Monster Train

The game has a vertical field, a train with 4 floors, with a pyre on the top floor. The enemies will try to reach the pyre to destroy it, and the player must protect it to achieve victory. 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.

According to review aggregator website Metacritic, Monster Train received "generally favorable reviews". Dan Stapleton of 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. 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.

The game was nominated to IGN Best of 2020 list, in the category of Best Strategy/Tactics Game for the year 2020, which was ultimately awarded to Crusader Kings III. During the 24th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Monster Train for "Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year", which was ultimately awarded to Microsoft Flight Simulator.