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Monster Train returns with all new clans, new enemy factions, new challenges, new modes and more! Defend your Pyre in the classic three-tiered, vertical gameplay that made the original roguelike deckbuilder a hit.
Monster Train 2 is a strategy, card game and rogue-like game
developed by Shiny Shoe
and published by Big Fan Games.
Released on May 21st 2025 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 3,664 reviews of which 3,505 were positive and 159 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 14.67€ on Gamivo.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 x64 Bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K / AMD FX-4350
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 760 (2048 MB) Radeon R7 260X (2048 MB Intel UHD Graphics 630
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Low Quality setting, in 1080p, producing 60 FPS
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I am hesitantly *optimistic* about the game. I mean hey, I bought it sight unseen day of. I have 700+ hours in Monster Train. If Monster Train 2 is more of the same, then I am sold. I AM sold. I bought it. However . . . NEGATIVE: 1. The camera is MUCH more zoomed in this time around. Your perspective is locked to a single floor of the train. In Monster Train one it was easy to see all floors of the train at once. Now you need to scroll wheel up and down to get the same view. 2. The art style is much more self-serious. Everyone looks like that anime meme where they've come out of the closet wearing too many belts. At a minimum, character silhouettes are extremely busy compared to the clean aesthetic of the first game. To go with the more self-serious art is a self-serious story. 3. I'm undecided on whether flipping the trains direction from top-to-bottom to now bottom-to-top of the screen is a trivial difference and I'm just a fuddyduddy who can't accept change or something that's genuinely annoying. 4. The overall balance seems whack. This will hopefully get hammered out in time but certain clans are just flat out better than others. Spawn and Propogate are maybe the worst offenders of things that are just so good they dwarfs other options. Also, because not all clans have clan specific rooms / equipment - playing those clans feels like riding a bike with a missing wheel. It just feels like a obvious oversight at the moment not to have rooms or equipment for those clans. They aren't being compensated in some other way. POSITIVE: 1. New ways to influence the train are a natural evolution of the form. Equipment cards. Room cards. All good stuff. 2. The new options at the shop are all welcome additions. 3. Activated unit abilities? Cool. 4. An undo button? Neato. 5. A more diverse starting lineup of train stewards? What a nice QoL feature. NEUTRAL: 1. The iconography is debatably more legible? Each individual icon is more readable but there are many more icons with more busy graphics. It's a bit of a race for the galaxy problem. At a glance I have no idea if I'm looking at INCANT or RESOLVE or TRIGGER or STRIKE or . . . so yeah the icon is pretty but it's still a really messy visual. 2. The deployment phase is a bit of a mixed bag. While it's nice to spend my first turn laying out my train the the way I want from a pool of resources that doesn't subtract from my normal supply - it also means **you deploy blind**. You don't really have any clue if the setup you're laying out actually matches with the threat you're about to face. Maybe this is something that's softened with more experience and just memorizing enemy waves but I've definitely been burnt laying out my dudes just to have the enemies appear in a formation that if had I known I would have never setup that way. You also can't "undo" your formation as ending the deployment phase ends the turn. ------------------------- And that's generally my take so far. The good is all obvious stuff thats just more of the same. More and different options at the shop? GREAT! More and different factions? GREAT! Customizable pyres? GREAT! I'm just also kinda disappointed by the zoomed in camera and change in art style.
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Monster Train 2 is my new favourite deckbuilder but this comes to no surprise because Monster Train 1 was my favourite before this. I have over 600 hours in the first game and I can see myself putting the same amount of time in here. Monster Train 2 is set directly after the last game. After Seraph was defeated by the player he retreats back to Heaven and makes a deal with three tians, powerful beings from beyond this world. The titans corrupt the forces of heaven and turn them into horrible monsters. Now hell is fighting to free heaven from the titans grasp and put an end to the conflict once and for all. The gameplay of MT2 is very close to the first game but with some meaningful differences. During combat there is now a new deployment phase which allows you to place your banner units in your train before the actual combat starts. This makes it easier to set up your strategy without relying on draw luck. Another new addition are room and equipment cards. Equipment can be placed on a unit to give it better stats and new abilities while room cards to the same but for an entire floor. You can only equip one of those per unit or floor, so the player has to mke some strategic decisions depending on his build. Personally I love these new additions because they complement the natural abilities of your cards. Some units also now have active abilities that you can manually launch whenever you need them. There are also smaller changes that make the game much more comfortable to play. Shops now have four upgrades instead of three and you can now restart a single turn or even the entire battle if you made a mistake. Even the small change of changing the train stewards, the starting units, to be split into tanking units and damage dealers makes sense because now players can decide which unit to ditch first depending on their first banner draft. Just like MT1 you have five very unique clans to play as. The devs made sure these clans feels fresh with new mechanics that have meaningful synergies. The Banished are a clan of exiled Angels that decided to ally themselves with hell to free heaven. Their unique mechanic is Vigor which increases attack damage but also has the unique interaction to give armor if the unit is on the frontline. They complement this by having many spells and abilities that put their units on the front to benefit from both bonuses of vigor. The Pyreborn are stereotypical greedy dragons. They can generate gold from direct attacks or create a dragon hoard that the player can loot between battles. bigger hoards do not only yield more gold but also artifacts including those you can normally only get from bosses. They also have the unique mechanic of pyregel which increases all damage a unit receives, including spells, attacks, debuffs and even artifacts. The Luna Coven is a magic focused clan that has access to conduit, a mechanic that increases the power of damaging and healing spells. They also create armor on overheals. But their most unique mechanic is the moon. Depending on the moon phase, their units and spells get different bonuses with the full moon being more spell focused while the new moon is more focused on raw stats. Underlegion is my favourite clan because they have one of the best emchanics ever, propagate. Propagate increases buffs on your units and debuffs on enemies and this works with any status effect including hard to increase ones like damage shield. It also works perfectly with their own unique status effects, decay and troop. Decay is a damage debuff similiar to frostbite from the first game but much more potent. Troop on the other hand is a very unqiue unit mechanic in which you create a special "funguy" unit from spells which is stacked on top of each other, creating a powerful unit made from multiple small ones. Lazarus League is the last clan and they can be best described as "Frankenstein" faction. Their leader is a crazy scientist who conducts unethical experiments, creating horrible monstrosities which are supported by expendable assistants. Their unique mechanics are unstable and reanimate. Unstable creates a debuff that explodes if a unit falls under its stack value and deals damage to its value. This can create chain reactions in which multiple units explode at the same turn and you can even use it on your own units. Reanimate on the other hand revives a dead unit but only with a single HP. But this status effect can be stacked, which means you can tank multiple hits without actually dying. Besides new clans you also can now select your pyre heart. This gives your pyre room different starting stats but also new abilities you can use. It's anew mechanic that allows players to get even more creative with their builds. What makes MT2 so much fun is that this game embraces overpowered builds. The game will always tell you after a run what your best stats where and will encourage you to go even higher on your next run. Games like Balatro have proven that "numbers go big" is a satisfying gameplay loop and Monster Train nails this perfectly. The game also features an amazing soundtrack from Jordan Chin, this time more intense than the last game, fitting for a game in which the stakes are now higher. But there is also something that really cements why this game is so great but since this is a heavy gameplay spoiler I suggest you to only read further if you don't mind to be spoiled. After you have unlocked half of the pyre hearts you get a cutscene that unlocks all the clans fromt he first game. That's right, the devs are so crazy, they put the entirety of MT1 in MT2! Not only that, they also rebalanced all those clans so they fit better into the new environment of MT2, making even some of the worse cards finally playable. This gives the player 180 different clan combinations how he can play the game. Absolute madlads that deserve all my praise!
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This game is basically a straight improvement on Monster Train 1, and Monster Train 1 was already a top 3 best roguelike deck builder game out there.
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This game is amazing in various ways, but I just want to highlight one non-gameplay thing: when you right-click (inspect) a card, the game tells you the name of the artist who designed the card art. The game also tells you who designed some of the random events when you encounter them. What a wonderful thing to do, that feels like it should become a standard feature in every card game. I, at least, really appreciate it.
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The worst thing I can say about this game is that someone decided that the series was missing a gripping story narrative with dad problems, feelings of inadequacy about your brother, and cringe-worthy jokes. The writing and story-telling here would be enough to make a JRPG blush with embarrassment. Fortunately, it is done in 20 second power-point presentations between runs and you can quickly recover and try to forget what happened to you. If you can ignore that, this should be pretty simple decision-making for you. Did you enjoy the first Monster Train and are you nostalgic for fresh factions, cards, and keywords? You didn't play the first Monster Train? Why? What are you doing with your life? It is fantastic. If you haven't played the first one, you don't need to go back, you can start here and not miss anything. They stay very true to the old formula and make only modest changes to the overall form of the game. Very modest. Most of what they've done is really good on the quality of life and the content available is quite expansive. There are up to 10 covenant levels to challenge yourself with, 21 challenges, and *Spoiler* They surprisingly brought all of the decks and heroes from the old game in as well. You can get up to 90 different deck combinations, 180 if you consider that there are 2 champs per deck. Pretty insane. . Hold your nose through the story-telling, stay for the great deck building.
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Monster Train 2 is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
Monster Train 2 is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.
Monster Train 2 received 3,505 positive votes out of a total of 3,664 achieving an impressive rating of 9.18.
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Monster Train 2 was developed by Shiny Shoe and published by Big Fan Games.
Monster Train 2 is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Monster Train 2 is not playable on MacOS.
Monster Train 2 is not playable on Linux.
Monster Train 2 is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Monster Train 2. Explore additional content available for Monster Train 2 on Steam.
Monster Train 2 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Monster Train 2 does not support Steam Remote Play.
Monster Train 2 is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Shiny Shoe
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Big Fan Games
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21 May 2025
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