Cassette Beasts is like pokemon if you are actually good at games. You need a slightly more advanced brain to actually understand what to do in the battles.

Battles start off with 2 AP and you gain 2 more AP per turn. You use AP to use moves that allow you to attack, defend, increase your stats and cause negative effects to the opponents. One core battle mechanic that differentiates this game from any pokemon game and that is "walls". Walls essentially act as damage negation that when deployed, have 3 hit points in them and decay by 1 every time they are hit or a turn passes. To counteract this being spammable and overpowered, the devs made a 20% health sacrifice necessary for the wall to be placed.

A cassette (beast / monster that fights for you) is pretty easily knocked out in this game or at least in correlation to pokemon. When your beast is KOd, the extra damage (if there is any) will be carried over to your personal HP and if that is depleted, you will be KOd for the whole fight meaning you cant deploy any beasts via that person.

Almost all fights will be conducted in 2v2 format although you have full control over both people (that being you and your chosen partner).

Other than the fights, this game has so much more to offer with beautiful hand-drawn cassettes, stories, characters, quests. It is just too much to type for this review. I HIGHLY recommend you play this game and see if it suits your taste :)

This game is so amazing I literally can't put it into words for this review from the art to the story of the game it just so wonderful and so hard to put down not to mention the music its just chefs kiss. 10/10 would recommend.

Great game! A fun and fresh take on the creature collector genre, can't wait to see more from this team!