{"id":26572,"date":"2026-03-04T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26572"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:02:44","slug":"doki-monsters-quest-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/04\/doki-monsters-quest-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Doki Monsters: Quest (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I was in college and first starting to write game reviews for The Dallas Morning News, I went to my first E3 in 1997.\u00a0 At this show, Nintendo was gearing up to bring Pok\u00e9mon to the West, and I saw how they were going to market it and I knew it would be a big hit.\u00a0 I immediately called my editor and requested that I cover everything Pok\u00e9mon related.\u00a0 He was like, \u201cYeah sure, whatever.\u201d\u00a0 But he at least stayed true to his word and for a few years I was the resident Pok\u00e9mon expert at the newspaper and writing articles and covering events left and right.\u00a0 I like to say that Pok\u00e9mon helped pay my way through college.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t just Pok\u00e9mon I was covering.\u00a0 Any of the imitators that came out I was game for, too, which included Digimon, Monster Rancher, Dragon Warrior Monsters, etc.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what Doki Monsters: Quest reminds me of, one of those imitators.\u00a0 It plays so much like a classic Game Boy Color Pok\u00e9mon game that I\u2019m surprised Nintendo didn\u2019t sue.\u00a0 You know how they\u2019ve been lately.\u00a0 Anyway, this game is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The only main big difference between \u201cDokimon\u201d and Pok\u00e9mon is the story, which is a little darker here.\u00a0 You\u2019re not trying to be the best monster trainer in the world.\u00a0 A comet crashed and destroyed more than half the population, and also brought all sorts of new monsters to the world.\u00a0 Your job is to look for your missing friend, but you\u2019ll do so in the same way you do in Pok\u00e9mon.\u00a0 Instead of Poke Balls, you capture nearly 150 monsters with cards.\u00a0 You still travel a similar styled overworld and battle other monsters and trainers in one on one turn based battles with elemental weaknesses.\u00a0 Instead of Gym Leaders, you\u2019ll battle Guardians to progress.\u00a0 And you\u2019ll thwart an evil organization similar to Team Rocket called the \u201cX\u2019ers.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve ever played a Pok\u00e9mon game before, you\u2019ll be able to jump right into this one.\u00a0 If I had any problems with this game, it\u2019s that as a Game Boy Color imitator, it\u2019s a bit clunkier than more modern games, and slightly less polished than those old titles, too.\u00a0 But only just a little bit. The difficulty curve is slightly higher, too.\u00a0 So if you are itching to play a classic styled Pok\u00e9mon game but don\u2019t want to shell out big bucks for one, you might want to check this out.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Doki Monsters: Quest is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You battle monsters with animated attacks and they just fall down when defeated.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must, and if your kid is familiar with Pok\u00e9mon, they\u2019ll be just fine here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was in college and first starting to write game reviews for The Dallas Morning News, I went to my first E3 in 1997.\u00a0 At this show, Nintendo was gearing up to bring Pok\u00e9mon to the West, and I saw how they were going to market it and I knew it would be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26574,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572\/revisions\/26574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}