The more I look at monster collecting games the more I'm surprised that with the success of the pokemon IP there are so few games with monster collecting.
Regardless of my personal taste the games that
Ascheroth listed plus the ones I mentioned don't look like a lot of games while there are lot of similar games to story of seasons and stardew valley that keep popping up, all of them seem to be decent and seem to have their own quirks too!
Admittely I guess it's a lot of effort to create like 100+ monsters within a rock-paper-scissors system and with different abilities each so I guess that's what holding back that type of games
edit: on a different note, my interest in the pathfinder games skyrocketd as I found out that I can have a character with a pet I'm still not sure what I'll play once I decide to get past the char creator bossfight but I'll certainly play those games sooner rather than later now
Classes with animal companions/pet/whatever are my favourites, even in WOW I always liked hunter and warlock classes the most.