Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

Every monster has a price. You decide its worth.

Borrow the money. Rent a little shop on a rain-soaked backstreet. Buy, breed, raise and sell monsters, turning bloodlines, reputation and the right connections into your next deal.

Monsters & Banknotes combines monster breeding and raising with shop management in a criminal underworld. Walk the streets, talk to customers, find the right creature for the job and name your price.

Build a bloodline worth buying

• Discover 141 species. Weigh innate stats, pedigree, rarity, colour variants and unusual traits when choosing what to buy and breed.
  
• Uncover 69 mutations and hidden special pairings through rumours. Raise and appraise each new arrival, then plan the next generation.
  
• Choose skills and tactics for one-on-one arena bouts. Titles increase a monster's value. Sold monsters live on under new owners and can cross your path again through tournaments and events.

The right monster. The right customer. Your price.

• Listen to customers, recommend a suitable creature, demonstrate its abilities and negotiate the deal.
  
• Arrange cages and equipment, expand your shop, and hire a sales clerk to handle sales while you are out.
  
• Build trust through regular customers and branching requests, and earn your place at the annual grand auction. A monster born in your shop can still earn you a breeder's prize after it is sold.

Business has an underworld

Pay the tribute and keep trading, or refuse the collectors and defend your shop. Deal with the Grey Herons and the Shiomi Crew, smuggling, raids and the underground arena. Follow the illicit trade into gang conflicts, found your own syndicate and contest the city's territory. Your deals and decisions become part of the shop's history.

Walk the rainy streets. Trade at your own pace.

Pixel-art people and creatures inhabit a three-dimensional town of wet cobbles and glowing signs. Explore 14 maps, including the shop, breeding room, market, arena and auction house, under changing weather and time of day.

• Business time stands still while you read, think and rearrange the shop. Major actions advance the four parts of each day.
  
• Gradual feature unlocks, objective prompts and familiar faces help you find your next step.
  
• A single-player, one-time purchase with no stamina system or microtransactions.
  
• Keyboard and mouse, with partial gamepad support. Text in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Russian.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Generative AI was used during development as a coding assistant and to assist with drafting and translating store-page and marketing text. Some pixel-art assets were rendered by deterministic drawing code written with AI assistance; the final images were not directly output by a text-to-image or diffusion model. All shipped and published content was reviewed and edited by the developer. No generative AI runs in the game, and no content is generated from player input.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Contains monster combat, injury and death, criminal themes including extortion, smuggling and raids, and text descriptions of monsters attacking people. Includes simulated arena betting with fictional in-game currency and references to alcohol. There is no real-money gambling or cash-out system.