Procemon: You Must Catch Them is a monster-catching sport the place every little thing is generated, tasking you with overcoming evil regardless of infinite chaos.

You’re out to beat up the shareholders of the sinister Infinity Corporation, and also you want some creatures that can assist you do it. What creatures will you get as you discover, although? As talked about, every little thing is procedurally generated within the sport, so that you by no means know what you’ll run into. You can’t even guess the names of the monsters, as these are generated as nicely. As are their assaults. And their animations, the sounds they make, and their particular results are generated as nicely. You want to really get to know your monsters to determine use them, as there’s no approach to inform what you will have in your fingers.

That procedural technology extends into different areas. Each monster has an outline, however these are generated as nicely (and often hilarious or weird due to it). If you need extra monsters, you possibly can attempt to appeal them onto your crew. May as nicely, seeing because it’s arduous to know what’s good or not. You may also fuse them collectively to make one thing new, drawing on that energy of randomness and chaos to see for those who get some fascinating new creature.

It’s so chaotic and unpredictable that it’s enjoyable to only gather whoever you possibly can and roll with what the sport offers you. This is what’s made the sport so intriguing, to me. When I by no means have any thought of what I’m preventing or what creature I’m befriending, I’m not fear about stats or preventing capabilities. I’m simply getting to fulfill these unknowable creatures and take them on unusual adventures. It invested me extra in discovery and in bonding with the creatures. It’s truthfully a neat tackle monster-catching video games, and helped me type an emotional connection that I haven’t felt with these sorts of video games in a while.

Plus, some of these things the sport generates is downright hilarious.



Procemon: You Must Catch Them is out there now on itch.io and Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been masking indie video games for numerous websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is consistently looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games will be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.