History VideoGame / MonsterTrain

* BigRedDevil: The Hellhorned faction, composed of fairly standard red demons and imps and specialized in brute force.

''Monster Train'' is a {{Roguelike}} DeckBuildingGame developed by Shiny Shoe and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. It was released for PC on May 21, 2020.

* CosmeticAward: Clearing a run with a card in your deck will give it a permanent gold frame, which has no tangible benefit. Clearing a run at maximum Covenant (difficulty) adds a crown to the faction combination in the logbook. Clearing Challenge runs, available after clearing the maximum Covenant once, unlocks new frames to replace the gold ones. Finally, as of "The Last Remenant" DownloadableContent, defeating the titular boss adds the faction combination to a new logbook page, as well as adds a stamp to the cards in the deck.

* CosmeticAward: Clearing a run with a card in your deck will give it a permanent gold frame, which has no tangible benefit. Clearing a run at maximum Covenant (difficulty) adds a crown to the faction combination in the logbook. And clearing Challenge runs, available after clearing the maximum Covenant once, unlocks new frames to replace the gold ones.

** The Awoken and Umbra are Powerhouse. Their units are resilient with good stats, plentiful healing, and a tendency to grow stronger over time. However, individually they have their own weaknesses- Awoken are very tanky without much in the way of offense, and thus require some kind of assistance on that front or be eventually overrun. The Umbra, meanwhile, are a BuildingSteam faction, and thus rely heavily on setting up their Morsels to buff up their stats.

* TheGhost: Herzal, of the titular Hoard that leaves Artifacts scattered all over, who built the Train and forged Hell's half of the Covenant, and who writes every note in the Logbook. [[spoiler: One of the Cavern events is implied to take place at his frozen corpse.]][[spoiler: The Last Divinity DLC contains more info about his past: before he came to Hell, he was one of the Judges, beings tasked with judging right or wrong in the world. It is implied he got fed of it and had a hand in attack against Divinities, which he regretted so much that [[LaserGuidedAmnesia he had his memories of that time removed]].]]

* EternalRecurrence: Starting with the Friends and Foes update, several characters make mentions of cycles of the hellish forces fighting the armies of heaven for eternity.

* TheGhost: Herzal, of the titular Hoard that leaves Artifacts scattered all over, who built the Train and forged Hell's half of the Covenant, and who writes every note in the Logbook. [[spoiler: One of the Cavern events is implied to take place at his frozen corpse.]]

* MisbegottenMultiplayerMode: There is a multiplayer option, but rather than letting people play together, it lets you send the seed value of a run to others and see if they can beat your score.

** The Awoken and Umbra are Powerhouse. Their units are resilient with good stats, plentiful healing, and a tendency to grow stronger over time.
** The Hellhorned are Cannons. They have massive offensive potential but rely on one-shot armor production for defense.
** The Stygian Guard are Subversive, using damage over time and debuffs coupled with a heavy emphasis on spellcasting.
** The Melting Remnant are The Horde, relying on ZergRush tactics and the unique ability to recover dead units before the end of a battle.

* WeHaveReserves: The Melting Remnant and the Umbra both operate on the assumption that you'll be throwing fodder units away with abandon. For the Remnant, their Reform keyword will bring them back for another go, while the Umbra power up their large units by feeding them morsels.

* TheGhost: Herzal, of the titular Hoard that leaves Artifacts scattered all over, who built the Train and forged Hell's half of the Covenant, who writes every note in the Logbook and who is presumably leading the whole mission despite never being seen in normal gameplay.

* ResurrectionDeathLoop: The Melting Remnant's mechanic. If the angels don't get them many of their units 'burn out' after a set number of turns anyway. But they have any number of ways of being reborn, [[CameBackStrong usually coming back even stronger.]] In essence they have a bunch of [[GlassCannon glass cannons]] that keep mending themselves.

** The alternative Hellhorned champion Shardtail Queen's powers all revolve around summoning imps in their droves. [[EvilMatriarch She notably sacrifices them to do damage to the enemy, including the unique ones that call her 'mama'.]]

* ZergRush: The angels will often throw large groups of low-healthed Clergymen or Witherwings at you, which can be devastatingly effective if they do it before you've built up your defenses. One of the challenges which gives a level a better reward is to have the entire train flooded with these enemies right off the bat.

* DamageOverTime: The Stygian Guard's specialty frostbite.

* LightIsNotGood: Bringing "order" to Hell, if you ask the Winged, looks suspiciously like "[[EvilIsDeathlyCold freeze everything to death]]"

* SquishyWizard: The Stygian Guard specialize in very powerful magic abilities, but generally have very low health. Embodied by their champion Tethys, who takes up next-to-no room and augments magic, but can literally be {{One Hit Kill}}ed by the very first angels that hit your train.

'''''Monster Train''''' is a {{Roguelike}} DeckBuildingGame developed by Shiny Shoe and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. It was released for PC on May 21, 2020.

'''''Monster Train'''''' is a {{Roguelike}} DeckBuildingGame developed by Shiny Shoe and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. It was released for PC on May 21, 2020.

''Monster Train'' is a {{Roguelike}} strategy RPG with DeckBuildingGame-inspired mechanics, made by Shiny Shoe and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. It was released for PC on May 21, 2020.

* VillainProtagonist: Downplayed. Your main goal is to deliver your train's Pyre to the heart of Hell and reignite the flames that angels have snuffed out. Said process also restores the native life the angels' [[EvilIsDeathlyCold chill]] has destroyed, and restoring the BalanceOfGoodAndEvil. Many battle quotes show the demons showing genuine rage and pain over how the Winged have destroyed their homes.

* SinisterMinister: Rector Flicker is at once the spiritual leader of the Melting Remnants and a mob boss putting his own faction at odds with each other for profit.