Planned Release Date: December 2026

About This Game

ALPHA DEMO — GAME IN DEVELOPMENT

Not Monsters is an online social deduction brawler set in a medieval village. Some villagers are monsters in disguise. The free Demo is an early alpha prototype: content, balance, and polish are still in development. We are targeting Steam Early Access around Halloween 2026 and full release around Christmas 2026; these are goals and may change.

THE CURRENT ALPHA DEMO

Gather a group of at least four players. Host a public or private room, join an existing room by code or matchmaking, choose a character, and ready up in the chapel to begin a match. Explore the village, decide whom to trust, and confront the monsters. The alpha focuses on proximity voice chat, a changing day/night cycle, and physical player combat. Round length and balance are still being tuned.

THE ROAD AHEAD

We plan to expand roles, workplaces, village tasks, and ways to gather and confront suspects as development continues. These planned systems describe the direction of the full game; they may not be available in the current Demo.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Not monsters was developed as a solo dev project, and AI was used with careful oversight to support the creative process for both art and code.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Includes moderate violence, and death.