Monster Train 2
BANGER · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99. Typically $18.74 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour
- $4.38/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 10,339
- Critics
- 87 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 5.7h
- To 100%
- 145.9h 25.6x the story
- Achievements
- 59
Price and sales
- Sales
- 12 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $17.49 June 2026
- Sale every
- 43d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 790 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
88% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 12 discounts in the 18 months tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Monster Train ($24.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Wildfrost ($11.99, scores 61).
More about Monster Train 2
Critics scored it 87. Players sit 8 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 707 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,176 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 957 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 377 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 146, 26 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 23 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Great game. A lot of the rogue like games are purely based on the meta-run strategy (deck building, pathing, etc.) but this game has really rich combats with so many choices. The restart turn and restart combat buttons are amazing features to let you explore the depth or butterfly effect of certain choices. Highly recommend, as good as Slay the Spire in terms of genre-defining titles.
1 more review
I was madly in love with the first Monster Train and was so excited when this entered early access so I could try out the new things. It's everything I hoped for and more. I love the new clans and cards and all of the combos to try. The replayability is through the roof and I'm still playing it. No spoilers here but there was a surprise waiting for me I wasn't expecting and it blew my mind. If you like card battlers...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 760 (2048 MB) Radeon R7 260X (2048 MB Intel UHD Graphics 630, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Monster Train 2 scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2742830/monster-train-2Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.