Developer Massive Monster
Publisher Devolver Digital
Format PC (tested), PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Release Out now
Massive Monster’s diverting hybrid of settlement-builder and dungeon-crawler is built around a pretty good gag. As a sacrificial lamb, you’re led to the slaughter, only to wind up in a strange realm with a shadowy figure offering to resurrect you in return for setting up a cult in their name. Before accepting the red coronet that grants you power over others, we recall an earlier warning to “take heed; for a crown cannot sit on two brows”. Nevertheless, it seems a sweet enough deal. We accept and so sheep becomes shepherd; it’s the anthropomorphic beasts of this