Current Events > How's Monster Train? Card builder on Steam

(+) Yeah! (+)

It's on sale. I really enjoy card building games like Slay The Spire

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It's also on Gamepass if you have that.

It's a lot of fun, but very different from Slay the Spire. The basic mechanics are you have your unit cards and spell cards and 3 floors of the train. On your turn you place your unit cards on the floors on the train (enemies always start at the bottom and go upwards) and maybe cast some spells. Hit end turn and the units will auto attack the enemies on their floor for 1 turn. When the turn is over, the enemies move up 1 floor, your units stay on their floor. It's kind of like a tower defense game where you setup your units and the enemy slowly makes their way to the goal.

There are only 8 battles in a run (around 45 minutes per run), but between each fight you can change a lot of stuff in your deck, but your deck can never get huge like in StS. But there is a ton of variety in that there are 5 clans (think the 4 classes in StS) with 2 heroes each, each with a different starting set of cards and their own unique mechanics. Then after you pick your primary clan and hero, you pick a secondary clan and hero, all coming with their own cards and you can get cards from both clans card pools. In StS terms, it's like if you were to mix an ironclad with a defect and get a mix of both their card pools. So with 2 heroes per clan, 5 clans, and you pick 2 of them, that's 40 combinations of your basic deck and gameplay strategies.

I wouldn't say one replaces the other, they're both very different games and I'll play a run of both of them occasionally.

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