Loomian Legacy is a creature-capture game made in Roblox by Llama Train Studios with their development team. It is a turn-based game with adventure features, issued July 20th 2019, after announcement around six months earlier January 19th. The figures alone show its popularity: players entered almost 896 millions of times, what is truly huge.

The history about the origin of this game is quite interesting. Pokémon Brick Bronze was closed because of copyright problems, when Nintendo sent a DMCA takedown notice. Instead of simply giving up, the creators of Brick Bronze decided to do something new, thus Loomian Legacy developed.

Loomian Legacy: A Roblox Creature-Catching Game

Although it obviously draws from Pokémon, the team rewrote and changed many things. What pushes this project, is that in Roblox there lacked a good Pokémon-like experience, and Loomian Legacy filled that hole. Moreover the developers could use their prior work, what surely helped them move more quickly.

Veils of Shadow are the first game in the wider Loomian Legacy, and until now it stays the only one available. One can play it entirely free, although the development still lasts. The story is not fully ended yet…

More will come, because the team still builds it.

The Loomians are the imagined creatures, that you meet during the game, and all of them are quite distinct from one another. Every kind brings its own set of skills and strengths. Coaches seize those Loomians, bond with them, and use them in fights.

For instance Broncotta: it is Fiery and Tera type, that first appeared in Veils of Shadow. It evolves from Terracolt, when it reaches Level 27.

The game keeps the mood fresh by means of seasonal events scattered through the year. One event brings Terracolt in the wild through Roria, together with a special variant for Lunar New Year, that you can seize only during that limited period. Other allows you to enter Jolly Village, face the maze challenge of Cool Woods, or hunt time-limited Loomian forms by means of the roam menu.

There is also a Wiki of Loomian Legacy, that works as the main source for almost everything the game offers. It carefully explains Loomian stats, evolution chains, combat tactics, places to find creatures, item lists and game mechanics. The community can contribute and improve it, and it carries also game guides and strategic tips.

Official updates come directly from the Llama Train Studios Discord and Twitter, where the team shares news about upcoming places, new Loomians and game changes.

Roblox itself is quite an interesting platform too develop on. Learning entirely new coding languages would eat much more development time than staying inside Roblox, hence the team did not change direction. If you search for an independent Pokémon-alternative on Steam, one commonly mentions Temtem.

Although, honestly, it is quitecostly.