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
Adorimon : Arena of Ancients
Aeternum Quest
Aethermancer
After The End: The Harvest
Alchemic Cutie
Alekon
Along Came a Dragonfly
Amber Island
Anima Island
Anitons
Anode Heart
AquaFantasia
Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim 2
Asyle
Athenian Rhapsody
Atrio: The Dark Wild
Auroria
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
Caviar
Chainmonsters
Chimera Island
Chronomon
Collectamon
Cornucopia
Coromon
Costume Kingdom
Creature Keeper
Creatures Inc
Creatures of Ava
D.A.M. Champion
Daemon Sigil
Deity Quest
Desktop Dinosaurs
Dicefolk
Digimon Masters Online
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Complete Edition
Digimon Survive
Digimon World Next Order
Dino Park
Dinogotchi
Disc Creatures
Dome-King Cabbage
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
Home of the Yokai
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 Horrors!
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
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
Monstronomy
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
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
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
Topac Battle
Tournament of Tamers
Train'em
Unleashed
Untamed Isles
Via Mortis
Vilmonic
VirtuaCreature
Virtual Beepic
Void Monsters Spring City Tales
Volseons
Volzerk : Monsters and Lands Unknown
Voxelotl Garden
VR Animal Kids Rumble
Weirdlands
Wildsong
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
Critter Crosser
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
TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children
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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Oooooooh this looks REAL interesting!!!
Thank you :)

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The list looks good, a Rachart with the ability to sort by reviews would be great :D

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Added you to Steam because i don't know what the damn hell a Rachart is haha

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Here's a tutorial: Tutorial

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It has creature caring in so it counts :P
Thank you :)

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I remember this from my day of playing monster taming games on mobile :)
Nice that they made a PC port for it

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I'm unsure about this game... don't really see any monster taming elements here

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This looks really cute and well-made, I love how colourful it is! Thanks :)

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Glad I could help - you're welcome ♥

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Ah f*ck yeah!!!! Finally have a store page for this!
I'm super excited for this game :) thank you for posting this.

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I like the idea of this thread. I really love this kind of games. I only wish that this thread narrowed down the choices (by choosing the ones w/ better quality). Still, thank you!

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I guess that's fair!

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Problem is also that many of these games are very unknown so not many reviews and the fact that you also add games that are not even out yet, so best is indeed for the person to decide it themselves since there are enough games that people would call awesome, good quality, etc. and I would call ugly, boring, etc. so yeah...

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I agree with this point. Two games that I really liked are regarded as really bad games by the majority of the gaming community haha.
So to each their own, I'm only here to try and make a full list of games with monster-taming elements.

My only exclusion is explicit games really.

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You can use something like this.
Sorts games tagged as creature collectors by SteamDB ratring and I blacklisted all games tagged Hidden Objects.
You can modify it further to your liking. If you don't want anything tagged casual, you just filter those out too and you get that.
Want RPG elements instead? Tada!

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Thank you!

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This Monster Hunter Stories inspired game looks really good :)
Thank you for posting it

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Requires 3rd-Party Account: Personal PC using Socket.io, Node JS, and RethinkDB. The game uses index.html and registration.html to create accounts for this server. (Supports Linking to Steam Account) <-- that looks like a long list, no clue what those all mean to be honest!

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Looks promising :)

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Volzerk : Monsters and Lands Unknown <-- reminds me a bit of what I saw from Monster Hunters or whatever it's called, looks interesting!

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Yeah it 100% gives off Monster Hunter Stories vibes

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Oh nice find!!

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Ooooh nice find yeah :) thank you

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Honorable mention, for (Go There) ?

( Quite a simplified Monster-taming game, as it's more something like a boss-rush. But beating each one grant you a new friend. )
Anyway, alongside its prequel (She Save), it's pretty unique.

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"She Save" looks like a boss rush with no monster taming elements to it
"Go There" looks like a main list entry since you' actively have the choice to capture the monster after beating it and then using it in combat seems to be the main combat mechanic of the game as well.

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Thanks. Well, at first, I wasn't sure for "Go There", since it's very minimalistic. ^^' But now, it's fine.
( And no problem for "She Save", either. :) I was just pointing as a previous game from the same dev'. )

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Thank you for bringing the games to the communities attention :)
I appreciate every single suggestion

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Lol :P, it honestly looks like a really interesting little game
Thank you for the find

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Looks really nice :) thank you

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