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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 9,712 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 320,000 to 748,000 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
9,712
Positive
95%
Steam appid
2742830
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0320K to 748K
units (median: 534K)
≈ $4.6M to $10.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Monster Train 2 at roughly 320,000 to 748,000 copies, with a median around 534,000, derived from its 9,712 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.6M 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
90d · low $14.50Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $14.50 to $24.99, averaging $23.57 across 1 discount window, with a historical low of $14.50 on 2026-05-06.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
StrategyCard GameRogue-likeTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsDemonsFantasyTrainsSingleplayerPvPMultiplayerDeckbuildingColorfulChoices MatterIndieDifficultMagicProcedural GenerationReplay ValueRoguelike Deckbuilder
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Monster Train 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Monster Train 2 has sold between 320,496 and 747,824 units (median 534,160), derived from its 9,712 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- 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 9,712 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Monster Train 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Monster Train 2 has sold between 320,496 and 747,824 units (median 534,160), derived from its 9,712 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- 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 9,712 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Monster Train 2 can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Terraria, Garry's Mod, Phasmophobia, No Man's Sky, 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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