Beltmon

Beltmon is a monster-collecting game presented as a parody of the genre. Players travel across the land to find and collect creatures known as Beltmon, which are kept on the player’s belt. The game contains dozens of different creatures, each with its own transformations, and players use them to build a personal team and take on the champions found in every city.

The player controls Tray, a 31-year-old unemployed man who still lives with his mother. Along the way he meets a range of characters with their own personalities and battles them to prove himself as a Beltmon User and to show his mother he has made something of himself. The main antagonist is Lord Terfling, who leads an army of TERFs intent on banning Beltmon from transforming.

The game uses a deliberately gloomy pixel art style with darker landscapes than is typical for the genre, along with retro-style animations and old-fashioned grinding modelled on 1990s monster-collecting games. The soundtrack is rock-based and draws on the sound of the early 2000s. The developer states that the game is a parody, and that any similarities to existing games or media are intended as satire.