Monster Rancher 1 DX (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Monster Rancher 1 DX

Monster Rancher 1 DX is an updated version of Monster Rancher, featuring additional save slots, Freeze slots, Monster Hall of Fame slots, memos, rankings, and a high-speed mode. It was released together with…

8 December 2021

What Monster Rancher 1 DX is

Monster Rancher 1 DX is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Koei Tecmo Games and released in 2021. It was published by Koei Tecmo America Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game doesn't have a traditional narrative or plot in the way that some story-driven games do. Instead, the focus is on the player's journey to become a successful Monster Breeder through raising and training a variety of monsters.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the monster rancher series

Monster Rancher 1 DX is the seventh of 9 entries we hold in the monster rancher series. The next entry was Monster Rancher 2 DX in 2021.

See all 9 monster rancher games in release order →

What it launched against

Monster Rancher 1 DX launched on 8 December 2021, within three weeks of Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash and Battlefield 2042. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash, Battlefield 2042.

Official trailer