Battle Champion

Battle Champion is a monster-raising game for Android and PC with over 200 monsters to collect, raise, and battle.  It plays like a mobile game, but there's no monetization whatsoever, it's completely free-to-play.

Battle Champion features an active battle system where you choose your attacks in real time, giving it a very different feel from other monster raising games.  Different moves charge up at different rates, and some moves can even counter or avoid enemy attacks.  Monsters also vary a lot more than most games, with pretty much every monster having some kind of signature move or unique mechanic, but a major focus was trying to ensure that every Monster at the same evolutionary stage has roughly the same level of overall power, so you never have to feel like you're at a disadvantage for choosing your favourites.

Key features:

• Over 200 monsters and 450 attacks
  Discover the Monsters' unique mechanics and customize your team to conquer all opponents.
• Active Time battle system
  Adds a new dimension to monster battling.  Gain the edge in battle with quick decision-making.
• Extensive customization
  Fully customize your monsters' stats by feeding them candies, affecting what moves they learn and even how they evolve.
• Branching evolutions
  All monsters evolve twice, to one of two forms each time.
• Rotating events
  Weekly and monthly events rotate endlessly.  Nothing is missable or time-limited.
• Stage-specific battles
  Most battles require Monsters of a specific evolutionary stage, so early forms remain relevant throughout the game.
• Online multiplayer and crossplay
  Challenge opponents via IP address with rollback-style netcode.  PC and Android players can play together.
• Extensive help content
  Competitive analysis is provided for every monster in the game.
• Legitimately free to play with no catch
  No IAP, ads, or spyware whatsoever.  You don't need internet access to play (except for online battles) and it's very light on battery usage.  I wanted to create a game you could play on the go without some of the pitfalls that often come with mobile gaming.

Q/A: How do I install the game?

On PC, you just unzip the game to any folder and run Battle Champion.exe. On Android, you'll need to use whatever kind of package manager your phone has to install the APK file. Try googling your specific phone model plus APK if you don't know how to do this.

Are there any differences between the PC and Mobile versions?

They're completely identical. If you have the option, I would recommend the mobile version, since it was primarily designed for that platform, but you won't miss out on anything by playing on PC.

How do I play?

The game features a short tutorial at the beginning, but a ton of information can be found in the Tamer Help section, which is located in the Monster Office (the right building on the main menu).  You can also check out some of the videos on my youtube channel where I discuss the game.

I always lose!

1 vs 1 quick battles are inherently somewhat luck-based due to matchup dynamics, but getting a second attack of a different type will help a lot. When you get a third monster, you can do 3 vs 3 quick battles, which are more consistent since you can switch out of bad matchups. For daily and event battles, you'll need a monster with nearly maxed-out stats for its evolutionary level. When a monster has eaten all the candies it can eat before evolving, it'll be ready to take on these opponents.

How do I get more candy?

Early on, the daily challenge board and expeditions are the easiest sources of candy. Once you have a 30-candy monster, you can take on stage 1 daily battles and the weekly event to significantly boost your candy income. You'll want to hang on to a few maxed out monsters at each stage rather than evolving them so you can continue to win these battles.

I'm not getting any sound

It's not a glitch, the game just doesn't have any sound effects or music. I never have these turned on when I play games on my phone, so it wasn't a high priority when I was making the game. Maybe I'd consider adding some if the game became popular, but with it being a one-person project it was beyond my means at the time.

How do I play online?

Make sure that the host has port forwarding set up for the port that you're using if you're playing over the internet (this shouldn't be necessary if playing locally). Also, make sure that both the host and client are using the same port and that you have the same version of the game.

What do I do if I find a bug?

For now, you can just mention it in the comments section. I may eventually set up a discord server for the game if there's demand for it.