Solves my biggest problem with Slay the Spire - rather than facing off with only two or three enemies at a time, you are hurriedly retaining ground control of the three floors of your train from a series of escalating enemy waves. It's less elegant, by oh my god it's not stopped being exciting.
Lacks Slay the Spire's years of content and quality of life updates, but the foundation of Monster Train is so strong I'm excited to see where the journey takes it. Wonderfully designed around scrounging whatever bizarre and broken-feeling combos you can find on the road, with a tough but fair difficulty curve that encourages you to do so.