FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Doki Monsters: Quest on Switch: A Year of Free Updates Lands Today, With Under 24 Hours Left at 69% Off
The monster taming RPG's largest Switch update brings perma-death and difficulty modes, a rebuilt movement and battle system, in-PC monster data, and eleven new outfits - while the game sits at $3.99 until the eShop sale closes on September 16
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/KQKOb85L2XM
TOKYO - September 15, 2026 - Independent game developer Yanako RPGs is pleased to announce that Doki Monsters: Quest, its retro-inspired monster taming RPG, receives its largest Nintendo Switch update to date today - a single patch bringing the Switch version level with a full year of free updates already delivered on PC. The game is 69% off at $3.99 USD, down from $12.99, and under 24 hours remain: the eShop sale closes September 16 at 06:59 UTC, 11:59 PM Pacific on September 15.
Doki Monsters: Quest arrived on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 on November 27, 2025, published by RedDeer.Games, from a build locked for certification months before it went on sale. Everything solo developer Yano has shipped to PC in the year since arrives at once. Both headline additions came out of player feedback: three new game modes chosen when a save is created - monster perma-death, a six-monster roster cap, and a difficulty slider adding Normal and Hard - and a completely rebuilt movement system with optional move prediction, which glides the player around corners instead of stopping them dead at every wall.
Battles were rebuilt alongside it. Monsters blink when they take damage, targets hold still while you aim at them, move animations no longer drift out of position in double battles, and the game remembers which opponent each monster attacked last turn - so a long double battle can be played almost entirely on one button. Benched party monsters can now evolve mid-fight, several in a row, and any evolution can be cancelled. Also new to Switch: monster data readable straight from the PC box, a battle speed toggle that stays on, eleven new outfits, and a Japanese script rewritten from scratch.
The update lands in a busy month for the studio. Yami Kids, Yanako RPGs' dark monster tamer, is playable at Tokyo Game Show 2026 through September 21 and launches on Steam on September 22, and the sequel Dokimon Quest II is open for wishlisting. The PC version is also on Steam, with offline code-based trading and battling and the Great Fairy Island DLC.
"The Switch version has been stuck on a build from before most of this existed for a year," notes Yanako RPGs' Yano. "Everything PC players got free this year is on Switch in one go - the movement, the battles, perma-death, all of it. If you bounced off the first version because it felt clunky, this is the one to come back to."
Learn more: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/doki-monsters-quest-switch/
KEY FEATURES
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COLLECT 140+ original Dokimon across the Xelos region, in a roughly 20-hour story spanning 15+ towns plus caves, shrines, seas and mountains.
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PLAY three new ways with monster perma-death, a six-monster roster cap, and a difficulty slider offering Normal and Hard alongside the original release's single setting.
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MOVE freely with a rebuilt movement system and optional partner block and move prediction that glides you around corners instead of halting you at every wall.
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BATTLE with real feedback - monsters blink when hit, targets hold still while you aim, and double battles remember which opponent each of your monsters attacked last turn.
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EVOLVE benched party monsters in the middle of a battle, queue several at once, and cancel any of them if you are keeping a living dex.
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CUSTOMISE the experience with a rebuilt options menu, monster data readable from the PC box, a battle speed toggle, eleven new outfits and an optional HD font.
ABOUT YANAKO RPGS
Yanako RPGs is the studio of solo developer Yano, creator of MonMae, Dokimon Quest, and Notice Me, Leena-senpai. The studio continues to innovate with retro-styled RPGs and monster taming titles, including Yami Kids, releasing September 22, 2026, and the newly announced Dokimon Quest II.
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Developer Yano is available for interview.
Press kit: https://www.yanakorpgs.com/press
MEDIA CONTACT
yano, Yanako RPGs — yanakorpgs@gmail.com
TEL: +1 727 598 8685
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