🌌 What is Tamer's Quest?

Tamer's Quest is a real-time, online multiplayer monster-taming extraction game. You drop into a procedurally-generated cave world with other tamers, capture wild monsters with spirit chains, fight, loot — and extract to bank what you earned before the storm closes in or a rival takes you down.

Every run is built from a fresh mix of biomes and monsters. Capture a team, grow stronger, spend your gold on permanent upgrades, and come back for the next round.

🚀 Getting started

• Play as guest — pick a nickname and jump straight in. Your guest progress lives on this device; you can claim it into a real account later.
• Log in — with Google, Discord, or a Tamer's Account to keep your progress across devices.
• Pick or create a character, then enter the lobby and start a run.

From the lobby you choose your spirit-chain loadout, browse the bestiary, shop, and base upgrades, then queue into the world.

🎮 Controls

⛓️ Spirit chains & capturing

Spirit chains are how you catch monsters. You bring a loadout of up to three chains into a run and hot-swap between them on the fly.

• Throwing is free. A thrown chain boomerangs back to you if it misses — so throw freely. You can only have one chain in flight at a time; wait for it to return.
• Hit a wild monster with a throw to start a capture encounter (combat).
• Charge for range. Hold the throw to fling the chain farther and faster — handy for distant or skittish monsters.
• Tiers & charges. Higher-tier chains capture tougher monsters. Each chain has a limited number of capture charges (its durability) that are spent when you actually catch a monster in battle — not when you throw.

⚔️ Combat

Battles are turn-based and resolved on the fly. When an encounter starts you and the wild monster trade turns until someone wins.

• Attack — pick one of your active monster's moves.
• Catch — throw your spirit chain at the wild monster to capture it. A successful catch spends one of that chain's charges and adds the monster to your team.
• Swap — bring in a different monster from your team.
• Flee — bail out of the fight and keep roaming.

🗺️ Exploring & extracting

Each run is a large cave world split into biomes, each with its own look and its own roster of monsters. Explore to reveal the map, find loot, and build your team.

Loot

Chests are scattered through the world (and show up on your minimap when you're close). Walk into one to open it and collect gold, chains, and items.

The closing storm

As the round goes on, a safe zone closes in. Stay inside it — being caught outside the safe zone chips away at your team's health.

Extracting

To bank a run's rewards, reach an extraction portal and leave. Extract while you're ahead: if you're defeated before you extract, you lose the team you brought into that run.

💰 Currencies & upgrades

Not pay-to-win: the upgrades that make you stronger are all earned with gold. Essence never buys an advantage.

Base upgrades & cosmetics

Spend gold on permanent base upgrades that carry across every run. Customize your tamer and chains with cosmetics — different body models and chain skins, purely for looks.

💡 Tips

• Throw freely — chains are free and boomerang back. There's no cost to missing.
• Hold the throw to reach far-off monsters; tap for quick, close throws.
• Bring a varied 3-chain loadout so you can match a chain's tier to the monster you find.
• Watch the safe zone and don't linger outside it.
• Extract to lock in your gains — a banked run beats a greedy one you lose.
• Spend gold on base upgrades between runs; they compound over time.