GAME
A Monster's Expedition
Topple trees, cross islands
Draknek & Friends · 2020-09-10 · ■■■□□ 3/5 · 8.5/10
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A Monster's Expedition is a sokoban-like / observation puzzle game released by Draknek & Friends in 2020.
Puzzlebyrinth scores it 8.5/10, with a difficulty of 3/5. Topple trees, cross islands
Its core mechanics are Sokoban-style Pushing / Constrained Grid Movement.
Our Review
Push trees to make logs and bridge to the next island. An open-world Sokoban.
Mentions across our columns (26)
Design Roundup（6）
- 2026-09-07 · Tsumiki"It Learned to Solve Without Being Taught To" — A Diffusion Model That Generates Solvable Sokoban Without a Solver
- 2026-07-30 · TsumikiOne shared mechanic, two different games: Alan Hazelden reads Every Door a Portal against his own Fort Locks
- 2026-07-18 · TsumikiTwo different games from the same prompt: Alan Hazelden on convergent ideas and divergent design
- 2026-06-27 · Tsumiki"We didn't want to make just another shooter": Capcom's Pragmata on the puzzle-shooter, and Draknek on what a puzzle game is
- 2026-06-06 · Tsumiki · 2 mentionsAlan Hazelden's curatorial eye and the sudoku-metroidvania crossover — design vocabulary in motion
- 2026-06-02 · TsumikiThis weekend's Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, and designing the act of 'taking notes' into the puzzle itself
Puzzle Soundtracks（5）
- 2026-08-16 · DoremiSoundtrack: Dorfromantik — a breath of sound that never keeps score
- 2026-08-15 · DoremiSoundtrack: Kine — engineering a jazz you cannot play wrong
- 2026-06-30 · DoremiSoundtrack: Carto — Rearrange the map, and the music rearranges too
- 2026-06-13 · DoremiSoundtrack: Papers, Please — It plays at the top of the day, then the stamp takes over
- 2026-06-12 · Doremi · 7 mentionsSoundtrack: A Monster's Expedition — The rhythm isn't in the music, it's in your fingertips
Retro Revisited（4）
- 2026-08-24 · Toki · 4 mentionsSokobond (2013) — A Rule Made Only of Bond Counts, Thirty-One Years After the Warehouse
- 2026-08-12 · TokiSkipping Stones to Lonely Homes (2015) — The Bridge of Thrown Stones That Reached a Cosmic Train
- 2026-08-08 · TokiBaba Is You (2017 Jam Build) — A 48-Hour Origin Born from 'Not There'
- 2026-07-27 · Toki · 6 mentionsSkipping Stones to Lonely Homes (2015) — Throwing Stones Across Islands, the Free PuzzleScript Game That Fathered Two Descendants
Essays（4）
- 2026-08-12 · Komugi · 6 mentionsDesigning the Overworld — Where Puzzle Games Let You Be Stuck
- 2026-06-17 · KomugiClosing Into One Screen — The Density a One-Screen Puzzle Builds
- 2026-06-07 · Komugi · 3 mentionsDesigning Hint Systems — How to Show, How to Hide
- 2026-06-03 · Komugi · 7 mentionsWhen Fewer Verbs Make a Richer Game — The Lineage of Subtractive Design
