Fit check
Is Montero worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- RPG players who prefer investigating threats over leveling character skills
- Players who enjoy adapting equipment and defenses to changing locations
- Fans of short fantasy missions with persistent gear between attempts
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking character progression through in-session skill leveling may find the structure limited
- Players who prefer predictable maps and repeatable routines may find randomly generated missions too variable
- Players looking for a purely combat-focused RPG may find investigation, resource management, and settler care central to the experience
Our take on Montero
Rather than centering progression on a growing character, the game keeps the hunter’s skills fixed during each mission and puts advancement in player knowledge, equipment choices, and experience across randomly generated investigations.
What is Montero?
Play as a dwarf monster hunter defending settlers in a procedurally created village.
Each quest usually lasts from half an hour to one and a half hours. The character begins with trained tracking, crafting, fighting, and hunting abilities rather than improving skills during the session. Progress depends on selecting equipment and learning from the world across missions. Investigate the unknown enemy by gathering physical clues, questioning villagers, and examining corpses.
Gather local resources, craft equipment, construct barricades, and place traps before the final confrontation. Settlers can suffer wounds, poisoning, illness, and other conditions, and losing every settler fails the mission. Wild animals, robbers, poisonous fungi, insects, hunger, cold, bleeding, injuries, and stress add further hazards. Successful missions add gear for later attempts.
How Montero plays
- 01Evidence-based investigation
- Identify the location’s final enemy by collecting clues, interviewing residents, and inspecting bodies.
- 02Prepared combat
- Use found materials to make equipment, build defenses, and arrange traps before the boss encounter.
- 03Persistent gear collection
- Completed missions add equipment that remains available for subsequent missions.
- 04Settler survival
- The mission fails if no villagers remain, while injuries, illness, poisoning, and other conditions require attention.
Montero compared to similar games
Montero combines fantasy investigation, village protection, resource preparation, and randomly generated missions, while Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition centers on exploring a strange city and an unconventional story. Back to the Dawn focuses on investigating crime and escaping a prison, whereas Montero asks players to identify a monster threat and keep settlers alive. Ghost of a Tale emphasizes exploration, stealth, disguises, and conversations in an animal-populated medieval world rather than Montero’s evidence gathering, defenses, and survival conditions.
Montero: platforms & release
Is Montero worth it?
It is worth it if: RPG players who prefer investigating threats over leveling character skills. Skip it if: players seeking character progression through in-session skill leveling may find the structure limited.
Where can I download Montero?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Montero's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Montero on?
Windows only.
