Mini Monsters Review
Mon Jul 01 2024 TyluurOnYTIf you love collecting cards or Pokémon cards for example this is the game for you. I will say from a non ad buyer the ads are little crazy and can get annoying but idk for 3.99 you can buy no ads which is nice and isn’t to much. Atm there’s 2 sets with 2 new sets coming next update and 2 more sets coming soon so it’s nice to know more sets are coming and hope to see it keep getting updates. Also for more info game does little mini games where you gotta stack cards and even duels with the cards you have collected. If any dev sees this amazing at work and at home game a perfect mobile game I would say for card collectors.
Good game, bad ethics
Fri Jun 14 2024 bagel behind the fridgeThe game is very fun, I enjoy it quite a bit. The minigames get a little repetitive, but opening card packs and participating in tournaments is very fun. Its satisfying to fill out pages of the collection book, and the tournament system is fun and unique. I have one huge problem with it though.
This game is chalked full of AI generated “artwork.” Its very obvious that a lot of these monster designs came from typing “new legendary pokémon” or something similar into the prompt box for an AI. I wouldn’t be surprised if every single image in this game is AI Generated. This game is fun! You’ve made a good experience, and clearly there’s going to be money in that. So, I implore the developers, please.
Use some of the money you’ve made on this game, or your other games, to just pay some artists. It would make the game so much more enjoyable. I know this is a content farm type of game studio, and nothing will likely be done, but if someone working there is actually reading the reviews, consider it.
Fun game but….
Sun Jun 09 2024 Udesii Baar'urOnce you run through both sets of cards in the store and you complete the card battles not much else to do but mini games. Once you get to round 274 is a mojan tile game but how it’s set up you can’t solve it. Don’t think the developers planned that far out for the game. Looking forward to see what they do with the game. Until then I’ll just leave the game as unplayed until the next update.
Update: so after rebooting the app a few times it fixed the level issue. I’ve all the common to legendary for set two but still missing cards for set one. I wish there was an option to swap the set packs between the others so you can try and complete the other set. Per the game sets 3&4 are in the next update along with what looks like a calendar icon. Not much to do until the next update. Despite that this is still a pretty good game for one that hasn’t been out that long.
Good and bad
Tue Jul 09 2024 KayonesoftIt’s a fun little CCG collection game that scratches an itch. The art is fine for what it is. The minigames are an interesting break but are transparently a way to slow down your progress to pad out how little game there actually is here. The coin reward system is arbitrary since it always awards exactly the amount you need to buy the next pack (with the exception of the final pack in the tier which awards double, and the double reward for watching an ad).
I think the funnest part of the game is the tournaments, however they only happen once a tier and you can’t repeat them at all.
The ads are a bit too egregious, especially for how little you actually play this game, often appearing after every pack you open, but sometimes after 2-3 packs. There is a way to purchase an ad removal, but given how little actual gameplay is here, I don’t think it’s worth it.
Pretty good in my opinion (personal opinion)
Sat May 11 2024 Dakari23mccThis game is perfect for someone who is a fan of any TCG it’s got that addictive feeling of wanting to open a shiny pack or seeing a really cool creature that has a nice design. It has a mode to then use those collected cards to fight in battles that satisfy to a certain extent. There is kinda a lull while you endlessly pull from a row of cards to open them and play the next game to get money. It would be nice to be able to choose which pack your opening even if just for the sensation of randomly picking something good but still it’s a new pack I’m eager to open it regardless. Also it would be cool to change up the display that the tropthies and figures is on, but other than that I love the game and hope it develops into something more!
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Sun Jul 07 2024 panda cassieIt’s like Pokémon cards but each time you open a pack you get more coins to spend on more and there’s so many various cards you could collect with so many different abilities and powers helps you a lot and sometimes you do battles with like robots and not real players and you get like gems and coins that you could spend on the packs and you also get more cards and you get to see different cards and different abilities and how each car does like all these different powers and all different abilities so it’s really fun. I would definitely recommend
Fun, but perhaps a little flawed
Sat Jun 15 2024 tortilibillyThere's plenty of things to do in the game and the design and animations are great, but one thing that sticks out to me is that some of the art is very obviously AI generated. Not because of any errors mind you -- whoever wrote the prompt did so aptly and ended up generating some great results! -- but you can see slight differences in art styles between cards. Some like Nimbunny are more cartoony with some film grain, others like Mysthoot are much more 3D, and some like Brawlox are more of a modern anime look... The cards look great, but I would like to know what engine was used to generate these images.
Besides that, I don't have any concerns/complaints. I'd like to be able to play game this knowing that these images were ethically generated and not building off of artists' work without their knowledge and/or consent.
The designs of the characters are great! They're cute and unique, and the UI is clean and intuitive. I really like all the animations for opening cards, doing minigames with them after opening a pack, sliding them into the book, it all feels very nice :)
Definitely a nice game, but I do have my reservations about it, so I'm giving 3 stars for now
Incredibly fun until it hits a wall
Mon May 13 2024 Kozzy7778I loved this game so much at the start. Opening packs and sliding new cards into the binder is so fun and satisfying. But, as others have pointed out, once you move past Set 1 there is no way to go back and complete it outside of random cards showing up in the store. It loses momentum entirely once you complete most of Set 2. I was watching like every ad offered to me, and the developer could keep raking in the ad revenue if they allowed some way to complete sets. But for a game that’s entirely about collecting, making it extremely difficult to do so out of nowhere is a huge letdown and caused me to bail on the game entirely.
Huge bummer bc I would highly recommend it otherwise, but you will absolutely be disappointed once you get to a certain point so I can’t even recommend starting it.
I really like it, but…
Thu Jul 18 2024 ✨Noah Felix✨Okay, so: this is a great game. Sure, it’s got a lot of references to copyrighted material,but it’s also still its own thing. It’s really satisfying for my ADHD, filling out the book and whatnot, and the mini games (although repetitive) have a sense of satisfaction in the repetition. There is one thing I hate, though: the arrows in ‘find the fake.’ Please, the minigame itself is already relatively easy. The arrows take the fun out of it. I implore you, developers, please change this. It’s sapping the satisfaction of the feeling ‘oh, I did this! I did this all on my own!’ from the minigame. Overall, good work, though it seems a tad AI generated. Keep it up, just PLEASE, fix the arrows. I hate the arrows.
Could use a bit of fixes, otherwise perfect
Tue Jun 25 2024 Eth43cI love this game! It’s exactly what I was looking for, and the mini games were a nice unexpected touch (I don’t mind them being repetitive). Despite the fact that most of not all the card art is ai generated, I still like the designs and don’t mind it.
I only have a few minor problems, some I’ve seen in other reviews, some I haven’t:
1. Problem: I personally felt there were too little tournaments. Solution: Add more or make it so you can replay them.
2. Problem: Resetting back to common after buying all the legendary packs. Solution: make it so you can choose the rarity after opening all boxes of a set.
3. Problem: Too many duplicates. Solution: Make it so that gold packs give guaranteed new cards (at least a guaranteed gold card, getting repeat golds is the most frustrating).
4. Problem: Too few sets. Solution: There’s more on the way so that’s great!
All in all, this is a wonderful game, but I would have to rate it 4 stars because of how tedious it can be.
