Monster Train 2
BANGER · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 5.7h
- Value
- $4.38/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 85% over the last 30 days against 95% all-time.
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $17.49. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 11 in the 16 months tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Monster Train ($24.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Wildfrost ($19.99, scores 61).
Critics scored it 87. Players sit 8 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Players rate it 95 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 85 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 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 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 268 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.
The drop-off
88% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
6,617 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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.
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...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Monster Train 2 scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2742830/monster-train-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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