Cody Peterson, from Screen Rant, wrote 'Monster Train is an enjoyable deck building roguelike game that manages to reinvent both genres with some interesting new game mechanics', giving the game a 4 out of 5 star rating. Dan Stapleton, from IGN, wrote that the game is 'a ticket to dozens – if not hundreds – of hours of challenging and surprising roguelike deckbuilding runs, thanks in large part to its mechanically diverse set of decks and the way they interact with each other when combined in different ways', and in his verdict, scored the game 9/10.

The game received positive reviews, reaching 86 points on Metacritic. For this, the player will use several cards that can summon monsters or activate special effects to defeat the invaders, but the player can only summon their creatures in the train's first three floors. The enemies will try to reach the pyre to destroy it, and the player must protect it to achieve victory. The game has a vertical field, a train with 4 floors, with a pyre on the top floor. The game received positive reviews, being nominated to the Game Awards 2020, in the category Best Strategy/Tactics Games of 2020 A Complete Edition of the game titled Monster Train First Class was released for Nintendo Switch on August 19, 2021.

It was released on on Steam and was later released for Xbox One on Decemand for iOS on October 27, 2022. Monster Train is a roguelike deck-building video game, developed by American studio Shiny Shoe.

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