Temtem - A Beautiful Pokemon-Style Game - Is Coming Out For Early Access!

Back in July, we've announced you about a Pokemon-esque game that has exceeded its Kickstarter's goals by almost eight times - Temtem. It's a monster-collecting MMO from the indie developer Crema with stunningly beautiful visuals and interesting interaction between its creatures - the Temtem.

And as it has stayed in development progress for a while, it's time for the developer to give us some early looks. Temtem will launch for PC on Steam Early Access in January next year for any players interested. However, as we've mentioned earlier, Steam players will only be able to meet other Steam players, and Discord players will have to enjoy their own world.

But before getting into the details, here's the new trailer from the developer, showcasing its gameplay. You can watch it below:

The concept of Temtem

We've covered Temtem's story and key features through our last article, but here's the recap for you. Temtem takes the name after its titular collectible creatures in the vibrant fantasy world. To be more specific, the game takes the settings of Airborne Archipelago - the vast area consists of six floating islands with a wide range of species and biomes.

And with the appearance of Temtem - human's best friends, there's no child on this land growing up without dreaming of becoming a Temtem tamer. Temtem and humans live peacefully together on this archipelago, and people on six islands all share the love of this cute and friendly creatures.

However, the islands have more than just fun and peace - it also has the wicked plot of the Clan Belsoto. It's deploying its evil plan toward humans and Temtems to take control of the whole islands, and you can't let them be. In order to stop their plans, you'll have to defeat all of its eight Dojo Leaders, and become the legendary Temtem collector!

It's time to make your dream comes true with this extraordinary adventure!

Gameplay features

Last time, we only have several early images at how beautiful Temtem looks. Even though it has made 11,000 of pledgers, that's only several GIFs, and can't be more detailed than this gameplay trailer. To be more specific, Temtem is an MMO creature-collecting adventure game that takes inspiration from Pokemon, and you can find a lot of similarity between this one and the recently popular title Pokemon Sword And Shield.

In Temtem, you can enjoy both its story of becoming a legendary tamer or interact with other tamers. In detail, Temtem allows you to enjoy the wonderful Airborne Archipelago via two play modes - the story campaign and the online world. The story campaign mode is very simple, so let's head to the online world to see what's special.

There are a lot of things you can do with other Tamers: making friends (or foes), trading items, and work together for a mutual quest. Specifically, you can join other Temtem tamers, walking on your own way to become the best tamer on the islands. The competition is unavoidable, and you'll show off your Temtem training skills through intriguing skill- and strategy-based battles.

To be more specific, you can choose from 10 of your Temtems to fight with other tamers, but not all of them will join the match. In fact, you will take turns picking and banning the Temtems, and then choosing up to four to the battle. Each Temtem has its own elements, wielding certain advantages and disadvantages against others. You can see their interaction down here:

Supported platforms

Temtem will come out for Steam Early Access on January 21 but has stayed in Discord's alpha for a while. If your friends are playing the game via Discord, you won't be able to join him/her with this Steam version, and vice versa. Cross-platform support might come in the future, but there's currently no information on that.

At the same time, Temtem will launch for Humble Store as well, so you can choose whatever storefronts you want. Enjoy!