What you can do is limited to your imagination, your hand, and your mana pool. You have access to various spells, train upgrades, monsters, and even a power clan-specific (more on those later) Champion. You also draw five (or more) cards that contain all the things you can do on your turn. The game is split into turns, and each turn new enemies spawn on your train, each with their own unique abilities, formations, and all that jazz. If the enemy destroys the Pyre, it’s game over. Floors can hold a certain number of monsters represented by little golden pips, and enemies (typically) spawn on the bottom floor and move up the train towards the inaccessible fourth floor – the Pyre. In Monster Train you are presented with 3 floors in which to duke it out. That’s it, but that “IT” is very compelling. You are either picking where you are going on the bilinear map screen and engaging in whatever your path chooses OR, you are engaged in battle with the forces of Heaven. Gameplay in Monster Train has you doing, as a general rule, two things. Thankfully, Monster Train is much more than its fancy setting and steam-powered chugging. Angels, demons, monsters, sentient wax people, and trains – it all makes for quite the setting, even if it’s all surface level. A backdrop to give the game a bit of thematic flair. Little to no time is spent on the story in Monster Train, and as is the genre staple, it is simply a means to an end. Narrative “depth” comes from where the train is going, and who is assailing your demonic locomotive. Monster Train can be summed up almost entirely by its title – you are in control of a train, and it has monsters. Whilst on the surface Monster Train could be mistaken for a slay-the-spire-like, that initial belief and dismissal would result in you missing out on the best Roguelike to come out all year, and the best Deck Building in the last four. Along comes Monster Train by Shiny Shoe and suddenly, everything changed. Naturally, all these pretenders have failed. Ever since Slay the Spire landed to critical and public acclaim way back in 2017, the Deckbuilding Roguelikes have flocked to copy its formula and emulate its success.
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