The Monster Within
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A 50's horror comic themed deck building card game with roguelike progression elements. Stop yourself from turning into a monster, or embrace your inner evil and use your new gifts. Choose from a roster of classic monsters and duke it out in The Monster Within!
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ABOUT THIS GAMEMonsters roam the streets of the city, including you! Fight off sinister creatures while stopping yourself from turning into one too in this deck building card game. Craft a unique deck each round from Day cards, Night cards, and Monster cards. Do you try to stay above board and beat your opponents through clever investigation and tactics, use the seeder underbelly of the city to your advantage, or embrace your burgeoning evil instincts? Or maybe mix a bit of all three! Pick one of six different classic monsters to play as. Unlock new cards and characters as you play, unlocking more and more playstyles and strategies. Themed after 1950's horror comics, build the story of your battle with the cards you play.In classic deck building fashion, buy cards to use to damage your opponent, protect yourself, or just buy even better cards in the future. Over two hundred cards to play with and unlock.Take your pick of monsters each with their own cards and strategy. Feed on your foes blood as the Vampire, embrace the night as a the Wraith, make your opponents green with envy as the Plant, crush them with sheer bulk as the Blob, and more! Each monster also has two other monsters it can pair up with to make a mashup monster. Vampire + Wraith? Lich! Cultist + Warlock? Mummy! Mad Scientist + Blob? Play the game and find out!As you loose health, you become more and more monstrous and the cards you can buy change. Keep your health high to stay in the Day, or intentionally let it slip to gain powerful Monster cards. Just don't let yourself fully lose control to the monster within!Fangs, Scaly Skin, Mysterious Secretions, take your pick of Afflictions each round to power up your character and find new strategies to win. What's a little inhumanity when it comes with such power?Use the Blood system to make the game more difficult the more you play it. The harder it is, the faster you'll unlock more content.The Monster Within is fully playable and out of early access! All ten monsters, all ten mashups, almost 50 afflictions, and almost 400 cards are in the game for your deckbuilding pleasure!
Patch Notes & Announcements(28)
MAJORUpdate to 2.1
Surprise update, happy Halloween! New content: Added blood level 10. Added super boss battles unlocked on blood level 10. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/5395aae058028eb97fb57a47ab4689994217533f.png Balan
MAJORUpdate to 2.01
Changed the Shapeshifter enemy ability to reduce class cards by 2 instead of 1 Fixed the unlock condition for Amnesia not showing properly Fixed Doppelganger points not resetting between rounds and ca
MINOROut of Early Access
It's the one year anniversery of The Monster Within releasing into early access! And we're celebrating that with the gaming coming out of early access! Yes, this is the full release! All ten monsters,
MAJORUpdate to 1.402
Content Additions: Add Shapeshifter skits Balance Changes: If you play as Shapeshifter, the Sociopath Affliction is unselectable (because it's way too OP with her)\ Devoted Lackey now costs 5 Put on t
MINOROut of the Shadows
It's been a month since Shapeshifter came out and we've been hard at work to keep up the momentum and finish the game. We've been in early access for a year, but the light at the end of the tunnel is
MAJORUpdate to 1.401
UI Changes: Updated and improved graphics in some menus Changed the Warlock spell banner to look good and less like a stretched piece of art the programmer made Improved Shapeshifter form icons to be
MINORThe Shapeshifter Update
After a two month delay, she's finally here! The Shapeshifter! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/cb46cfb624460c99be349dbc18e96bea3ff8e629.png The Shapeshifter works differently from any other monster in the
MINORFashionably Late
Where's Shapeshifter? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/48132983714206130dcb32d222e4432cccd863d3.png Yes, Shapeshifter should have been out already. But unfortunately, the game's amazing and talented artist
MAJORUpdate to 1.301
Balance Changes: Lowered base damage scaling one stage UI Changes: Small prettification changes and polish Bug Fixes: Fixed Inner Darkness having a giant monster icon Fixed Epiphany showing alternate
MINORThe WarlockUpdate
Sinister whispers, dark patrons, unleash powers from beyond this world with the next monster for The Monster Within! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/d1b017c1a2b5598afd93bba9f4e9ebb4bb3f33f0.png It's the W
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