Metamon — Play Free Online

Metamon is a monster-collecting RPG that runs in the browser. You start on Metamon Island with a small squad of pocket pets, head out to hunt wild creatures, and use the wins to grow a bigger and stronger team. It is filed under action here, but the heart of it is collecting, battling and levelling up rather than twitch shooting.

A session is built around a simple cycle: explore, fight, earn points and gold, then spend them on upgrades and evolutions. That makes it a very different pace from the jumpers on Doodle Jump. Instead of one more attempt at a higher score, the pull is watching your team become stronger and seeing what your monsters evolve into.

It suits a player who has finished a few rounds of the arcade games on this site and wants something with a sense of progression, where choices carry forward from one battle to the next.

How to play

On a keyboard, move with the arrow keys or WASD and use the mouse to aim and to pick options in menus. On a phone or tablet, tap and swipe instead.

The game describes its loop as hunting wild creatures and defeating rival Metamon armies to expand your squad. Winning battles earns points and gold. Those pay for upgrading your monsters and evolving them into stronger forms. The game also stresses managing your team's health at your base, so you go into each duel with a squad that is ready to fight.

Tips

• Return to base to recover your team's health before taking on a tougher opponent, rather than pushing on with a weakened squad.
• Spend your points and gold on upgrades and evolutions regularly. A stronger team makes the next fights easier.
• Add new creatures to the squad when you can. A larger team gives you more options in a battle.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you want to stay with collecting and battling, there are not many close matches here, so Metamon is a change of pace. Bloons Tower Defense 2 is the nearest in spirit, a strategy game where you build up and plan your defences. Fireboy and Watergirl is a puzzle-platformer for one or two players. Helix Jump is a quick one-button arcade game if you want a short break from the longer progression.

The game loads in the page with nothing to install, and the touch controls mean it works on a phone as well as a laptop.