Games Like Dragon Warrior Monsters
Quick Answer
The closest games to Dragon Warrior Monsters are Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, Pokemon Emerald, Siralim Ultimate, Monster Sanctuary and Cassette Beasts. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Dragon Warrior Monsters, and what does not.
What Made Dragon Warrior Monsters Work
Dragon Warrior Monsters is the Game Boy monster collector with a breeding system instead of an evolution chart — two monsters make a third, and the family trees go deep enough that people still map them. It came out the same year as Pokemon Gold and has a genuinely different design philosophy.
9 Games Like Dragon Warrior Monsters
1.Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince
The modern entry, and the breeding system is intact.
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The generation with the Battle Frontier, if you want the other approach.
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Creature fusion taken to absurd depth, and effectively endless.
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The best non-Pokemon monster collector, with a clever type system.
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The other great non-Pokemon collector, and the raising is the game.
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How These Picks Match Dragon Warrior Monsters
Dragon Warrior Monsters is catalogued here as a Japanese RPG and creature-collecting RPG on the Nintendo Game Boy. All nine picks share at least one of its genre tags — nine RPGs and six adventures among them.
Two of the picks have their own list on this site, catalogued under the Game Boy Advance and the PC & Modern Multi-Platform. Siralim Ultimate, Monster Sanctuary, Cassette Beasts, Nexomon: Extinction and Coromon are from small or self-published studios. Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, Pokemon Emerald and Monster Hunter Stories 2 are, like Dragon Warrior Monsters, games a child and an adult can play together.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Dragon Warrior Monsters |
|---|---|---|
| Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince | RPG, Adventure, Family | RPG, Adventure |
| Pokemon Emerald | RPG, Adventure, Family | RPG, Adventure |
| Siralim Ultimate | RPG, Strategy, Indie | RPG |
| Monster Sanctuary | RPG, Platformer, Indie | RPG |
| Cassette Beasts | RPG, Adventure, Indie | RPG, Adventure |
| Monster Rancher 1 and 2 DX | RPG, Simulation | RPG |
| Nexomon: Extinction | RPG, Adventure, Indie | RPG, Adventure |
| Monster Hunter Stories 2 | RPG, Adventure, Family | RPG, Adventure |
| Coromon | RPG, Adventure, Indie | RPG, Adventure |
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