About
Chainmonsters is a massively multiplayer monster catching RPG set on the beautiful Ancora continent. What started as a blockchain exclusive collectible game has evolved into an immersive MMO with players from around the world competing against each other to be number one.
GIF OF BASE GAMEPLAY (!)
Ancora is divided into eight regions. Each one proves a unique challenge as weather effects, special organizations and of course your friends and foes from the continuous Online-World will be there to either support or damage your cause.
**Ancora** is diverse archipelago where humans and creatures referred to as "**Chainmons**" used to live together in peace and harmony. However in recent years these unique creatures became aggressive to an extent where normal human beings are no longer allowed to leave cities and villages across the isles without explicit permission from **Nuovo Industries**.
As members of their recently launched training program, you have access to **advanced technology** and can roam the world relatively independently. Your goal is to research these Chainmons and find out where that recent aggression comes from.
The world is massive and there are hundreds of new r**ecruits** assigned the same goal. Even though the task is for the greater good, there is a natural competition in the Nuovo organization to climb ranks so not everyone you encounter will be friendly...
There are 121 unique creatures to be caught, each with their own set of special abilities.Massive MultiplayerJoin forces with a group of friends and explore the continent together!
Use advanced power crystals to catch wild Chainmons, increase your rank inside the Nuovo organization by competing against other recruits and unlock special skills and technology to travel across the world.
Squads - As part of a Squad, players can be beamed to each other to reduce travel time so that everyone gets right into action!
Massive Online Experience - The game world runs on dedicated game servers that allow thousands of players to battle, explore and interact together in one huge open world. The game dynamically scales the number of players in your area depending on traffic while reserving space specifically for your friends. This way we have a great mix of a believable online multiplayer world while maintaining the beauty and vividness of story relevant missions.
True Crosss-Platform experience being available from day 1(!) on PC/Mac and mobile (with consoles following). We believe that you should be able to have the same great experience no matter what device or platform you are gaming on - assemble your team on the phone in the Metro in the morning, compete against a friend on their console in the afternoon, and do some ranked play on your PC in the evening. Everything is connected.
**Competitive Play** - The turn-based battles allow you to play competitively on any platform without restrictions. Ranked games are based on our matchmaking algorithms that we will heavily test and scale throughout ongoing development and beyond.
In **tournaments**, you have access to all Chainmonsters without restrictions (TBD) and their level is set to 100. Adjust your mons abilities and special powers dyamically to get an edge over your opponents!
**Foe System** - You want to personalize the story campaign? Select one of your friends to be your foe throughout the campaign for another challenge! You both will encounter each other independently in the main quests and need to solve conflicts through synchronized decisions on each end. Your foe will be an exact replication of your friend's current visual appearance, selected squad and powerlevel at time of this encounter. We refer to this feature as "co-optional" as your decision will definitively impact your foe for the better or worse...
**Dynamic Day/Night Cycle** - Depending on the local time you will encounter some Chainmons only during a specific time of the day.
**Dynamic Weather** - Various elements decide about the current weather situation in Ancora. Some areas are always snowy, others might be influenced by strange anomalies... Either way, the current weather situation greatly modifies your Chainmon's abilities in battle. A strong rain will increase the effect of all water based abilities for example.
**Quests** - In addition to a streamlined story campaign there are daily, weekly and monthly challenges to be completed either by you or together with other players.
Completing these optional events unlocks more customization for your characters, house or playstyle including emotes.
**Crystallized Forms** - Each Chainmon can exist in a special crystallized form that changes their appearance. This happens in extremely rare cases during encounters or even breeding.
**Collection** - Catch every single Chainmon to fulfill your goal and unlock a special quest-line.
**Late Game** - After completing the main story you can continue to climb the ranks in competitive gaming modes as well as gather in larger groups and participate in special events. After 1.0 launch we will continue with events, quests and content updates both small and big on a regular basis.
**Furious Five** - Every week the best players in the world are assembled to act as the new Furious Five - the legends each player has to defeat before entering the hall of champions, pretty much a very late stage area of the game. Players who obtain this role will be able to access a special channel inside our Discord to discuss tactics and provide the ultimate challenge for everyone else!
**Raids** - As a real MMO we are putting a lot of focus on community events and one of these examples are public Raids. Join together with hundreds of other players to defeat epic bosses!
**Customization** - Your player is your avatar. Design it any way you like using a huge range of cosmetic items. Looking for a change? Unlock even more items by progressing the story and participate in events to claim exclusive visual rewards!
Make the battles feel extra special: Emotes, animations and taunts can be unlocked and customized
**Follower** - Choose one of your favourite Chainmons and let it follow you around for everyone to see.
**Mounts/Transportaion** - There are various ways of transportation including ridable mounts, vehicles and global fast transportation systems.
**Housing** - Eventually you will find yourself an apartment inside Nuovo Industries HQ. This is a huge complex and located right at the beach. The higher your ranking inside the organization, the better your suite!
You will unlock more and more customization based on your progress in the story and participation in events.
**Abilities** - Every few levels your Chainmons will learn new abilities. Although only four abilities can be active at any time, you can dynamically change your Chainmon’s powers outside of battle allowing you to surprise your next opponent!
**Global** **Commmunity** **Quests** - Special global quests and events will pop up that requires you to join forces with your friends and foes to tackle enemies on a global scale. These special events require a percentage of the community to achieve certain tasks. If you succeed, everyone unlocks rewards. Progress achieved together will impact the following events drastically.
**Blockchain Integration** - The world of Chainmonsters might run on traditional high-performant and scalable servers but the Chainmons, items and unlockable things in-game are distributed on a dezentralized system called "blockchain" or "ledger". This enables you to really own your progress and trade basically everything you want outside the game with other players. You do not need to have any knowledge of this new and exciting technology! We are offering a solution that enables you to play this game on any platform without having to deal with any of the complicated stuff and claim your achievements and inventory whenever you want.
As part of our development cycle, console releases are 100% planned and will come eventually. We are registered developers for Playstation and Xbox already and are taking care of Switch at the moment as well. However, console releases take quite a bit of extra time, so for that reason the Alpha and Early Access will launch on PC/OSX and mobile only.
Console versions are currently scheduled to arrive in May 2021.
GIF OF BASE GAMEPLAY (!)
Ancora is divided into eight regions. Each one proves a unique challenge as weather effects, special organizations and of course your friends and foes from the continuous Online-World will be there to either support or damage your cause.
**Ancora** is diverse archipelago where humans and creatures referred to as "**Chainmons**" used to live together in peace and harmony. However in recent years these unique creatures became aggressive to an extent where normal human beings are no longer allowed to leave cities and villages across the isles without explicit permission from **Nuovo Industries**.
As members of their recently launched training program, you have access to **advanced technology** and can roam the world relatively independently. Your goal is to research these Chainmons and find out where that recent aggression comes from.
The world is massive and there are hundreds of new r**ecruits** assigned the same goal. Even though the task is for the greater good, there is a natural competition in the Nuovo organization to climb ranks so not everyone you encounter will be friendly...
There are 121 unique creatures to be caught, each with their own set of special abilities.Massive MultiplayerJoin forces with a group of friends and explore the continent together!
Use advanced power crystals to catch wild Chainmons, increase your rank inside the Nuovo organization by competing against other recruits and unlock special skills and technology to travel across the world.
Squads - As part of a Squad, players can be beamed to each other to reduce travel time so that everyone gets right into action!
Massive Online Experience - The game world runs on dedicated game servers that allow thousands of players to battle, explore and interact together in one huge open world. The game dynamically scales the number of players in your area depending on traffic while reserving space specifically for your friends. This way we have a great mix of a believable online multiplayer world while maintaining the beauty and vividness of story relevant missions.
True Crosss-Platform experience being available from day 1(!) on PC/Mac and mobile (with consoles following). We believe that you should be able to have the same great experience no matter what device or platform you are gaming on - assemble your team on the phone in the Metro in the morning, compete against a friend on their console in the afternoon, and do some ranked play on your PC in the evening. Everything is connected.
**Competitive Play** - The turn-based battles allow you to play competitively on any platform without restrictions. Ranked games are based on our matchmaking algorithms that we will heavily test and scale throughout ongoing development and beyond.
In **tournaments**, you have access to all Chainmonsters without restrictions (TBD) and their level is set to 100. Adjust your mons abilities and special powers dyamically to get an edge over your opponents!
**Foe System** - You want to personalize the story campaign? Select one of your friends to be your foe throughout the campaign for another challenge! You both will encounter each other independently in the main quests and need to solve conflicts through synchronized decisions on each end. Your foe will be an exact replication of your friend's current visual appearance, selected squad and powerlevel at time of this encounter. We refer to this feature as "co-optional" as your decision will definitively impact your foe for the better or worse...
**Dynamic Day/Night Cycle** - Depending on the local time you will encounter some Chainmons only during a specific time of the day.
**Dynamic Weather** - Various elements decide about the current weather situation in Ancora. Some areas are always snowy, others might be influenced by strange anomalies... Either way, the current weather situation greatly modifies your Chainmon's abilities in battle. A strong rain will increase the effect of all water based abilities for example.
**Quests** - In addition to a streamlined story campaign there are daily, weekly and monthly challenges to be completed either by you or together with other players.
Completing these optional events unlocks more customization for your characters, house or playstyle including emotes.
**Crystallized Forms** - Each Chainmon can exist in a special crystallized form that changes their appearance. This happens in extremely rare cases during encounters or even breeding.
**Collection** - Catch every single Chainmon to fulfill your goal and unlock a special quest-line.
**Late Game** - After completing the main story you can continue to climb the ranks in competitive gaming modes as well as gather in larger groups and participate in special events. After 1.0 launch we will continue with events, quests and content updates both small and big on a regular basis.
**Furious Five** - Every week the best players in the world are assembled to act as the new Furious Five - the legends each player has to defeat before entering the hall of champions, pretty much a very late stage area of the game. Players who obtain this role will be able to access a special channel inside our Discord to discuss tactics and provide the ultimate challenge for everyone else!
**Raids** - As a real MMO we are putting a lot of focus on community events and one of these examples are public Raids. Join together with hundreds of other players to defeat epic bosses!
**Customization** - Your player is your avatar. Design it any way you like using a huge range of cosmetic items. Looking for a change? Unlock even more items by progressing the story and participate in events to claim exclusive visual rewards!
Make the battles feel extra special: Emotes, animations and taunts can be unlocked and customized
**Follower** - Choose one of your favourite Chainmons and let it follow you around for everyone to see.
**Mounts/Transportaion** - There are various ways of transportation including ridable mounts, vehicles and global fast transportation systems.
**Housing** - Eventually you will find yourself an apartment inside Nuovo Industries HQ. This is a huge complex and located right at the beach. The higher your ranking inside the organization, the better your suite!
You will unlock more and more customization based on your progress in the story and participation in events.
**Abilities** - Every few levels your Chainmons will learn new abilities. Although only four abilities can be active at any time, you can dynamically change your Chainmon’s powers outside of battle allowing you to surprise your next opponent!
**Global** **Commmunity** **Quests** - Special global quests and events will pop up that requires you to join forces with your friends and foes to tackle enemies on a global scale. These special events require a percentage of the community to achieve certain tasks. If you succeed, everyone unlocks rewards. Progress achieved together will impact the following events drastically.
**Blockchain Integration** - The world of Chainmonsters might run on traditional high-performant and scalable servers but the Chainmons, items and unlockable things in-game are distributed on a dezentralized system called "blockchain" or "ledger". This enables you to really own your progress and trade basically everything you want outside the game with other players. You do not need to have any knowledge of this new and exciting technology! We are offering a solution that enables you to play this game on any platform without having to deal with any of the complicated stuff and claim your achievements and inventory whenever you want.
As part of our development cycle, console releases are 100% planned and will come eventually. We are registered developers for Playstation and Xbox already and are taking care of Switch at the moment as well. However, console releases take quite a bit of extra time, so for that reason the Alpha and Early Access will launch on PC/OSX and mobile only.
Console versions are currently scheduled to arrive in May 2021.