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Exclusive reveal: First details on a major update to Monster Train 2, Destiny of the Railforged.

A tough new play format and an anvil-slapping set of new units are coming in early February for 2025's best card game.

Monster Train 2's first paid DLC, Destiny of the Railforged, will add a new clan to the game, the Railforged, as well as an expansive new mode called Soul Savior. And outside of this paid update, one of the original Monster Train's clans is also being added to Monster Train 2 for free. No price has yet been announced for the DLC.

I spoke with Mark Cooke, founder and CEO of Shiny Shoe about Destiny of the Railforged, how this ambitious new mode works, and what mechanics the new clan brings to bear.

Monster Train 2 takes place in heaven, but the new mode, Soul Savior, plays out in a spacey, ethereal realm called the Soulstream, where you fight to reclaim souls from a final boss called the Lifemother.

The mode isn't a novelty side attraction, but a fresh way of playing Monster Train 2 that the studio wants to be equal in depth and complexity to the main game.

Cooke says that the studio wanted to creatively explore a new format of play, but not take the approach they took in Monster Train 1, where DLC altered the way that a standard run worked. Making a separate type of run allows the studio to introduce "a bunch of new mechanics so we can isolate those things and make that as cool as we possibly can without interfering with the way that the base game works," he says.

Souls are indeed an imaginative new system: they're unique, permanently unlocked boons that enhance cards or units, or that take the form of global buffs, similarly to artifacts.

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As you play runs of Soul Savior, you'll permanently unlock souls, a new form of meta progression. Each soul has a different criteria to unlock or upgrade, representing "tens of hours" to fully collect and upgrade them all, says Cooke. Initially you'll bring in one soul when starting a new run, later unlocking the ability to bring in multiple.

Source: PC Gamer