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Play Overview
Cassette Beasts (2023) is a turn-based collecting and battling game where you use retro cassette tapes to transform your character into different creatures. It's similar to Pokemon. You explore the dense island and solve environmental puzzles, win turn-based fights, and form relationships with the islanders. It stands out for the intricate, nuanced battle system and how you can combine two monsters to form a new one with unique powers and abilities.
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 10 months ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 8 weeks ago.
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 10 months ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 8 weeks ago.
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Play Style
This is a Battle, Collecting and Role-Play game with Action, Adventure, Fighting and Narrative elements. You can play with 1 to 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online. After the initial introduction, you can play the entire story together with another player locally, battling and collecting different monsters as a duo. The second player can join or leave at any time, and if they're not playing, the second character is controlled by the game but continues to follow you around.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Rated for younger players in the US. Rated ESRB EVERYONE for Fantasy Violence and Mild Language.
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.
Costs
Cassette Beasts usually costs £13.49 to £17.49.
You can buy extra cosmetics for your characters, which come with the Deluxe edition on consoles.
It's important to set up your accounts and devices appropriately. More information is on our Financial Resources page.
Cassette Beasts
 | Xbox X|S | £16.74 | – | Free Xbox Game Pass |
| Xbox One | £16.74 | – | Free Xbox Game Pass |
 | PC | £16.75 | – | – |
 | Switch | £13.49 | – | – |
Cassette Beasts: Deluxe Edition
There are the following additional costs associated with this game:- In-Game Purchases: Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience.
You can buy extra cosmetics for your characters, which come with the Deluxe edition on consoles.
It's important to set up your accounts and devices appropriately. More information is on our Financial Resources page.
Game Details
Release Date: 26/04/2023, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1-2
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)
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