I love the monster capture/training genre (cough cough Pokemon games), but it's quite difficult to find such games on PC and even more so on Steam, please mention/link more games with this type of setup (hell in general it just needs monster capturing or battling in order to qualify really).

Created a SteamGroup to be able to manage this a bit better there as well :) Monster Taming Games Group
The group also has a curator if you want to easily see the tagged games (we've tagged them based on the type of monster taming elements they have) : Monster Taming Games Curator

I would also like to implement a steam tag for this type of game on steam, if enough people tag the games with the tag and we get the devs involved (I have spoken to a few that are very keen on doing this) then we can maybe make this a reality and through doing this make finding games of this sub-genre extremely easy :).

The main idea I got from communicating with the devs is to call the tag "Monster Taming" as this will encompass all the games that have anything to do with capturing, nurturing, raising, evolving, and/or fighting with monsters, it's vague enough to encompass a lot of game thus making it more viable to be an actual tag. If anyone has a better idea please feel free to comment on my first comment in order to add it to a vote in the future, until then let's find some more games in this genre on Steam :).

So the main consensus was reached, let's all go ahead and tag the games with "Monster Taming" !!!

The following games I am aware of that share this "mechanic":

9th Dawn III
A Legend In Zormore
Abomi Nation
Adore
Aeternum Quest
Aethermancer
After The End: The Harvest
Alchemic Cutie
Alekon
Amber Island
Anima Island
Anitons
Anode Heart
Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim 2
Athenian Rhapsody
Atrio: The Dark Wild
Baby Dragon Rancher
Bastard Bonds
Beastie Bay DX
Beasties
Beastmancer
Bloomtown: A Different Story
Bugaboo Pocket
Bugsnax
Calculator and monsters
Capture Creatures
Card X Monster
CARDMON
Cartridge Monsters
Cassette Beasts
Chainmonsters
Chimera Island
Chronomon
Collectamon
Cornucopia
Coromon
Costume Kingdom
Creature Keeper
Creatures Inc
Deity Quest
Desktop Dinosaurs
Dicefolk
Digimon Masters Online
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Complete Edition
Digimon Survive
Digimon World Next Order
Dinogotchi
Disc Creatures
Doodle Dice Monsters
Dr Derks Mutant Battleground
Dragon Creek
DRAGON QUEST TREASURES
Dragon Spirits
Dragon Spirits : Prologue
Dragon Spirits 2
Dream Catcher
Duel Revolution
Entodrive
Eternal Exodus
Evolings
EvoMon
Expert on Domestication
Extravaganza Rising
Fae & Fauna
Fae Tactics
Familiars.io
Fantasy World Souls
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - Missions and Monsters DLC
Fera Knight
Final Stardust
Fusion Relics
Geneforge 1
Geneforge 1 Mutagen
Geneforge 2
Geneforge 2 - Infestation
Geneforge 3
Geneforge 4
Geneforge 5
Genetic Fluff
Genome Genetic Monsters
Genso Chronicles
Ghostlords
GladiEATers
Glitched
GlyphBound Kotodama
Gorit
Grimmlins Tale
Grow Your Pets
Growbots: Battle Academy
Haypi Monster 3
HoloFist
Idle Monster Frontier
INUMEDA
Kaardik
Kādomon: Hyper Auto Battlers
Kādomon: Hyper Auto Battlers Prologue
Kindred Fates
Kindred Fates Combat Arena Alpha
Kins Chronicle
Kittens in Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy San Francisco: Battle School for Only the Most Awesome Monsters
Kobold Garden
Kodama Battles
Kubberz
Lamina Island
Let Them Fight
Little Noah: Scion of Paradise
Ludoria
LumenTale: Memories of Trey
Luster Beasts
Magia Story
Malice Greed
Mebula
Memoryland Prelude
Mewgenics
Minimon
Miolhr
Mirrored Soul
Monster Battle Quest
Monster Capture King
Monster Crown
Monster Evo
Monster Harvest
Monster Hunter Stories 2 Wings of Ruin
Monster Path
Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX
Monster Sanctuary
Monster Tamer
Monster Tribe
Monster Viator
Monsters Idle RPG
Monsters of Seabrook
Monsters of the North
MonsterTamer
MonTamer
Moonsters
Moonstone Island
Murgles
My Fantastic Ranch
My Personal Hilopet
My Singing Monsters
My Universe My Baby Dragon
Myth Caller The Nightmare Shaman
Mython Island
Nanomon Virtual Pet
Necromancer's Gift
NecroStory
New Town Needs Tamer
Nexomon
Nexomon 3
Nexomon Extinction
Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch Remastered
Nights of Azure
Norpon
Notemon
Nova Odessa The Demon Trainer
Nuumonsters
Oni Hunters
ONINAKI
Ooblets
Ova Magica
Oztrich An Adventure
Paleo Pines
Palladise Island
Palworld
Paracreat
Patch Quest
Pedigree Tactics
Persona 5 Royal
Phantom Beasts Redemption
Pixacrea
PIXELS Digital Creatures
Portal Fantasy
Procemon: You Must Catch Them
PROJECT SURVIVAL #Working title
Pry Into The Void
Rainbow Billy The Curse of the Leviathan
Re Summon
ReLegend
Renditions of the Awakening
Safari Zone
School of Dragons
Scripted Souls
Secret Summoner
Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne HD Remaster
Siralim
Siralim 2
Siralim 3
Siralim Ultimate
Skyclimbers
Skyseeker
Slime Rancher
Slime Rancher 2
Soul Hackers 2
Soul of Giga
Soul Reaper
Spawn Kings
Spherix
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions
Spirit Mancer
SpiriTales
Summoners Tale
Super Auto Pets
Synth Beasts
TemTem
Temtem: Showdown
Terra Maega
The Capture Worlds
The Corpsmen
The Dragoness Command of the Flame
The Last Monsters
The Monster Breeder
The Thaumaturge
The Vision Of The Ant
Theogony Crystal Water Blue
Time to Morp
Time To Morp: First Contact
Timmy's adventures : Verbmon
Tinker Spell
Toby's Island
Tomomon
Tournament of Tamers
Train'em
Unleashed
Untamed Isles
Via Mortis
Vilmonic
Virtual Beepic
Void Monsters Spring City Tales
Volseons
Volzerk : Monsters and Lands Unknown
Voxelotl Garden
VR Animal Kids Rumble
Weirdlands
Witchery Academy
World of Final Fantasy
Xander the Monster Morpher Universe Breaker
Yōdanji
Zanzarah
そこへ向かう(GO THERE)
百煉登神 Immortal Tales of Rebirth

Honorable Mentions (for games that have monster capture or training mechanics but it isn't what the game is built around)
ARK: Survival Ascended
ARK Survival Evolved
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Assassin's Creed Origins
BALAN WONDERWORLD
Balrum
Beasts of Maravilla Island
Berry People
Chimeraland
Chrysalis
Citadel: Forged with Fire
Conan Exiles
Craftopia
Crashland
De'Vine: Heavenly Acres
Delares
Dino System
Don't Starve
Don't Starve Together
Dungeon Village 2
Fallout 4 - Wasteland Workshop DLC
Fallout76
Far Away From Home
Far Cry Primal
Final Fantasy 10-2
Final Fantasy 13-2
Force of Nature
HEARTBEAT
Heroes of Might & Magic III HD Edition
Heroes of Might & Magic V
Heroes of Might & Magic VI
Heroes of Might & Magic VII
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
Kainga
KoboldKroniken
Legend of Mana
Loddlenaut
Lunaela
MiddleEarth Shadow of Mordor
MiddleEarth Shadow of War
Monark
Monster Museum
No Man's Sky
Octopath Traveler
OCTOPATH TRAVELER II
Penko Park
Persona 4 Golden
PitPeople
PixArk
Planet Centauri
Planet Explorers
Ragnarok Online
Rappelz
Research Story
Riftbound
RimWorld
Rune Factory 3 Special
Rune Factory 4 Special
Rune Factory 5
Serin Fate
Sonic Adventures 1
Sonic Adventures 2
Soul Locus
Starbound
Sun Harvest
Tangledeep
The Binding of Isaac
The Serpent Rogue
Valheim
Wayward
Yonder the Cloud Catcher Chronicles

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Would you want a steam tag for Pokemonlike games to be implemented on Steam?

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Yes - Monster Taming
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That looks so cute, added it to the list.
Thank you :)

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Pretty interesting thread, bookmarked and thanks for your effort.

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Awesome, thank you :)

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Monster hunter world. you can capture the big ass monster, but they will just appear in a cage in city with someone examining them.
But that aside, there is also, little creature around all maps (swimming / walking / flyng) that you can fish or capture, and share your chamber with.
But thats not a lot of interaction with them. You don't raise them nor fight with them, they are just there.

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Yeah, I've played it and people have suggested it but it doesn't really fall into the category.
Because then a person can include a hunting game as well that allows a person to sedate the animal instead of killing it, since that is what a person does to capture a monster in MonsterHunterWorld.
And the pets are just home accessories, if we were to include that then a game where you catch fish and display them in a tank would also need to be included in this.

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Why have I not seen the sequel to Nexomon , damnit !
Thank you so much :)
Added it to the list

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Oooooh Amber Island looks promising.
Thank you, added it to the list.
Conan Exiles was already on the list :P.

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Riders of Icarus
taming dragons and pets.
The game was good, but over time it got worse

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Ooooh this looks cool, thanx

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Middle Earth series?

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You just temporarily make them fight for you or you ride them.
You don't get to say run away or fast travel then call the thing you "tamed" as such it doesn't get classified as "taming" , though I might put them in the Honorable Mentions... hmmmm

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Added the following to the honorable mentions list
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
Shadow of Mordor
Shadow of War

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Added the following to the main list:
9th Dawn III
Mython Island
Fae Tactics
SkySeeker

Added the following to the honorable mentions list:
Assassin's Creed Origins
Far Cry Primal

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Thanks for this thread, I also love this style of games. About the tag, I have a doubt. I instantly remembered the medabot game (gameboy), wich is pratically identical to those types, but instead of monsters you interact with robots. Would the tag fit for those?

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Hm there are only 2 Medabots games I am aware of for the gameboy and neither of those would fit the tags purpose.
The one medabots game was a 2d arena fighting game where you would build up your medabot and fight against others to win their parts.
The other one was more a RPG where you would have 3 medabots that you can customize and use in battle at a time, that game was bloody amazing.

Since you collect parts and upgrade your medabots there isn't really any Monster Taming going on there.

Robopon which is also a gameboy game would however fit into this tag, even though you just use robots, because you need to build new ones, evolve them and battle with them, they aren't monsters but the theme-ing is the same...

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Didn't know about the arena fighting game, but the other was amazing, that's why it came to my mind, guess it was the build of a friendship and evolving part, wich I actually enjoy in these games. Thanks for this thread, added some games to my WL 👍😃

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Glad to hear you like it :)

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Dang, those sound awesome. I only have a few faint memories of Medabots and a Medabots puzzle, but I'm pretty sure I liked it, lol.

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Monster Hunter World probably has enough similar elements to go in the honorable mentions category.

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Hi TreadLife, the only "Monster Taming" elements that Monster Hunter World has is that you can capture little critters for display purposes, but with that logic a game where you can catch and mount fish to your wall would also apply then.

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Siralim ULTIMATE. Not released yet but you get an Alpha build if you support the kickstarter.

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Already on the list 😜
Or were you just mentioning the Alpha build fact?

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Just the Alpha thing.

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That game seems fun but damn it's bright!

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This looks adorable and awesome at the same time :)
Thank you veebles, you've been finding a lot of Monster Taming games recently :) really appreciate you updating the discussion

Added it to the list :)

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Skyseeker giveaway! https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/BzIfe/skyseeker
The devs contacted me and gave me 10 keys to give away in order to help promote their game :)
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Saw this recently, looks amazing!
It does quite a few things better than the newest Pokemon games in my opinion, looks damn good.

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Added Kindred Fates to the list

I think this is a separate page for their Alpha version but I guess the future will tell us if this will become their official Steam Page or not

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