Vagabond Dog

Always Sometimes Monsters

Always Sometimes Monsters is a unique role-playing game set in the modern world. You take on the life of your character for 30 days as you try and make it from the east coast to the west coast before your one true love marries someone else. Along the way you'll face a myriad of choices that will alter the course of your journey and change the fate of your character. These decisions will affect the characters you encounter and the world around them, but few things are ever as binary as right and wrong. Your unique story will be shaped by your personal ethical compass, with none other like it.

Released: 21 May 2014
Developer: Vagabond Dog
Publisher: Devolver Digital
Engine: RPG Maker VX Ace
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric · Third person
Age rating: PEGI 18 · ESRB M
Controller: Full controller support
Metacritic: 73/100
Steam recommendations: 1,385
Platforms: PlayStation 4 · Linux · Android · PC (Microsoft Windows) · iOS · Mac · Nintendo Switch
Genres: Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Adventure · Indie
Estimated owners: 200,000–500,000 (est.)

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Player rating: 81
Critic rating: 30
Ratings counted: 74.8%
Steam reviews: 10
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Crossplay System requirements 512 MB RAM Download size 0.5 GB Steam Deck Playable Player counts 6

Always Sometimes Monsters

The story

Your pockets are empty. Your life is in shambles. You've ruined your career. You're being evicted. The love of your life is marrying someone else. With precious little time left you make a last-ditch effort to salvage your world. How far will you be willing to go to make things right again? What are you willing to sacrifice for one more chance at happiness? Who are you willing to hurt in the process? Who could judge you? In the end, aren't we always sometimes monsters?

Always Sometimes Monsters

How long to beat

Main + extras: 17 h
Completionist: 17 h

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Platforms

Game modes

Single player

Themes

Drama

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Reviews and languages

74.8% of 2,444 Steam reviews are positive. Valve labels that “Mostly Positive”.

1 languages in the interface, 1 of them with full voice acting. English is supported, with full voice acting.

Publisher's content notice

This game is a dramatic experience about the harsh realities living in a capitalistic society, and the contents of the game reflect the violence and prejudice inherent to modern life within such a system.

Always Sometimes Monsters