Monolith Soft

Monolith Soft at a Glance

Monolith Soft is a Japanese developer founded in 1999 that has released 28 games exclusively as a creator rather than a publisher. The company began its work in 2002 and continues to release titles through 2025. Their catalog shows a strong preference for role-playing games with 25 entries, followed by 19 adventure games. They have also worked on turn-based strategy, strategy, tactical, visual novel, real-time strategy, and puzzle genres, though these make up a smaller portion of their total output. The studio targets Nintendo hardware heavily, having released seven games each for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Switch, along with four titles for the Wii U and Nintendo DS. Smaller numbers appear for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, web browser, and legacy mobile devices. The company has produced a steady stream of work across three decades. They released 13 games during the 2000s and 11 titles in the 2010s. Their output slowed in the current decade to just four games by 2025. This reduction does not seem to affect their quality metrics, as the average IGDB rating for 16 of their rated titles sits at 76.7 out of 100. The majority of their reviews are positive with eight great ratings and seven good ratings. They have no mixed or poor-rated games in their tracked data, except for one title that scored below 40. Their highest-rated works are consistently the Xenoblade Chronicles series. The original game from 2010 holds an 88.1 score, followed closely by the second entry at 87.6 and the third at 86.8. The Definitive Edition of the first game also scored high at 86.3. Earlier work like Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra from 2006 remains popular with an 86.1 rating. Recent releases include the 2025 version of Xenoblade Chronicles X, which maintains a strong 86.1 score. Monolith Soft started as a Namco subsidiary before becoming part of Nintendo in 2007 and established a second studio in 2011 to support their development efforts.

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