Monster Train 2 News

[p]Season’s Greetings, Monster Train 2 fans!
[/p][h3]The Steam Winter Sale is Here![/h3][h3][/h3][p]Get ready to get out of the cold and cozy up by the fire with a 20% discount off MT2! [/p][p][/p][p]Don’t miss your chance to grab your favorite roguelike deckbuilder! The sale runs from now through January 5. 2026 at 10:00 AM PT. 
[/p][p]Need a last minute gift for a friend or family member who needs a new obsession? Want to prepare for the next Community Challenge with your fellow players? Do you know someone who keeps saying they’d get Monster Train 2 on sale, but they never do?

If any of those rings true, now is the perfect opportunity to give them all MT2 or to grab the game yourself![/p][p]
Start browsing the sale now on our Steam store page. Thank you all so much for your incredible support this year, Happy Holidays, and see you in the New Year! 
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[h3]Monster Train 2 is now available on Mac! We’ve included all of the past year’s content updates too. Know a Mac gamer who needs a new obsession? Let them know (or treat yourself). Come on and board the train in our award winning deck builder.[/h3][p][/p][p]Release notes:[/p]

• [p]Requires Mac with Apple Silicon[/p]
• [p]Supports Steam Cloud saves, including transferring existing saves from Windows or Steam Deck[/p]
• [p]Players on Mac who transfer saves from Windows or Steam Deck may need to turn down Scroll Sensitivity in the Gameplay settings[/p]

[p][/p][p]Have any feedback? Let us know in the comments or in our Discord.[/p]

[p]Hello to all the MT2 Fans out there!
[/p][p]Since the launch of Monster Train 2, many of us at Shiny Shoe have had a chance to speak with you, our players. We’ve gotten boasts about the number of hours you’ve played, screenshots of the ultimate Cov 10 run, a new personal best Daily Challenge score, and some killer MT2 memes.
[/p][p]We’ve also received lovely stories that have meant a lot to us. Quick DMs on Discord about how you were playing Monster Train since the original game launched, your family has grown and now you play Monster Train 2 with one hand on the mouse and the other cradling your sleeping newborn. Longer messages about how you were experiencing health issues and you appreciated having a game to play for hours on end as you recuperated. And follow-up messages about how you’ve since gotten better! Messages that contained fan art, elaborate or short doodles but just as beautiful, which we love to share with one another. Each and every one of these messages we’ve loved, deeply, and are a huge part of why we love our jobs so much.
[/p][p]We greatly appreciate the love you send our way and hope we could get your vote in this year's Steam Awards. If you are someone like the players described, someone who has been touched by Monster Train 2, if our game has brought you joy, given you an experience you won’t forget, helped you make a new friend, or you even just thought was cool, please consider nominating Monster Train 2 for the Best Game on Steam Deck award for our work in ensuring that the game ran just as well on Valve’s portable gaming system as it does on PC. Since you can only nominate Monster Train 2 in a single category, we think Steam Deck best encompasses our overall work as a team. However, if you loved Jordan Chin’s music or Genevieve Bega’s character art, please consider nominating us for Best Soundtrack, Outstanding Visual Style, or even, maybe, Game of the Year!
[/p][p]A nomination from you, our players, would mean so much more to us as a team than just a vote. It would be a deep recognition of the sleepless nights, the endless passion everyone at Shiny Shoe has put into Monster Train 2. 
[/p][p]We hope you’ll consider us for Best Game on Steam Deck and, if you would like to vote for us, you can do so by visiting this page or by clicking the link above![/p][p]
[/p][p]Thank you again for being the most incredible community an indie dev team could ever hope for!
[/p][p]With deep gratitude, [/p][p]The Shiny Shoe team [/p][p]
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[p]Hey MT2 Fans,[/p][p][/p][p]As a special Thanksgiving-time thank you to our community, we are hosting an exciting Community Challenge![/p][p][/p][h3]Challenge Details[/h3]

• [p]When: The challenge begins today and runs through December 1st, 2025, at 12:00 PM PST. [/p]
• [p]How to Enter:[/p]
  1. [p]Join the challenge using this sharecode: LaunchedImprovedMidnight[/p]
  2. [p]Complete your run. [/p]
  3. [p]Submit a screenshot of your finished run, which must also display your username in the Shiny Shoe Discord server’s [c]#mt2-community-challenge[/c] channel. This is an important step as it will make it much easier for the team to contact you for your prize![/p]
• [p]Important Scoring Rule: Only your first run score will be accepted as your official score. While you may play as often as you like, only the first submission will count toward the challenge. [/p]

[p][/p][h3]The Prize[/h3][p]The top ten players will each win a special postcard-sized print of Monster Train 2 units signed by CEO Mark Cooke and Creative Director Andrew Krausnick! [/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Receiving Your Prize[/h3]

• [p]On December 1st, 2025 at 12:00 PM PST, we will review the scores and runs of the top ten players to ensure that there is no cheating. Afterwards, we will announce the winners![/p]
• [p]If you are one of the top ten winners, you will be contacted directly via a Discord DM with instructions on how to claim your prize.[/p]
• [p]Via this Discord DM, you will be asked for your preferred address for shipping the signed print. Your address will only be used for the purposes of sending your prize and will never, ever be used for any other purpose.[/p]
• [p]The challenge is open to both US and International players![/p]

[p]We hope you're excited and look forward to your submissions! Thank you for playing Monster Train 2!
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Update: The Community Challenge is now closed![/h3][p][/p][p]Thank you to everyone who participated in the MT2 Thanksgiving Community Challenge![/p][p]
The challenge officially closed today, December 1st, 2025, at 12:00 PM PST.[/p][p][/p][p]We are now reviewing all the scores of the top players to ensure that the scores are valid. In the next day or two, the top ten players who submitted their screenshot in the #mt2-community-challenge channel in the Shiny Shoe Discord server will be contacted directly via a Discord DM with instructions on how to claim your signed Monster Train 2 print.[/p][p]Thank you again for being an incredible community![/p]

[p]This update focuses on fixing bugs with the recent Echoes from the Void release. Here is the full list of changes:[/p]

1. [p]Fixed Influential mutator not loading character art correctly.[/p]
2. [p]Fixed card art not loaded when you obtain characters like Lunar Priestess when not playing Luna Coven who then creates a Moon Ritual card.[/p]
3. [p]Fixed card and character art not loaded with Our Powers Combined mutator in some cases.[/p]
4. [p]Fixed the first tier of Bolete Executioner's path missing text that described the Troop benefit.[/p]
5. [p]Fixed an issue where the Titan Trial "More Mass" variant of Fleshweaver had fewer stacks of Mass then intended. All Trial versions gain an additional 4 stacks of Mass, which is now correctly added to the additional 3 stacks that this variant gains, putting it at 12 stacks of Mass with the Trial enabled.[/p]
6. [p]Changed Fleshweaver's "Mass" status so that it is no longer removable via effects that remove Buffs.[/p]
7. [p]Fixed bug where killing Stryx or Hallow would sometimes give the other boss double status effects.[/p]
8. [p]Fixed bug where you could not Ascend Stryx or Hallow after the other is defeated.[/p]
9. [p]Fixed Crystallized Wing only working with Spell type cards. It now works with all card types.[/p]
10. [p]Made it so new Logbook statistic victory tracking doesn't count if the run had mutators enabled.[/p]
11. [p]Fixed unit abilities not going into cooldown when the unit has Purified Essence upgrade.[/p]
12. [p]Fixed Purified Essence not being properly applied when a unit card with Purified Essence is duplicated.[/p]
13. [p]Added new Dimensional Challenges to the number of challenges to complete in the Logbook progress page.[/p]
14. [p]Reduced the Covenant Rank on "Moving Madness" dimensional challenge from 3 >> 1.[/p]
15. [p]Fixed various champion stat tracking issues where gains to certain stats should only be tracked if they come from the champion's upgrades.[/p]