Master of the Monster Lair
Master of the Monster Lair is a dungeon crawling RPG with a different twist, whereas in previous dungeon crawlers the objective is to find the dungeons and monsters to clear them, the player creates the…
Master of the Monster Lair is an adventure developed by GAE, released 21 November 2008 on Nintendo DS.
What Master of the Monster Lair is
Master of the Monster Lair is an adventure game developed by GAE and released in 2008. It was published by Atlus. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Master of the Monster Lair is a dungeon crawling RPG with a different twist, whereas in previous dungeon crawlers the objective is to find the dungeons and monsters to clear them, the player creates the dungeon (or a monster lair in this case) in order to attract the monster and trap it to destroy it. There are 23 different rooms to customize for the player's Monster Lair. The story takes place in a small town called South Arc where the nearby forests are harboring monsters who regularly invade the town and scare of the citizens. This is where the player takes control of an orphan called Owen who is searching for his first job where he encounters a magical talking shovel. After realizing…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Master of the Monster Lair holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Master of the Monster Lair launched on 21 November 2008, within three weeks of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: World at War. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: World at War.
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