There’s a lengthy record of Pokémon video games that these with out Nintendo consoles have missed out on, and the Minecraft-like Pokopia is all set to trigger extra envy subsequent 12 months. Most individuals could have performed Palworld, the edgy cousin of our favourite monster-taming sequence, however there are many video games like Pokémon that deserve extra reward. Fortuitously, you may rating one in every of them (particularly, Temtem), in addition to seven different underrated indies, for simply $1.75 / £1.55 every, because of a brand new Humble Bundle.
Pokémon is a little bit of a sore spot for these taking part in on the very best gaming PCs. Positive, there are methods of getting the long-lasting franchise in your laptop, however they contain emulators and ROMs, and are not viable for law-abiding residents of the web. Temtem might be the closest anybody has come to capturing the identical magic as these Nintendo video games, and also you need not go downloading random .exe recordsdata to get it.
Among the finest MMOs to copy the monster-catching motion of the Pokémon franchise, Temtem’s vibrant aesthetics disguise a splendidly complicated battle system. Whereas Gamefreak has chosen to make Pokémon easy sufficient for younger children to take pleasure in, Temtem is like placing spikes on a Pokéball and catching it together with your naked palms.
It has every little thing you might need from a Pokémon-style recreation. You could have 165 distinctive creatures to catch and practice, particular variants of various Temtems, difficult lairs, and a full story about unleashing your tamer potential. Even when the truth that it is an MMO annoys you, you may take pleasure in Temtem as a single-player recreation, like I did. I really suppose that that is the superior technique to expertise it, too, since I want taking part in alone.
Nevertheless, if you’d like a recreation like the long-lasting ’90s franchise, nothing is extra nostalgia-fueled than Cassette Beasts. Sporting its affect on its sleeve, it is among the best indie video games to seize that Pokémon feeling, and it sees you commerce out these Pokéballs for an excellent ol’ normal tape recorder (I hope youthful readers nonetheless recognise that historical expertise). Fortunately, it isn’t only a 1:1 recreation of Pokémon both, as you may really use a fusion system to create extra highly effective beasts to make use of in battles.
These are two of probably the most just like Nintendo’s sequence, however lots of them have a ‘Mon-like aesthetic with out utilizing the monster-catching vibe of the sequence. Meg’s Monster is a narrative recreation with JRPG mechanics like Pokémon, however your character is definitely undefeatable. So how do you lose? Properly, your foremost aim is to maintain Meg from crying, and if one tear falls out of these eyeballs, it is recreation over for you. It is an uncommon mechanic, and I recognize the devs attempting to do one thing totally different.
This bundle is price these three video games alone, however you may have them and 5 extra, because of the brand new Critter Chaos Bundle at Humble Bundle. That is eight video games for simply $14 / £12.45, or $1.75 / £1.55 every, which is ridiculously low-cost. Nevertheless, this bundle is barely obtainable within the Humble Retailer till Wednesday, October 8, 2025 – so chances are you’ll wish to seize it earlier than you lose this nice catch. Here is a full record of the video games included under:
Temtem
Fruitbus
Farewell North
Meg’s Monster
Cassette Beasts
Moonstone Island
Copycat
Coroman
Fortuitously, all of those Pokémon-like video games are additionally Verified for Valve’s console, so you may play them on the go, too. Talking of which, try our record of the very best Steam Deck video games if you want to search out different handheld classics. In the meantime, our record of the very best upcoming PC video games is crammed with a number of different causes to be excited.
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