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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.
Overview
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 ·
Sales estimate
v1.0281K to 656K
units (median: 468K)
≈ $4.0M to $9.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| 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 $17.49Across 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.
Where to buy
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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.
Ecosystem
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.
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