Creature Keeper

Item: Creature Keeper
Rating: 51
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-05-17

Summary

Engaging combat and creature collection system.
Charming aesthetic and well-received music.
Humorous writing and quirky character design.
Lacks polish; frequent buggy experience.
Unintuitive and cumbersome UI/UX design.
Poor AI and questionable combat balance.

Categories

Monster Collecting Real-time Combat Exploration Character Progression Gardening Single-player Story Action RPG Party-based Combat

Reviews (sample size): 76
Helpful reviews: 72%
Unhelpful reviews: 26%
Protest reviews: 1%

51%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
49%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 106
Negative points: 169
Gameplay points: 35
Perf. points: 5
Rec. points: 55
Misc points: 11

Point	Description	Importance
Engaging combat, creature collection Description The game features engaging combat with a unique monster-collecting system. Players enjoy taming, battling, and collecting creatures, with mechanics that add depth and strategy. The game incorporates a rock-paper-scissors balance system for creature effectiveness. Importance 72%	The game features engaging combat with a unique monster-collecting system. Players enjoy taming, battling, and collecting creatures, with mechanics that add depth and strategy. The game incorporates a rock-paper-scissors balance system for creature effectiveness.	72%
Charming aesthetic, great music Description The game has a charming aesthetic with appealing visuals, animations, and creature designs. The music is also a highlight, with some reviewers comparing it to classic RPGs. These elements contribute to a positive and memorable experience. Importance 54%	The game has a charming aesthetic with appealing visuals, animations, and creature designs. The music is also a highlight, with some reviewers comparing it to classic RPGs. These elements contribute to a positive and memorable experience.	54%
Humorous writing, quirky characters Description The game features humorous and lighthearted writing, with engaging dialogue and quirky characters. The story is enjoyable, with unique cities and characters that add to the game's charm. These elements contribute to a positive and memorable experience. Importance 35%	The game features humorous and lighthearted writing, with engaging dialogue and quirky characters. The story is enjoyable, with unique cities and characters that add to the game's charm. These elements contribute to a positive and memorable experience.	35%
Farming and exploration elements Description The game incorporates farming and exploration elements. The farm system provides a way to obtain items and power up the team. Importance 9%	The game incorporates farming and exploration elements. The farm system provides a way to obtain items and power up the team.	9%
Creative bestiary system Description The game features a creative bestiary system. The game's version of a PokéDex allows spending points in a tree related to the creature to unlock cosmetics and make befriending future creatures easier. Importance 9%	The game features a creative bestiary system. The game's version of a PokéDex allows spending points in a tree related to the creature to unlock cosmetics and make befriending future creatures easier.	9%
Active developer support Description The developer is very active in helping people with their issues and is aware of the issues and plan to fix them. The developer boosted player damage by 500% to fix the initial lack of damage in the early game. Importance 9%	The developer is very active in helping people with their issues and is aware of the issues and plan to fix them. The developer boosted player damage by 500% to fix the initial lack of damage in the early game.	9%
Deep skill progression system Description The game features a skill system with elemental relations and randomly rolled stats. Players can trade in unwanted skills for better ones, adding depth to character progression. Importance 7%	The game features a skill system with elemental relations and randomly rolled stats. Players can trade in unwanted skills for better ones, adding depth to character progression.	7%
Varied team compositions Description Party size depends on Party Points, allowing for varied team compositions. Increasing character stats by catching more creatures encourages continued exploration and collection. Importance 7%	Party size depends on Party Points, allowing for varied team compositions. Increasing character stats by catching more creatures encourages continued exploration and collection.	7%
Unique weapon mechanics Description The shield adds a short dash that can damage and stun enemies, while also healing the player upon a successful parry. The boomerang is great for combos, bouncing off walls to hit enemies and rack up damage. Importance 7%	The shield adds a short dash that can damage and stun enemies, while also healing the player upon a successful parry. The boomerang is great for combos, bouncing off walls to hit enemies and rack up damage.	7%
Friendly monster assistance Description Friendly monsters sometimes help fight bad monsters without being in your party. Importance 3%	Friendly monsters sometimes help fight bad monsters without being in your party.	3%
Customizable companions Description The game allows you to give your companions hats. Importance 3%	The game allows you to give your companions hats.	3%
Self-aware genre parody Description The game features humor, including puns and self-aware genre parody, such as the player character's name being "blank". Importance 3%	The game features humor, including puns and self-aware genre parody, such as the player character's name being "blank".	3%
Chill and cozy experience Description The game is a chill and cozy RPG experience. Importance 3%	The game is a chill and cozy RPG experience.	3%
'Home brewed' soul Description The reviewer appreciates the 'home brewed' soul of the game. Importance 3%	The reviewer appreciates the 'home brewed' soul of the game.	3%