Hello PlayStation Blog reader! We’re thrilled to bring you the news today that A Monster’s Expedition, the award-winning, open-world puzzle game, is available for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 today. In a monster expedition you are playing the role of the title monster, exploring an archipelago museum. Cut down trees and solve puzzles to get from island to island, and explore the humorous museum of Human England created by Monsterkind, who simply vaguely understands humanity.
We’re excited to bring a Monster campaign to the PlayStation, especially after our warm welcome with the release of Bonfire Picks. The PlayStation Edition includes all the updates so far, including our Heavy Museum Expansion update and today’s New Hint update.
The hint update is designed to allow new players to come into the game with less stress and strain about getting stuck, and returning players are more easily able to achieve 100% completion. Players can access the settings menu to enable hints about where to go, how to solve each island, and even how to find friends, the most difficult-to-discover kind of privacy in the game. The hint system is fully customizable – turn on as much as you want or as little as you want and enjoy the game whatever works best for you.
Our goal with hints is that they will push you toward a solution or make sure you’re on the right track, without denying the “aha” moment of working out the details. We do this by showing you where to place the logs to get to the next island – seeing the last state is often enough to work backwards and make the rest easier. And for hidden friends, the biggest challenge is figuring out where to start – highlighting a few islands that are worth a second visit, and the rest is up to you.
And of course, after our successful and accepted integration of PS5 activity cards at Bonfire Pix, we knew we had to keep up with the trend with A Monster’s Expedition. Designing support for the feature in such an open world game was a challenging design effort, but we’re really excited about what we’ve finished. When playing the game for the first time, the activity cards take the form of progress guides – identifying key checkpoints and helping you on your way to the last credits. Once you hit the last credits of A Monster’s Expedition, there are still hours and hours left in the gameplay, and so we decided that upon completion, the activity cards would take the form of a completion checklist for 160 exhibits throughout the museum.
A combination of hint updates, which can help guide you to the exhibition by presenting guides on individual puzzles and point to undiscovered exhibit locations, with an activity card checklist functionality to show you how close you are to each region. Named after the gaming environment and the undiscovered exhibit, the PS5 version of A Monster’s Expedition has a wide set of approaches to offer the world a non-stop and frictionless post-game experience.
We hope you’ll enjoy your time with A Monster’s Expedition – it was a pleasure to create this game and it’s the culmination of over a decade of puzzle design skills. Please have fun and see why this game is critically loved, whether you are discovering it for the first time or replaying it after some time.
