Monster Train

 PC
User Score
8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 78 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 78
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 78
  3. Negative: 6 out of 78

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  1. Pixelwarrior
    Jul 13, 2023
    0
    Coming from Slay the Spire, I was really feeling like a similar game and I quite found it with Monster train. Nice concept, nice monsters, and a good replay value with the different races.
    I was just slighlty disapointed by the very low number of bosses that makes every run feel the same and some races like Umbra that are nice to play but a bit of a one trick pony.
  2. whathefaq
    Jul 23, 2022
    1
    this game is worse than Slay the spire in everyway possible
    - excessive animations
    - not well balanced - quite poorly optimized - too many animation - wonky animation - everything looks the same with the background - non transparency. You have no idea what card is discarded and what card is gone forever, unlike Slay the spire - again, unbalanced, none rewarding. Instead of killing    this game is worse than Slay the spire in everyway possible
    - excessive animations
    - not well balanced
    - quite poorly optimized
    - too many animation
    - wonky animation
    - everything looks the same with the background
    - non transparency. You have no idea what card is discarded and what card is gone forever, unlike Slay the spire
    - again, unbalanced, none rewarding. Instead of killing some bosses for big reward you just randomly get some broken relic and upgrade by doing absolutely nothing
    - victory and defeat feel the fukcing same, there's no sense of achievement

    In short its bad, its not fun    … Expand

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19
#19 Best PC Game of 2020

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Metascore
86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. IGN
    Dec 17, 2020
    90
    Do you like Slay The Spire? If so, you should absolutely try Monster Train's more tactical spin on the deck-building roguelike, which literally layers on new ideas and has every bit as much depth and variety.
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  2. KeenGamer
    Sep 15, 2020
    90
    If there was any concept that the card battler genre had completely tapped out with Slay The Spire, Monster Train proves that assumption wrong. Combining scaling difficulty, combo troops and cards, and an amazing amount of replayability under the hood, this is a game that can easily devour hours of your time pursuing "just one more run."
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  3. DarkZero
    Jul 27, 2020
    80
    I’ve found it hard to recommend deck builders recently because I’ve either thought they were clones of other games, not all that exciting or they have too much going on, however, in Monster Train they have managed to balance replayability and creativity. If you’re a fan of deck builders or are new to the genre, I feel comfortable saying you will love Shiny Shoe’s unique take. It brought back my love for deck builders, has a soundtrack that you will be humming daily, and a creative art style. It’s definitely, in my opinion, well deserving of the overwhelmingly positive review scores it has received on Steam.
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