Monster Train
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Strategy gameplay defines Monster Train, a 2020 release with 19,867 Steam reviews listed as mixed at 0% positive. It was self-published by an unknown developer and launched with an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
Monster Train is a 2020 Strategy game developed by Shiny Shoe and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 22,842 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Strategy category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Shiny Shoe with publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Strategy projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.1 million to 2.6 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Monster Train can be compared against similar Strategy titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
22,842
Positive
96%
Steam appid
1102190
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.1M to 2.6M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $15.7M to $36.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| final NB | 80 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Monster Train at roughly 1.1 million to 2.6 million copies, with a median around 1.8 million, derived from its 22,842 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $26.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $15.57Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $15.57 to $24.99, averaging $23.58 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $15.57 on 2026-04-03.
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Where to buy
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- Steam reference$24.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Monster Train sold?
- indielist estimates Monster Train has sold between 1,096,416 and 2,558,304 units (median 1,827,360), derived from its 22,842 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Monster Train?
- Monster Train was developed by Shiny Shoe and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
- When was Monster Train released?
- Monster Train was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Monster Train have on Steam?
- Monster Train has 22,842 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Monster Train within the Strategy segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Shiny Shoe's other releases and Good Shepherd Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Monster Train sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Monster Train page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Strategy game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.