Montabi (v1.0.4)

Saving a city from a local gang sounds straightforward until every fight becomes a compact tactical puzzle built around a team of collectible creatures. Montabi blends monster collecting, roguelike run structure, and deckbuilding into a colorful strategy game where careful positioning matters as much as raw damage. The tone is upbeat and approachable, but its battles ask players to think ahead, protect their trainer, and find clever ways to turn a small squad’s abilities into a winning plan. Runs take place across a city filled with hostile encounters, bosses, recovery stops, and unpredictable events.

Combat unfolds on a 3×3 grid, giving movement, range, and placement real weight. Players recruit from more than 60 Montabi, then construct a team whose individual moves, cards, equipment, and charms support one another. Winning battles earns growth, allowing creatures to level up, evolve, and add stronger or more specialized abilities to the deck; the best choices often come from adapting to what a run offers instead of chasing one fixed build. Trainers also define the broader strategy, whether that means manipulating positions, fighting aggressively at close range, or enhancing the team through support effects, and their defeat ends the run like a fallen king in chess.

What separates Montabi from a standard creature battler is the way its evolutions and card drafting feed directly into a tight positional combat system. Randomized city events and the variety of potential team combinations give repeated attempts enough uncertainty to encourage experimentation, while cafes offer essential breathing room between dangerous encounters. Fans of Slay the Spire-style drafting and Pokémon-inspired collecting should find the blend immediately appealing, though the grid tactics bring it closer to a lightweight tactical RPG than a pure card game. It suits newcomers because each battle space is easy to read, but strategy veterans can chase deeper synergies, unusual evolution paths, and trainer-led builds as they work toward defeating the X Gang’s leader.