I know there are additional challenges and that there’s some sort of “true ending” that they added with a DLC update, but I’ve reached the goal I was aiming for. For the last few rungs, I stuck with the faction combination that I was most consistently successful with (Melting Remnant and Awoken). I’ll probably go back and try some of the other combinations at higher levels, but not tonight.
Getting to this point resulted in Monster Train becoming my sixth most-played Steam game.
I played it after playing a bunch of slay the spire and I think I was just deck buildered out. I should thrown it on the steam deck though just like all those other games I’ll definitely get around to because they’re on the steam deck
Monster Train was pretty decent but I have to admit, the art style turned me off enough to drop it before I got all that far.
Maybe that makes me shallow but after several hours of watching this shiny red baby man tweening around like a 2001 flash cartoon, I thought, “why am I doing this?”
I kind of want to jump back in and give the game another shot though. I was hoping the sequel would fix the art style but it looks like more of the same.
game’s pretty good i think! it’s clicking for me more than 1 did. feels more focused on like stacking stats/buffs over the course of a fight in a vague mathy way that reminds me of tactical nexus.
also, i never occurred to me until recently that monster train is just turn-based tower defense. like the enemy units follow a path to your base, the units you summon are towers which you can apply various upgrades to, and when you leak units your base takes damage.
i installed dota 2 a few weeks ago to see if there were any good custom tower defense maps or any interesting custom games in the wake of autochess but the custom game platform has been completely overrun by like mobile gatcha bullshit because i guess it’s monetized now with a roblox style currency or something?? maybe it always was idk. glad i can uninstall dota 2 now that monster train is scratching that itch for me.
I didn’t do so well on my first run, despite having played the first game a lot. In part because I didn’t notice the buildings in the starting area and just went straight to the battle without triggering them.
Now I’m starting to remember some basic strategy, which still applies. I could do without the cutscenes, but I’m looking forward to seeing all the new factions.
And, as with the first game, seeing others I know ahead of me in the rankings is a great motivator.
I return to this thread, hat in hand, to say that I ended up playing a few runs of Monster Train 2 and… yeah, it’s pretty fun. I’m really not a fan of the aesthetics and writing, but I really like when my dragons barf bile all over enemies and collect golden pinecones.
