Meg's Monster

Meg's Monster Review: An Ogre Who Cannot Lose, a Girl Who Must Not Cry

Ninety-Nine Thousand HP and a Toddler to Pacify

The twist is in the numbers: Roy, a hulking ogre of the Underworld who has no interest in eating humans, starts with 99,999 HP and is untouchable, so combat is never about his survival — it is about Meg, the lost girl he and his friend Golan find, whose wailing turns the sky red and shakes the earth. Each battle is a mini-game of keeping her calm with her favourite toys while Roy handles the monster, and the quest is to get her home before the apocalypse she carries goes off; defeated enemies can be befriended in side quests. Odencat — the Tokyo studio behind Bear's Restaurant — draws it in pixel art that makes monsters cute, and the App Store reviews are a wall of tears: a May 23, 2026 five-star cried three times, a June 6 review found a lore-drenched game with two endings. Comparisons run to To the Moon and Undertale. Released May 7, 2026, in 14 languages, rated 13+ and Everyone 10+.

Simple by Design — and, for One Reviewer, Eighty-Five Per Cent Waiting

Nobody claims the game is hard. A June 30 Play five-star with four votes finished it in an afternoon, calls the combat very simple and generally impossible to fail until the last sequence, and wishes for a fuller RPG on the same premise; a June 28 review with six votes says the fight mechanics and small puzzles were fun but the story is why you stay. The dissent is a September 13 Play three-star: battles are barely in the game, 85 per cent is waiting, black screens with no sign the game is running, taps that do not skip to the dialogue, levelling that means nothing. A May 28 App Store one-star liked everything but the movement and wants a joystick option. Version 1.0.14 on Android improved stability in August; the iOS build, 1.0.6, fixed a gallery crash. Ratings: 4.9 from 184 on the App Store, 4.8 from 1,050 on Play with 10,000-plus installs.

Free With Voluntary Ads, $2.49 to Remove Them, $7.49 for Everything

The economy is Odencat's usual and reviewers describe it as painless: the game is free with ad breaks that a June 30 reviewer calls minimal and all voluntary, and the App Store lists Remove Ads at $2.49, a Prequel chapter Lost Memories at $4.49, a Final Chapter: Ending Rewrite at $3.99, a Complete Pack at $7.49 that bundles them, and Support tiers from Bronze at $1.99 to Platinum at $19.99 that are tips rather than content; Google Play's range is $1.99 to $19.99. A June 27 reviewer's advice is to buy ad-free because the story is too good to interrupt. Apple's tracking list is Location, Identifiers and Usage Data not linked to you; Google's data-safety card lists Location, App activity and two other types collected. The install is 190 MB on iOS 13 or newer, Android 8.0 or newer. Prices are regional.