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Twilight Monk

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2025

Should you play it?

Embark on a quest to recover the Three Rings of the Triskelion, as the last descendant of ancient Kung Fu warriors in Twilight Monk!. Experience a richly crafted Metroidvania, RPG, with intricately crafted dungeons, linked across a vast overworld spanning multiple continents.

What works

  • Beautiful hand-drawn art and animation
  • Engaging exploration and level design
  • Unique weapon mechanics with phantom pillar
  • Variety of collectibles and upgrades
  • Solid combat and boss fights

Things to keep in mind

  • Punishing save system with loss of progress on death
  • Lack of map markers and limited map functionality
  • No autosave or manual save outside save points
  • Some repetitive enemy encounters and backtracking
  • Unskippable cutscenes and limited control rebinding

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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Twilight Monk. These titles are not in What to play next.

Twilight Monk: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Status.

Last update: 27/08/2026