If you’ve spent the previous twenty years fantasising about enslaving wild creatures to do your bidding, boy howdy, do I’ve excellent news. Temtem is a Pokemon-inspired MMO for PC that got here out on early entry yesterday. Everything you realize and love from the Pokemon games you had been by no means allowed to play is right here. Gyms are dojos, trainers are tamers, and your menagerie of lovely preventing beasts use elemental assaults in turn-based battles. It is Pokemon with synonyms and multiplayer. You may like that.
It actually is similar components. You decide certainly one of three beginning Temtems, then head out and discover three floating islands (six as soon as the game’s completed) whereas taming wild Temtems and choosing fights with different tamers. There are ostentatious baddies as much as one thing nefarious, too.
It’s an MMO, so that you’ll produce other gamers jogging round within the background. You can even convey a pal alongside to struggle in twin battles, the place your Temtems struggle aspect by aspect. That does sound good. Moseying across the wilds, sharing the enjoyment of stumbling on a uncommon creature collectively, then devolving into bitter arguments about who will get to maintain it. I’ll kill anybody who denies me a Ganki, a bee with large bull horns that appears prefer it’s always clapping out of normal contentedness.
I noticed my bee in vidbud Astrid’s have a look at the Temtem alpha final week. She was usually happy, although did discover elements of it just a little grindy.
Developers Crema say they’ve acquired “50% of the game’s content” completed, together with the primary three islands and 80+ Temtem. The full game can have 161+ Temtem, ranked matchmaking, tournaments, and extra social stuff, like housing. They reckon they’ll be completed someday across the center of subsequent yr.
You can nab Temtem for £28/$35/€31 on Steam or the Humble Store.
Guidesman Dave has additionally been on the Temtem beat. Here’s his Temtem guide, and a helpful chart displaying Temtem type resistances and weaknesses.
