TOP 10 Monster Taming Games For Nintendo Switch That You Can Play RIGHT NOW! 

Turn based monster hunter game really was an absolute top tier banger

Why would people be upset that you have Legends Arceus above Temtem? Legends Arceus was fantastic and I don't see anyone talking about Temtem really.

I swear the world slept on monster hunter stories 2. I enjoy the series so much more than Pokemon yet no one I know has even played it.

I agree with you about extinction. It’s my favorite monster taming franchise outside of Pokémon personally

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory are Mon games I highly recommend if you like Digimon or want to get into Digimon. Also adore Monster Stories games too. Personally hoping they'll be a 3...

I bought Monster Sanctuary on Switch almost a year ago, and even now I feel like it was one of the best purchases I've ever made on the console. The game is fantastic. Months and months later and I STILL just can't stop playing. Trying new teams of different monster combinations, trying teams of the same monsters I've used in the past but with different builds, trying different strategies against various boss monsters and teams, and so on and so forth. It's just so fun. It's just so addicting. I can't stop....I think I need help.

I will always sing the praises of both Monster Hunter Stories 2 and also Monster Sanctuary, and the month or two after Pokemon Legends Arceus released was one of my favorite moments in time in the monster tamer fans community. I also agree with every criticism you have for Temtem. *Despite its upsides, I really just can't get as into-it compared to other single player monster tamers, like Monster Crown and Coromon, because of the always-online, the MMORPG required mechanics, like grinding and the presence of a battle pass.

Personally, I would have ranked Nexomon under Monster Sanctuary. Nexomon story is top tier but the gameplay is barren. Heck, Gen 1 Pokemon has better variety of attacks than Nexomon. I feel like Coromon had more depth in battle mechanics. Status moves are actually useful unlike in Nexomon where you just spam your super effective attacks. The lack of some sort of attack tutorials/TMs really hurt it. Most mons there don't know any moves aside from moves of same type and normal moves. I still enjoyed Nexomon though and it's still worth the price. I just find Monster Sanctuary, Coromon and Monster Hunter Stories 2 overall better.

Thank you for showing Nexomon Extinction that love!!! The dialog had me DYING!!! That part where the little sidekick guy asked “Are we the bad guy?!?!” Was fantastic!!! This list is pretty great and thanks for all of the great content!!!

Monster Hunter Stories 2 deserves more recognition since it it that good of a game.

I just discovered the whole monster tamer genre expansiveness on the recent switch sale. I grew up on pokemon of course, playing Blue and Red back when those came out. Never got into other series like Digimon. Then suddenly i find all these spinoff types of Pokemon and I'm intrigued! I just bought Monster sanctuary the other day because it looked awesome and i love metroidvania. Im enjoying it so far for the few hours I've managed to find to play. I want to get Coromon when it goes on sale, looks great. Probably going to pick up Nexomon too since it's on sale until today. Im digging what im seeing and will have these games on my radar more!

Great picks! Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth is one of my favourites, to mention something not on the list

Digimon survive was a blast and beating the game the second time was even better

Nexomon FTW! Honeslty, I really loved this game. I remember buying it from the store and looking for a guide for S tier mon and ended up finding your channel (almost 2 years ago!). Great recommendation 👍

Now I have even more games to get that I don’t have time for lol. Really helpful and cool video. 👍🏼

It took me a while to finish Nexomon: Extinction since I had layed it off for to long. But I agree, that it's one of the best Monster Taming games out there! (In my opinion) and I can't wait to see what they come up with in Nexomon 3!

I'm playing Survive rigth now and I'm loving it. I'm happy to see it in top 5. I will look forward for your next top 10 after Coromon gets the update and Cassette Beasts cames out.

Pokémon games are always fun to get into and while the stories are basic, they're more fun to get into. Monster Hunter Stories 2 is an awesome sequel with a great story. TemTem was fun too but I agreed with your points about it being an MMORPG and not single player but it's cool to see everyone playing the game in your server.

Thank you for posting this!!! I need this badly.

🚨 ATTENTION TO ALL 3DS USERS 🚨 Since The 3DS Eshop Is Closing Very Soon, Here's A List Of Monster Tamers That You Should Get Before The Eshop Closes For Good: 1. Yo-kai Watch 3(This Is A VERY Important One To Get Because Physical Copies Are Nearly Impossible To Get + It's The Commonly Considered Best Yo-kai Watch Game) 2. Monster Hunter: Stories. 3. Shin Megami Tensei IV 4. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Appocalypes(These Two Are Different Games Btw) 5. Rune Factory 4. 6. Persona Q: Shadow Of The Labyrinth. 7: Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. 8. Pokemon Virtual Console Games (R/B/Y/G/S/C) 9. Shin Megami Tensei: Dvil Survivor Overclocked. 10. Shin Megami Tensei: Dvil Survivor 2: Overclocked. 11: Shin Megami Tensei: Dvil Summoner: Soul Hackers. 12. Crystal Monsters (DSIware)

Total agree with you Ed nexomon and monster sanctuary are the best monster taming game created ever... I have all nexomons and a played all the modes on MS... Just amazing and now I'm super exited for upcoming new game Aethermancer ❤️

I love digimon survive, but for the story not the gameplay. The gameplay tbh I thought was a good first attempt, but when objectively compared to other srpgs it felt lacking. But the game still won me over with the story, routes and characters.

I will always praise monster sanctuary. Solid bestiary, amazing battle system and really solid game0lay and exploration

Siralim Ultimate is my go to on Switch at the moment. So much content and easy to play on the go.

MHS2 is definitely my favorite of this list. And even though I'm not palying now, I take great comfort in that I can always comeback to it for the post story stuff. Which is no surprise since as a while MH as mastered having a post game. Honestly my only and biggest complaint is the missing hatchable monsties. It was super annoying to see Duramboros and Tetsucabra in game and not be able to have them on my team.

Very respectful list Ed I guessed the top 3 but didn’t guess their order correctly lol

I first heard of Monster Sanctuary on this channel and decided to give it a try. I'm loving it! Although I think the game is a bit hard and I get beaten a lot😂

I seriously did NOT expect that ending for Nexomon

Have you tried world of final fantasy? I think is one of the best looking games on switch

i share your love for nexomon! im glad i got the chance to play both 1 & 2 on ps4 !

honestly, I'm surprised everyone is liking next order so much. There wasn't too much attention on original launch, and I'm the first to call it flawed in ways that can't be fixed in a remaster.

Awesome list! How would cassette beasts rank if you were to make a list today? By far my favorite and I can’t stop playing it!

nice list... thank you

Nice i was wondering about this

Recently started Temtem due to the sale on Switch and I 100% agree with everything said about it.

I love Coromon, Monster Sanctuary, Monster Crown, and Siralim 3 and Ultimate.

I was quite fond of the Digimon Cyber Sleuth games. I also bought the combo game on sale for 5 bucks, and then sunk a lot more hours in then most games.

SMT5 was my first shin megami and it was amazing I loved every minute of that game glad it made the list.

Good video but I would personally argue that digimon cyber sleuth was a much better game than surivive. Especially because you technically get 2 games with the Hacker's memory alt story being there. Plus it does a better job at being a tradional RPG where I doubt most would care to play a VN like Survive.

Ngl, I’m glad you dropped a vid this morning. One; Because you make good content. Two; Because I’ve been watching you for some weeks and just now noticed I haven’t subscribed yet 😂 Keep killing it dude!

Do you have a list coming for playstation and xbox in the works?

Judging by your individual review videos of Coromon and Nexomon Extinction respectively, I’m surprised that you ranked C below NE in this video. In the two review videos, it seemed as though you rated C more highly. Please may I ask, what’s the difference here and now?

Surprised Cyber Sleuth didn't make the list

i really love the nexomon games but these ones seems interestings too, if i have an opportunity of try some of these i will

I played some pokemon and temtem aswell, plan to buy Monster Hunter stories 2 but something still bothering me. Does it has multiplayer gameplay such PVP, tournament, or Co-op dungeon for boss event etc? Does it support crossplay and cross save by the way?

Monster Sanctuary is excellent. The replayability is craaaaazy

Still hoping Coromon gets a Physical copy eventually because I do want to pick it up on Switch! Will the Devs do a Physical copy eventually?

Overall good list

i picked up coromon recently (all hail nintendo gold coins) and gotta say i love the potential system so much more then pokemons evs

SMTV vengeance is without question, the best game on switch. Also, Dragon Quest Monsters Dark Prince is also fantastic ~ but this video is older than those games lol.

I would love Nexomon if it wasn't for the horrible level scaling that makes it likely that you'll die with every battle regardless of how strong you train your mons. Sure, strategy is important, but I want to enjoy the story and not have to worry about whiting out every 30 seconds or needing to use all my money on healing items!

Was really not expecting Monster Crown to be where it was lol Not mad of course, just shocked.

Sorry for going off topic, but is there any possibility for Disc Creatures being ported to switch?

I'd only personally swap out for P5R, Digimon Cyber sleuth for Monster crown and Monster hunter but otherwise, hella good list

Hands down nexomon should have been #1…. Very good game

Here! Now gonna watch video xD

Great Channel! > I just wish Nexomon and Coromon came together and made a baby. I've just started Nexomon and the visuals and story is Destroying pokemon by far..... But the Game mechanics is too simple literally just attack, attack, attack style play. Never played Coromon but the monsters and their design remind me of Greek mythology or other mythical monsters that we admire from Earth. Also I heard Coromon is much more harder and it actually has Multiplayer. Which I love. These 2 need to come together and make the ultimate fusion

If only they would port or make a new dragon quest monsters that series is fire

Honestly surprised Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher didn't make the top 10. But there will always be games left off the list.

I've got to know about the SMT franchise. Doesn't anyone on RU-vid have any good walkthroughs of those games?!

Legends Arceus is my favorite pokemon game on the switch so far.

I love temtem - my one issue with the game is that one dojo where you have to remember the “Simon says disco flooring” - I can’t get past the third section of it because my memory is shit, and I wish there was an option to like, for go the floor after your 3rd attempt or something and fight a string of trainers instead, that’s my only issue. For that reason - I’m stuck, and the floor changes all the time so it’s hard for me - but, that’s just my opinion. And because I don’t pay for the chat - I can’t ask someone to help me with this. Other then that, I love temtem.

SMTV's story is great, better than most JRPGs imo. I think it's more SMTIV and Persona fans who really criticize V's story, because those games are very character focused whereas V's story is way more like Nocturne. Which btw if you enjoyed V you need to try Nocturne, it's one of the GOATs very surreal game.

I've played Monster Sanctuary on Switch, and my experience ... is mixed. The exploration is really nice and the monster designs are neat, the skill trees have a lot of customization and depth to tinker around with (plus it's easy to "re-spec" a creature when you want to), but if there's _one_ thing that put me off continuing to play it (over other games in my library) it's the game's level of difficulty. Mainly how there's a HUGE difference between simply fighting wild monsters (of any level) and facing off in a Keeper Duel -- which adds additional rules/mechanics not present against wild monsters that the game does a poor job tutorializing for you. Unlike, say, Pokemon where the difficulty may be lower overall, but _at least it's consistent._ And to be fair to MS, last I checked my save file I'm actually pretty far through the game. I have to beat a fellow Keeper in a Duel before challenging the next wild Champion monster to get another MacGuffin (4th of 5 or somesuch) to advance the story with. And the monster team's averaging Lv.32-35.

Personally I can't stand the obnoxious comedic writing in Nexomon, but aside from that game - or that aspect of that game, really - I like what I'm seeing on this list, I'll check a couple of these out!

Just give me Monster Rancher Online, dagnabbit. Thanks for the list!

11th part is Mario odyssey as it has capturing enemies

Let's face it, the main reason Temtem was made an MMO-like was so that the devs could shoehorn battle passes and microtransactions into the game.

Morning

I actually considered playing TemTem on switch, and then I found out what it needs connection all the time, and because of that you will be unable to even play it if you have no NSO subscription.. Like.. Being unable to play a game what is also cost money without spending even more money on online subscription is outright predatory...

cyber sleuth and hacker memory!!!

I'm surprised Digimon Story Complete didn't make the list. But it makes sense to not have 1/3 of the list be Digimon games.

Casette beast is unreal. Sooooooo good , I can not praise it enough, performance a little bad on switch but who cares, its soo good.

Did they ever fix Tem Tem's shared exp problem if you team with other players?

Sincerely, I dont think Survive even deserves to be on that list, let alone top 5 Gameplay feels sooo barebones, I get its meant to be a VN/SRPG hybrid but that only means its good as such, it doesn't change the fact its not really good as a monster taming game

Monster Hunter stories 2 my top 3

U can play through the story 2 player tho in Temtem

I was so excited for TemTem.... until it revealed that it was an MMO, and now I will never play it 😭

Not even mentioning the Cyber Sleuth games... ...I will respect your opinion though.

Where is cyber sleuth???

Are you playing Pokémon

Monster Hunter Stories 2? More like Baby Kidnapping 2. (I have stolen so many Tigrex eggs from their mothers. I just wanted Monoblos, it's not my fault I stole their child. )

I didn't enjoy survive, the dialogue portions took WAY too long. I like the tactics side, but the visual novel side needs to go. A large portion of gamers who love tactics games just turned away from it. I only beat it due to loving digimon. Another friend who loves tactics games couldn't spend more than 3 hours with it.

for me i dislike temtem so much i love the temtems but the combat is just awful couldnt get past the first gym or whatever it was

I always find it interesting how close we rate games until Nexomon: Extinction. The story was decent, but the mechanics are so incredibly boring that its just one of those games I'm happy to never revisit. Hopefully their next release is better, but I'll have to watch gameplay or play a demo before I buy it. I know they were just trying to make a game where every monster is usable, but it just made every monster the same and there were no interesting tactics to try. You just got the monster with the best stats and used their best move plus stamina restoring items. And while I appreciate having NPCs utilize multiple types of Nexomon and switch to more advantageous types, due to there not really being pivot moves or strategies like Pokemon's Flash Fire for surprising a switcher, it really just drags out the battle as every turn is one person attacking and one person switching out. Also, the HP are so low and the damage so high that I spent more time running back to the heal points than anything. Devs need to learn that just upping the damage of everything doesn't make a game harder. They need to implement unique and interesting abilities, making Nexomon feel unique (right now they are basically skins for stats as opposed to unique creatures with personality), and making the battle system less focused on attrition and more focused on strategy. As of Nexomon Extinction, I am putting Nexomon as the second worst of the legitimate monster taming franchises. I'd put them in the order of best to worst: SMT, Persona, Monster Hunter World, Pokemon, Siralim, Digimon, Ni No Kuni, Nexomon, and Monster Rancher.

Arceus sucked, i hate stealth games, so slow and boring

I wish Pokemon copied SMTs graphics and polish instead of cheaply copying Zelda. #Shamefreak

I hated nexomon so much because how all the nexomon literlally have basically the same stats.. i was like 15 hours in and all of my monsters had almost the exact same identical stats

I would have to swap Monster Sanctuary with Monster Hunter Stories 2 personally