While the game is not a bad purchase overall, I must counter all the brainless hype (I suspect botting in reviews) it's receiving. It is, sadly, not an amazing sequel.

The art design didn't improve so much as just has gotten more busy and it's not that pleasant or interesting to look at. The game now is not ergonomic to view anymore. Many of the new additions to the formula have not had a user experience pass with the visuals. I am often forgetting to trigger monster abilities because there is no visual flair regarding their existence. Room effects and Equipment are just tiny icons that are easy to forget about. The soundtrack this time around has no memorable pieces, unlike MT1 which had some great boss music. It overall feels like the composer bought an electric guitar and proceeded to spam random heavy metal riffs over everything, it is a very uninspired OST. The gameplay is more of the same but with new cards and effects, which is fine. There's some additions to the formula, such as room and equipment cards but they do not necessarily feel thoroughly thought through. Probably my biggest criticism is that the macro design doubled down on the stupid Covenant difficulty modifiers for the 7 people on the planet (and 30 streamers) who play roguelike deck builders in a heavy meta-gaming way like it's their day job and the fun stuff like Mutators still turn off progression and unlocks.

It's overall nothing more or less than a loose encore of Monster Train with completely new cards and a lazy soundtrack. Oh and they added an absolutely braindead plot for clowns.