, travel through dangerous, procedurally generated wilderness, and fight using moves that execute in real time. You also camp and find and prepare food for your monsters as you journey from zone to zone.

Real-time combat

You prepare and launch monster moves, spending stamina to change their speed, power and timing. Some moves benefit more from rapid follow-up attacks, while others work better as slow, powerful strikes. Combat has no accuracy or critical-strike RNG mechanics. Weather affects monsters according to their element type, so you choose monsters and actions to suit the conditions.

Wilderness survival

At each stage of your journey, choose between one of three routes, each with gameplay-adjusting modifiers. Larger teams may be safer in combat but need more food to maintain. In Standard survival mode, you and your monsters grow hungry in real time. In Alternate survival mode, hunger is not affected by the in-game clock and is tied exclusively to healing your monsters at camp.

Build your team

You make significant choices about your monsters’ stats and movesets, and can give them a secondary element type to address weaknesses or broaden your options in battle. These choices let you shape your team around your preferred combat and survival strategies, from mitigating damage in slow, tactical fights to aggressive, riskier approaches.

Keeping your monsters happy earns their friendship and loyalty, which brings benefits in combat and survival. Stronger bonds let them boost their moves more efficiently and endure more KOs before dying. Monsters with higher bonds also have more Life Points; a favorite monster’s Life Points can be restored by letting it rest in storage.

Death and difficulty

Monsters that die are gone forever, though monster death can be disabled in the difficulty settings. You can also sacrifice monsters you care less about in combat to make a hasty escape. Difficulty options for survival, combat and monster death can be adjusted independently, including Nuzlocke-inspired settings where even one KO means permanent death.

End Of Days mode

End Of Days is a repeatable survival mode in which the towns you are trying to save move closer to destruction with each passing day, while the world’s monsters grow stronger. Use your strongest monsters and deepest bonds to face this challenge.