Monster Train: First Class
Monster Train brings a new strategic layer to roguelike deckbuilding, with a tactical twist: defend not one, but three vertical battlegrounds simultaneously as you fight to protect the final pyre against the…
Monster Train: First Class is a strategy, released 19 August 2021 on Nintendo Switch.
What Monster Train: First Class is
Monster Train: First Class was released in 2021. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Monster Train brings a new strategic layer to roguelike deckbuilding, with a tactical twist: defend not one, but three vertical battlegrounds simultaneously as you fight to protect the final pyre against the forces of heaven. No playthrough is ever the same, it’s a fresh challenge every time. You’ll never play the same deck twice! Hell has frozen over. Only you can protect the final burning pyre from the forces of heaven and restore the inferno. To take back hell, you’ll need to power up. Choose your route carefully, different locations yield different benefits. Upgrade your champion, gain Pact Shards and their benefits, recruit powerful units, upgrade cards, gain passive bonuses, or…
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Monster Train: First Class holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Monster Train: First Class launched on 19 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and Black Book. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, Black Book.
Cheats and codes
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