Fit check
Is Monsters and Weapons worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who enjoy making resource decisions during combat-focused runs
- Roguelike fans who want class unlocking and varied item combinations
- Players seeking difficult achievements and an additional challenge mode
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for a story-led adventure rather than repeated strategic runs
- Players who prefer consistently paced real-time combat instead of partly turn-based encounters
- Players seeking large-scale battles involving many units
- Players who want a low-pressure experience without difficult achievements or an extra challenge mode
Our take on Monsters and Weapons
Its focus on decisions, inventory choices, and controlled combat pacing leaves less room for broad exploration or a story-heavy structure. The run-based format also places repeated strategic planning ahead of long-form character development.
What is Monsters and Weapons?
Monsters and Weapons is a strategy roguelike built around choices and resource use.
Players fight through three areas as one of ten classes, purchasing items and managing an inventory before facing bosses and a final enemy. Battles use a partly turn-based format in which players control the pace of encounters. Runs include luck, difficult achievements, varied equipment, and item combinations that affect decisions. Ten classes can be unlocked, while Legendary Mode adds a more demanding challenge. Victory comes from defeating the final boss after managing purchases, resources, combat choices, and equipment across the run.
How Monsters and Weapons plays
- 01Ten Unlockable Classes
- Each run can use one of ten distinct classes, which become available through unlocking.
- 02Paced Turn-Based Combat
- Encounters combine turn-based actions with player control over the speed of combat.
- 03Resource Management
- Purchases and other resource decisions affect progress through the areas.
- 04Item Combinations
- A range of items can be combined in different ways during a run.
- 05Legendary Mode
- An unlockable mode adds a higher level of challenge after it becomes available.
Monsters and Weapons compared to similar games
Shogun Showdown also uses roguelike, turn-based combat, but centers on positioning, attack tiles, skills, and deck construction before confronting the Shogun. Monsters and Weapons instead emphasizes class selection, shopping, inventory use, resource management, and item combinations across three areas. Xenonauts focuses on commanding persistent soldiers in a Cold War alien-defense campaign, rather than individual class-based runs.
Monsters and Weapons: platforms & release
Is Monsters and Weapons worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who enjoy making resource decisions during combat-focused runs. Skip it if: players looking for a story-led adventure rather than repeated strategic runs.
Where can I download Monsters and Weapons?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Monsters and Weapons's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Monsters and Weapons on?
Windows only.
