My Singing Monsters

My Singing Monsters
Logo for the first My Singing Monsters game
GenreMusic video game
DeveloperBig Blue Bubble
PublisherEnad Global 7
Platforms
Original release
List
    • My Singing Monsters
      • WW: September 4, 2012
    • My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire
      • WW: September 23, 2015
    • My Singing Monsters: Composer
      • WW: April 25, 2018
    • My Singing Monsters: Playground
      • WW: November 9, 2021
    • My Singing Monsters: Thumpies
      • WW: March 6, 2024
First releaseMy Singing Monsters
September 4, 2012 (September 4, 2012)
Latest releaseMy Singing Monsters: Thumpies
March 5, 2024

My Singing Monsters is a 2012 Canadian video game franchise developed by Big Blue Bubble.[1] The first game of the series was published and released with the help of Canada Media Fund (CMF) on September 4, 2012, for Apple iOS.[1] Ports of the game for other operating systems were later released, including versions for Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble Nook, Steam,[2] and PlayStation Vita.[3] Since its release, My Singing Monsters has grown into a multimedia franchise, with a prequel, several spin-off games, books, live events, series and a board game. On May 12, 2021, Big Blue Bubble announced that the series would be releasing its first console title, My Singing Monsters: Playground, on November 9, 2021.[4]

My Singing Monsters

My Singing Monsters gameplay - A player at level 20. Pre-2.0 interface.
A gameplay of My Singing Monsters, featuring a variety of monsters with different musical roles (Pre-2.0.0 graphics).

In My Singing Monsters, players collect and breed many different types of anthropomorphic Monsters, each of which has a unique musical line that is either sung or played on an instrument. Several Monsters sing in nonsensical gibberish such as the Mammott (bum), Fwog (wow), and Toe Jammer (doo). Some sing fractured or short lines in English (such as the PomPom (hey) and (come on let's go), Shugabush (yeah), and Hoola (yippity yay), and others play real-world or fictional instruments (such as the Quibble (piano), Bowgart (cello), Shellbeat (drums), Strombonin (trombone), Zynth (analog synthesizer), and Incisaur (vibraslap)). There are also special Monsters known as "Werdos" that sing actual lyrics (the Parlsona, Tawkerr, Stoowarb, Maggpi and Charkoll), as well as the Ethereal Quint, BeMeebEth, Brump, and for the most part bbli$zard and T-Pirainha.

Most Monsters have "Rare" and "Epic" variants, both only available during specific timeframes. Rare Monsters can be bought either from the Starshop with Starpower or the "Monsters" section of the Market with Diamonds, or they can be bred with the same breeding combination as the Commons, and Epics have unique breeding combinations and are more difficult to obtain. Besides the variants of the Wubbox, all Rare and Epic monsters have the same sound and design as their Common counterpart. As of Version 4.4.0, Mirror Islands do not use the same song as their normal island, such as Mirror Psychic Island having a different song as Psychic Island.[5] As of Version 4.7.0, a series of hand-shaped islands called The Ethereal Islets allows the player to "sacrifice" a monster into a structure known as the Dish Harmonizer, which can produce two monsters, usually doubles, when Dish-Harmonization is complete.[6]

Monster Choir

The game servers themselves had shut down sometime in late 2020. Although downloaded applications (or "apks") can still be found on the internet, they can no longer connect to game servers, rendering it unplayable.[7]

My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire

Like the main game, Dawn of Fire has seasonal events and Seasonal Monsters which are only available for certain times of the year; these being Spooktacle Junior, Festival of Yay Junior, Season of Love Junior, Eggs-Travaganza Junior and SummerSong Junior. Mythicals are present in the game, but can only be bred for a limited time.[8] Dawn of Fire also introduced Prismatics, which are only available during certain events, and can be created by sending a Monster through the Prism Gate. Prismatics serve as the prequel's equivalent of Rare and Epic Monsters from the original game.[9]

Other games

My Singing Monsters: Composer

My Singing Monsters: Composer serves as an app for composing custom songs using some, but not all, Monsters from the franchise. The player can edit the Monsters' sounds by placing their notes onto a grid, all while changing the key and tempo. This game also features Rare Instrumental Monsters, Dipsters,[10]

My Singing Monsters: The Board Game

My Singing Monsters: The Board Game is a board game based on the My Singing Monsters franchise. The board game was supported by Kickstarter from June 1 to 21 2021 and was designed by Sen-Foong Lim and Jay Cormier. There are two versions of the game; the Standard Edition, which includes all of the core components, and the Deluxe Edition, which includes nine painted Monster mini-figures, upgraded components, and an exclusive expansion that features the Werdo Monsters. The board game is a worker placement game, in which the player breeds Monsters to produce more coins than other players, and more board pieces (taking the form of in-game islands) can be added to increase the length and strategy of the game.[11]

Teaching Guide Grade 1-3: My Singing Monsters

In 2018, Big Blue Bubble released an educational guide aimed towards elementary school children; Teaching Guide Grade 1-3: My Singing Monsters, which is intended to teach lessons about music using characters and concepts from the franchise.[12]

My Singing Monsters: Thumpies

My Singing Monsters: Thumpies is a 2024 remastered remake of the 2010 game Thumpies. The game is a rhythm game, requiring the player to tap various objects in time to the bouncing Thumpie characters on-screen, to fill the Thump-o-Meter and achieve three stars. The game had a hard launch on Android and iOS devices on March 5, 2024, costing $4.99.[13]

Discontinued games

Furcorn's Jelly Dreams / Jammer Splash!

Furcorn's Jelly Dreams was a puzzle game featuring characters from the franchise, and was discontinued in 2017. This eventually was remade into Jammer Splash!, which featured Toe Jammer, and was also discontinued as well.[14]

My Singing Monsters: Coloring Book

My Singing Monsters: Coloring Book was a digital coloring book by Big Blue Bubble themed around My Singing Monsters. The app was first released on December 15, 2016 on Android and iOS devices. It was discontinued on January 24, 2025.[15]

Other discontinued games

Several other games from the franchise have also been discontinued, including My Mammott, My PomPom, Fling a Thing!, and My Singing Monsters: Official Guide.[7]

Notable collaborations

My Muppets Show features five stages which were the game's version of islands, each with their own songs, and Muppets were obtained by "digitizing" them with a machine called HARV-E. The game was discontinued and had its servers shut down on January 9, 2015.[16]

In July 2013, Big Blue Bubble announced that they had collaborated with artist Kristian Bush from American country music duo Sugarland to create a new set of Monsters, the Shugafam along with a new island called "Shugabush Island".[17][18]

In October 2013, Big Blue Bubble signed a deal with publishing house Egmont UK as its new strategic licensing partner.[19]

In July 2017, Big Blue Bubble announced that Wind Sun Sky Entertainment would adapt its mobile game My Singing Monsters into a multi-media franchise, beginning with an animated TV series and consumer products program. Skybound Entertainment would be the distributor in all territories worldwide, excluding Canada. While a series of figurines and plush toys were released in 2019, the series itself was cancelled shortly later after struggling to establish a proper plot.[20]

In February 2026, version 5.3.0 was released, adding Autotuna, a monster designed after rapper T-Pain, as a guide to the newly added Clubbox feature.[21] The monster species was later revealed to be officially named T-Pirainha in version 5.4.0, receiving its own Clubbox act called "Waveform", alongside releasing on Water Island.

Reception

Kotaku described the original My Singing Monsters as a "clever combination of music and monster breeding", praising how the complexity of a song can become developed by the utility of breeding monsters, each monster revealing a new line to the song.[1][22] However, Kotaku was "a bit disappointed" with the level of complexity added in Dawn of Fire, reporting that the new feeding system hinders progress towards the whole concept of unveiling the "musical nirvana".[23]

Gamezebo and 148Apps stated that they enjoyed the music in My Singing Monsters, but expressed dissatisfaction with the connection issues present at the game's release.[24][25]

The game won the People's Voice Award for "Best Music/Sound Design" at the 2020 Webby Awards. 10 diamonds were rewarded to all players who logged in that week.[26][27]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Mike Fahey (October 15, 2012). "A Delightfully Melodic Take on the Monster Breeding Game Genre". Kotaku. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ "My Singing Monsters on Steam". store.steampowered.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2021. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  3. ↑ "My Singing Monsters Out Today". PlayStation.Blog. August 12, 2014. Archived from the original on May 13, 2021. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
  4. ↑ Craddock, Ryan. "My Singing Monsters Playground Launches This November, And Switch Is Getting A Physical Version". NintendoLife. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  5. ↑ "My Singing Monsters - Apps on Google Play". Google Play Store. January 20, 2022. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
  6. ↑ "My Singing Monsters 4.7.0 APK Download by Big Blue Bubble Inc". APKMirror. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  7. 1 2 "History". Archived from the original on April 15, 2021. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  8. ↑ "My Singing Monsters Dawn of Fire Update 3.2.0". Big Blue Bubble. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  9. ↑ "My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire Update 2.0.0". Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  10. ↑ Dipsters: "The muffled monster music from above gives Dipsters the courage to rise and join the harmonious melody! ... although it may only be one note at a time."
  11. ↑ "My Singing Monsters: The Board Game". Archived from the original on April 29, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  12. ↑ "Big Blue Bubble: Education". Archived from the original on April 29, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  13. ↑ "Thumpies". Big Blue Bubble. Archived from the original on March 7, 2024. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
  14. ↑ "Dreaming of Jammer Splash!". Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  15. ↑ "A message from the Monster-Handlers about My Singing Monsters: Coloring Book". YouTube. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  16. ↑ Hennes, Joe (December 10, 2014). "It's Curtains for the My Muppets Show App". ToughPigs. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 14, 2021.
  17. ↑ "Monster Monday: Kristian collaborates with My Singing Monsters to create the Shugabush". KristianBush.com. July 29, 2013. Archived from the original on August 5, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  18. ↑ "Sugarland's Kristian Bush dons green monster suit". USA Today. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved December 26, 2015.
  19. ↑ "My Singing Monsters enters publishing with Egmont UK". licensing.biz. November 25, 2013. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  20. ↑ "'My Singing Monsters' Heads to TV". licenseglobal.com. July 19, 2017. Archived from the original on April 14, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  21. ↑ "My Singing Monsters adding T-Pain with new 'Clubbox' concert space". pixelkin.org. February 20, 2026. Archived from the original on August 17, 2026. Retrieved August 17, 2026.
  22. ↑ Hamilton, Kirk (October 19, 2012). "I Love My Monsters, And Hope They Never Stop Singing". Kotaku. Archived from the original on May 7, 2023. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  23. ↑ "They Made A Sequel To My Singing Monsters. Tell My Kids I Love Them". Kotaku. October 1, 2015. Archived from the original on April 20, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  24. ↑ "My Singing Monsters Review". 184Apps. September 14, 2012. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
  25. ↑ "My Singing Monsters Review". Gamezebo. September 10, 2012. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  26. ↑ "NEW Webby Gallery + Index". NEW Webby Gallery + Index. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  27. ↑ "People's Voice Winner - My Singing Monsters". Webby Award. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
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