Monster Train Reviews

This game is worth the full price. If you are thinking of buying it on sale JUST STOP THINKING AND DO IT.

beat in under an hour. very easy to get broken builds.

Amazing game, very addictive. It always makes me want to play one more round and then realize it's morning already. XD

Fun roguelite deck building game, definitely worth on sale. Dont think i would pay like 25, but at 5 or less,definitly. It's like a mobile game from ads if the mobile game was actually good n not pure bait. Mechanics are fun,there's enough classes for replay it. Mod is also worth it, but the difficulty power creeps a bit too steeply, rough without mods.

fun game with simple mechanics but deceptively hard

It is short the endgame is stupid. The RNG is balanced in the beginning but by the end the tolerances are just too narrow for the sheer amount of variance. Good effort, bad results.

150 hours and maxed achievements should tell you how amazing this title is. A must buy if you enjoy crunching numbers and being strategic while trying to make OP combos.

I would say based upon my total hours, that I enjoyed this game quite a bit. The sequel is coming, and enough is similar that you could easily use the original to bide your time. The DLC is definitely worth it as well. The difficulty can get decent if your luck is faulty like my own. The ability to mix and match clans, and the alternate heroes all make for an addition level of enjoyment, and there are plenty of play styles and cards to mess around with. All aboard!

This is one of those games where you'll either play 20 hours of it and never think about it again or you'll play hundreds of hours and it will never leave your recently played queue. It is endlessly replayable. Every time you load up a game it feels different and you will have to adapt your deck building strategy on the fly. It is a text book example of not judging a book by it's cover because there is a depth of gameplay hiding behind its simple facade that is breathtaking.

Monster Train is a deck-building game. It's following in the footsteps of other great games like Slay the Spire. As a result, I will be comparing this game to Slay the Spire a lot. In Monster Train, you defend a train full of (you guessed it) monsters. You fight a series of battles, with each battle involving a bunch of minor enemies followed by a major (boss) enemy. In-between battles you do some deck construction using various stations. One run takes about 60 to 90 minutes. I've gotten 85 hours of fun out of this game. THE GOOD: - Monster Train is a really fun card battler. - The train level mechanic, where you have 4 different levels in your train, adds a lot of strategic depth and novelty. - You can always refuse a new card or artifact, something I always wished I could do in Slay the Spire—which would force me to take cards I didn't want and then make it really hard to get rid of them. - It's also easier to remove cards you don't want, often allowing you to craft the deck you want by the endgame. - The game lets you know who the major bosses are at the very start of the run. This allows you to build your deck accordingly. - Great variety of enemies, cards, and special abilities. - Great learning curve, as new concepts are gradually introduced so you don't have to drink from a firehose of knowledge. - Nice graphics and music. THE BAD: - There is no real story to the game. There's kind of the veneer of a story, but it doesn't really explain why you need to do multiple runs. - Even with the better control over your deck than other games in the genre, you are still at the mercy of the random number generator. It can be frustrating to lose because you never found the cards you needed, or because of a terrible draw for an otherwise great deck. - The game developers claim this game is a roguelike, but it's not really. You play to unlock new features, which is a good tutorial mechanic, but to be a roguelike the game should require you to learn by failing. I won on my second attempt. THE UGLY: - In this game the protagonists are the demons of Hell, and you actually fight against Heavenly angels. This doesn't bother me, but you might find it offensive. - When using a mouse and dragging a card to play it, if you linger the game can automatically scroll up to a level above. This is a great way to ruin your battle by playing the card on the wrong level! - The game enables you to ramp up the difficulty with a feature called the Covenant. This is ostensibly a good thing that gives the game some extra life and challenge. Unfortunately, in trying to find a variety of ways to increase the difficulty the game designer has mainly made the game more annoying. They add lots of junk cards to your deck and make it harder to remove those cards. Hence, rather than ending with a bang, the game kind of fizzled out with a whimper as I got increasingly frustrated and quit.