
The AI benefits as much from this system as the player does, even when it does lead to some annoying situations like the wild monsters KO’ing itself before you have the chance to catch it.

It gives players, trainers, and Temtem alike a lot of room to make a comeback from a weaker position. Certain moves are also unavailable when a monster is summoned to battle, ensuring that high damage moves aren’t available for immediate use and leaving for a fairer fight. Depending on the move used, the bar drains quickly, and exceeding stamina usage causes your creature to overexert and damage themselves, making them vulnerable (and in turn, leaving the trainer in an awkward position). Temtem’s turn-based gameplay is based on your cute little monster’s available moveset against a limited amount of stamina available to them at the beginning of battle.

It would be a bit presumptuous of me to assume the reader knows how a Pokémon game plays but doing so lets me get to the interesting parts of the game-its stamina system, techniques, and move behaviour. Yes, the console wasn’t without its own Pokémon-likes, but I think the game makes for a far stronger offering for the platform thanks to the content available and the social connectivity that intertwines in-between said content.Īt the very heart of Temtem is its battle system.
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It’s September release marks its full 1.0 release alongside its console debut on Xbox, making its bed right alongside the likes of Ooblets and Nexomon. This game has been in the making for quite a while, making rounds through Steam’s Early Access program on PC for a little over two years now.

Much in the vein of Pokémon (and to a lesser extent Youkai Watch, Digimon, etc), Crema’s latest title is all about leading your player character, a newly made Temtem ‘Tamer’, who will adventure out into the vast islands that make up the game called the Airborne Archipelago and do what any good Tamer does: tame Temtem. Monster collecting fans on Xbox can rejoice-a wild Temtem has appeared! Developed by Crema and published by Humble Games, Temtem is an always online ‘creature-collection adventure’ game.
