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Monsterland
Also known as Monsterland, m, monsterland
After years in cryoprison, Dr. Green awakens on a mutant-infested Earth colony. Seeking redemption and his estranged daughter Anna, he battles through a ravaged planet in a 4-hour campaign of intense combat, encounters, and adventure. Monsterland has hybrid tile/ASCII visuals & Steam Deck support.
Last update
19 May 2026
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Browse past updates and patch notes for this game.
12 updates
April 2025
- ASCII renderer made prettieralso ASCII renderer is now default.
November 2024
- Renderer updatewalls will have appearance of depth 2. power-up glow effect enhanced, tank has a shadow suggesting height 3. this is a huge performance hit, hopefully not felt on modern gaming systems
- I'm working on an RPG which takes place after the events of this game, which involves some retconning of Monsterland's setting in order to fit it, and I've been unhappy with Monsterland's very generic name for a long ti…Store
- Optional intro level is backAlso, minor narrative changes in prison and last level. Now forces SDL into D3D mode just in case SDL would misbehave on Steam Deck.
- Brightness option addedMonsterland now has an option to alter in-game brightness in "Game/Video options".
- another retconslightly changed game ending screen to alter location of the events
- Minor story retcon...... in case I reuse this universe in my new game. Basically location of protagonist's daughter moved back to Sarang-2 instead of Earth.
October 2024
- Bugfix in final boss mapOn final boss map, the "exit portal" may become inactive, so the player can't go to epilogue maps. The issue could be remedied by saving and loading the savegame. Now the issue has been fixed in code.
November 2022
- Full support for Steam Deck controlsMonsterland is now fully controllable via Steam Deck with zero configuration required.
January 2022
- The full-graphics mode was a mixed bag. Characters looked particularly bad. Monsterland is now using a hybrid mode which preserves its ASCII personality while retaining the most often encountered/boring ASCII - walls, f…Store
September 2020
- What's New: Permanently switched graphics from ASCII to tiles, replicating most ASCII effects in tile form (damage splash, blood). Renderer migrated from SDL1 to SDL2, no longer using unstable custom OpenGL code New int…Store
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