Temtem

temtem is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Crema and published by Humble Bumble. The game was initially released on January 21, 2020, through the Steam early access program and will be fully released outside early access on September 6, 2022. It was heavily inspired by the Pokémon franchise.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Catching temtems (the name of the monsters in the game) and raising them as virtual pets are just as fun as catching Pokémon.
 * 2) The game is designed to be played with others, allowing you to chat with other players online on the same map while allowing you to trade items and temtems, go on impromptu co-op adventures and battle each other.
 * 3) Much like Pokémon, there are 12 different elemental typings that temtems can have. These types have a rock-paper-scissors nature where types have advantages and weaknesses against specific other types.
 * 4) * For example, Water is strong against Fire, Fire is strong against Nature, and Nature is strong against Water.
 * 5) * Some temtems have two types at once, which further change the strengths and weaknesses.
 * 6) The game's world map is nice and unique and has lots of nice locations you can visit.
 * 7) * Each floating island is also inspired by different countries, with the starting island Deniz being inspired by the Mediterranean.
 * 8) There are 164 different temtems (as of Early Access 0.9.4) to choose from for your team, and you can use whichever ones you want. Different team compositions open lots of possibilities for strategies and combinations.
 * 9) The game's story mode takes you around 8 Dojos (the temtem equivalent of Pokémon Gyms) where you fight "boss battles" in the form of the Dojo Leaders while stopping a villain team known as Clan Belsoto.
 * 10) You have a rival in the form of your childhood friend/neighbour Max that frequently challenges you throughout the game.
 * 11) Wonderful and colourful graphics with fully animated character models for the humans and temtems
 * 12) You can interact with everyone in the game.
 * 13) There are healing stations called temporiums that allows you to heal your temtems in your current party in the HealTem Station, manage your temtems from the TemDeck Station and buy supplies from the temporium's shopkeeper.
 * 14) There are rare Luma temtems (the game's equivalent of shiny Pokémon) that can only be obtained through repeated catching and breeding of the same species.
 * 15) Every single temtem has its attacking animation to make things fresh. E.g. Crystle creates a glass knife and smashes it into its opponent when using Glass Blade and Tuwai unleashes an ear-piercing shriek to deafen its opponents when using Shrill Voice.
 * 16) Dojo Leaders are significantly more challenging than Pokémon Gym Leaders. All of them use smarter strategies and specialise in more than one Type, forcing players to level up different temtems to account for them.
 * 17) Catching wild temtems are fun as the temcards (the game's equivalent of Pokéballs) spin around the temtem slowly before increasing in speed to fully capture it.
 * 18) * Just like the Pokémon franchise, you must weaken a wild temtem enough so that you can capture it and if the temcard spins faster, it means the capture is becoming more successful.
 * 19) Every single temtem battles are 2v2, requiring players to properly strategize on how to defeat the enemies.
 * 20) Instead of a PP meter, all temtems have stamina meters that deplete slowly with every move, forcing players to properly strategize what moves to use for their temtems since temtems can and will hurt themselves from exhaustion if their stamina is fully depleted.
 * 21) Breeding temtems is a lot easier than breeding Pokémon as you need a shorter distance to walk to hatch a temtem.
 * 22) You can freely customize your character whenever you want at any time and anywhere.
 * 23) You can buy and customize houses to use as your island safehouse if the nearest temporium is too far away.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) For some reason, the game outside of battles is quite laggy even on the lowest graphics. Thankfully, Crema is working on fixing the issue.
 * 2) The game can get dark and terrifying at times and become unsafe for children due to it having explicit deaths and nightmarish moments, especially in the latter half of the campaign. An example of this is a Bolsato clansman kicking a temtem trainer off a cliff Sparta-style in a cutscene.

Trivia

 * It is one of the few games to have a pronoun option instead of a gender option to represent LGBTQ+ to the player and non-binary player.

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