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Trying to remember some more obscure ones I've played.

FateGo and other waifu gacha games are honorary monster taming games in my book, and they can be fun, but the crippling of the actual gameplay to encourage monetization really hurts them at times.

Monster Crown was really fun to play because it REALLY feels like an old retro game. Specifically the amateur quality and copious amount of bugs made the game feel like a forgotten older game instead of a retro style modern game. Its lack of popularity also made it so that you can't easily just search up any information you want about the game so you're forced to play it blind in pre internet style. A lot of the really bad bugs have been ironed out so you can play it safer these days, but it honestly really feeds into the 'dark edgy pokemon like world' the game is set in. Lapras eat the first gym leader after you beat him. And the fact that every monster has a completely different form depending on what type you breed it as AND that any monster can be bred with the color pallet of another monster means you can truly customize your creature.