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Play Overview
You find yourself on a mysterious island with no idea of how to get home. Setting out to find where you are, you soon encounter a group of adventurers with similar stories to yours. However, they use magical cassette tapes to transform into the island's monster inhabitants. You decide to join their community, using your transformations to fight and protect yourselves as you explore every inch of the island in search to find a way home.
Play involves interacting with the diverse characters you meet, exploring the island, moving from place to place by yourself or with a friend, and completing small puzzles to reach new areas. When you encounter a monster, you record it on your cassette tape and can then transform it into it during turn-based battles with other monsters. Each monster has specific attacks that work with particular types of adversaries.
On top of this, you can combine two recorded monsters into a single, unique monster that possesses special moves, statistics, and attacks. In addition to individual monster attacks, this opens the door to more strategies as you try out different combinations and the moves they possess.
The result is a novel game that combines a dense and richly detailed world brimming with puzzles and secrets with a deep and involved combat system where experimentation and ambition are key to success. Cataloguing new monster species and then experimenting with new moves and fusions is both fun and a unique way to engage with the world.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Cassette Beasts 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 6 months ago.
Play Style
You can play this game in the following styles:
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Skill Level
8+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Still, it’s important for parents and guardians to ensure they understand in-game purchases and have spending limits set-up. There are nuances and intricacies to the battle system with its many synergies and details, and the overworld is dense and full of small puzzles.
Account Rating
- You need be 18-years-old to to subscribe to Xbox Live Gold for online play, but can then configure family accounts for younger players to play online with Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S.
- You need be 18-years-old to subscribe to Nintendo Online, but can then create accounts for children of any age to play online with Nintendo Switch.
Costs
Cassette Beasts
![]() | Xbox X|S | £16.74 | – | Free Xbox Game Pass |
![]() | Xbox One | £16.74 | – | Free Xbox Game Pass |
![]() | PC | £16.74 | – | Free Xbox Game Pass |
![]() | Switch | £17.99 | – | – |
![]() | PC | £16.75 | £8.37 until 10/07/2025 | – |
- In-Game Purchases: Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience.
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You need a subscription to play online:
- You need to purchase a Nintendo Online subscription to play online with Nintendo Switch.
- You need to purchase a Xbox Live Gold subscription to play online with Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S.
You can buy extra cosmetics for your characters, which come with the Deluxe edition on consoles.
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Game Details
Release Date: 26/04/2023, updated in 2023
Price: 50% Off
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1-2 (8 online)
Genres: Battle, Collecting, Role-Play (Action, Adventure, Fighting and Narrative)
Accessibility: 25 features
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Developer: Bytten Studio (@ByttenStudio)