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?

View Results
Yes - Monster Taming
Maybe - Something other than Monster Taming
Meh - No tag :(

Hey hey everyone, It's been a while since I've updated the list.
So here we go:

Newly added to the list

Main list:
My Personal Hilopet
Train'em
Fusion Relics
Spawn Kings
Virtual Beepic
Monster Evo
Desktop Dinosaurs
Card X Monster
Necromancer's Gift

Honorable Mentions
Yonder the Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Sun Harvest
Research Story
Riftbound
The Serpent Rogue
Kainga

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Haha seems I was just a tad bit too fast for you this time

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Oh yeah, that is a monster taming game since your taking care of the creature as well (if I remember correctly)
Will add it to the list :)

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Wish they'd port the Dragon Quest Monster series onto steam, Epic, or so. Some of the best monter catching games around.

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That's some wishful thinking, would be awesome to play that on PC though.

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I know it is, but I'm hoping Square Enix takes notice of how viable PC gaming has been since the pandemic hit. Like what SEGA did after they released Persona 4 G on steam.

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Damn only saw these now
Flibbles looks like it qualifies, will add it in the next batch update thank you

I can't view the Looney Tunes game anymore, is it even still up?

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Reminds me of the elemental spirits from Golden Sun
Thank you :)

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A really good game, +1

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Thank you :)
Will need to do a little bit of research, from the description it sounds like a pet mechanic where you have to raise them.
Just want to be 100% sure about how to mark it with the curator haha

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I can't wait for the Digimon Con, I hope they give a date for Digimon Survive and announce new games (or at least ports).

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Same!!!! Would love if they finally released Digimon Survive, that's been delayed FAR to much at this point haha.
And hey I'd LOVE ports of the Digimon Worlds games, would be amazing!

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Excellent :) thank you for the find

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That game looks great! Only thing it really really really needs is info on what item works on what monster and such but overall a nice start!

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This looks awesome, thank you :)

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Creature keeper looks good! Thanks for sharing :)

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Both look really good thank you :) will add them to the list

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is there a game like jade cocoon? its a pretty long list to compare them all, thats why im asking.

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Looks like rather straight forward Monster Taming mechanics to me.

But I think your specifically talking about a game with Monster Taming, a JRPG story, and world that you can explore from a 3rd person perspective ?

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yes, that.

would like the fusion aspect aswell, but i guess thats just a dream

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Hm I would recommend

https://store.steampowered.com/app/798460/Ni_no_Kuni_Wrath_of_the_White_Witch_Remastered/
Since its just a JRPG with monster taming so might be what your looking for

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1321440/Cassette_Beasts/
Because the whole game is built around fusion, it isn't out yet though

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1042550/Digimon_Story_Cyber_Sleuth_Complete_Edition/
Because its a Pokemon-like JRPG, with monsters and there are a few monster you can only get through fusing them

And then if your specifically looking for fusion focused games these two have that as a key mechanic
https://store.steampowered.com/app/830370/Monster_Crown/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1716120/Monster_Rancher_1__2_DX/

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Lol... oh no... do I WANT to add this to the list ?

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I wouldn't do that personally :P

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Agreed! Lol

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That night and day clock looks like a ripoff of digimon world clock...
Edit: it seems even the mechanic is similar to digimon world.

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Yeah daaamn looks like the game took a LOT of inspiration from Digimon World.
I ain't gonna complain though :)

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I hope they will improve the game later on. The game looks way inferior than digimon world from the screenshots. I know that they are just indie games, but still.

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Will add to the list, thank you :)

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Ah brilliant find :)
Had no idea Grimmlins Tale has a Steam page yet, and never heard of Paracreat

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Daamn now that's a unique monster taming game haha, never thought I would see a monster taming game with word making gameplay haha. Thank you for the find :)

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This one looks really unique indeed! If they'll add steam deck support then I'll buy it (if I'll get deck at least this year :D)
It looks a bit like mobile port, hopefully it will be a good one^^

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Humz, In-App Purchases, not sure if this will be a free game or not, but if not that doesn't sound very good to me.

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It looks like a mobile game as well, so might be a PC release of a mobile game?

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Could be, that would explain it indeed, just wonder if that person will ask money for it AND in-app purchases since that will most likely not help him/her with the sale.

I checked them again and seems this game is a free browser game...
https://mebula.bitmeup.com/
(hope I am allowed to post that here)

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Hm, okay cool, thank you for scratching around :)

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Awesome, thank you for the find

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Love the aesthetic, thank you for the find :)

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