>>51006224I have played Monster Sanctuary for over 50 hours and never PvP'd in it, nor do I have any desire to. It actually has a very robust amount of difficult and fun single player things to do. For the price, the amount of content it has is amazing. I still have five more or those hidden keeper statues in the magma chamber to battle. Once you beat the game, you have a bunch of those, you can work on 5 starring every boss to collect them, there's a ton of extra optional areas to explore, tons of cool equipment to find, and tweaking all your monsters to have the perfect build is fun as fuck.
Monster Crown has weaker gameplay sure, but you can basically make your own monster. You can tweak the stats, moveset, type, color pallet, everything you want to do to make almost whatever the fuck you want. Again, the world is actually fun and rewarding to explore. I think it actually does the best job of delivering a monster taming adventure where you can just set out in the world and feel like you actually have your own unique creatures like a special snowflake. What do you think of the starter I made for myself? I used to call it a Beast Slime, since I gave it a bunch of amorphous kinda slimey majin buu kind of attacks, but now I just call it Gigu.
I really, really recommend Disc Creatures. It's a hidden gem and I've never seen anyone else discuss it. Fantastic game with good spritework, good music, great unique gameplay that isn't like anything else I've played, and it's as difficult as you want it to be, since for the entire game you have the ability to delevel any of your monsters by 10 levels in exchange for a small stat boost in whatever stat you choose (It caps after doing this like 10 times or something).