How many copies has Monster Train 2 sold?

indielist estimates Monster Train 2 has sold between 280,962 and 655,578 units (median 468,270), derived from its 8,514 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Monster Train 2?

Monster Train 2 was developed by Shiny Shoe and published by Big Fan Games.

Who published Monster Train 2?

Monster Train 2 was published by Big Fan Games, developed by Shiny Shoe. See Big Fan Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Monster Train 2 released?

Monster Train 2 was released in 2025.

How many reviews does Monster Train 2 have on Steam?

Monster Train 2 has 8,514 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.

Is Monster Train 2 worth playing?

Steam players rate Monster Train 2 95% positive across 8,514 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Monster Train 2

May 21, 2025 Indie $24.99

Developer Shiny Shoe Publisher Big Fan Games

Profile updated May 2026

Monster Train 2 arrives in 2025 as a free-to-play indie title. It boasts a strong foundation, with its predecessor receiving 4,801 Steam reviews at 95% positive. This self-published sequel aims to build on that success.

Monster Train 2 is a 2025 Indie game developed by Shiny Shoe and published by Big Fan Games. On Steam it has gathered 8,514 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Shiny Shoe with publisher Big Fan Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 281,000 to 656,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Monster Train 2 can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

8,514

Positive

95%

Steam appid

2742830

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

1,501

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 13:10 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

281K to 656K

units (median: 468K)

≈ $4.0M to $9.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

281K median 656K

+ How is this calculated?

8,514 reviews × NB(55) = 468,270 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2025	-10
price_$25	+5
positive_95%	+10
final NB	55

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Monster Train 2 at roughly 281,000 to 656,000 copies, with a median around 468,000, derived from its 8,514 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.7M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

55 observed days · window low $17.49

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $17.49 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $17.49 on 2026-06-12.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Monster Train 2 sold?: indielist estimates Monster Train 2 has sold between 280,962 and 655,578 units (median 468,270), derived from its 8,514 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Monster Train 2?: Monster Train 2 was developed by Shiny Shoe and published by Big Fan Games.
Who published Monster Train 2?: Monster Train 2 was published by Big Fan Games, developed by Shiny Shoe. See Big Fan Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Monster Train 2 released?: Monster Train 2 was released in 2025.
How many reviews does Monster Train 2 have on Steam?: Monster Train 2 has 8,514 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is Monster Train 2 worth playing?: Steam players rate Monster Train 2 95% positive across 8,514 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Monster Train 2 can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Slay the Spire, Shogun Showdown, Balatro, Dicey Dungeons, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Shiny Shoe's other releases and Big Fan Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Monster Train 2 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Monster Train 2 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.