LOS ANGELES (Sept. 10, 2025) — Big Fan, a Devolver Digital publishing label, and developer Shiny Shoe are releasing today the first free post-launch content update for Monster Train 2, the acclaimed sequel hailed as one of this decade’s best deckbuilders. The Lost Arsenal update is arriving with the PC launch of Monster Train 2: Deluxe Edition, which offers the base game at a 10% discount along with a digital copy of Monster Train 2’s soundtrack and compendium. Monster Train 2’s Lost Arsenal update will soon be live on all platforms, and the Deluxe Edition will be available on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2742830/Monster_Train_2/).
Lost Arsenal continues the pivotal fight of angelic and demonic forces to wrest Heaven’s control from the invading Titans’ corruption, but Monster Train 2’s battlefield is shifting. Mysterious rooms are appearing that didn’t exist before, and sacred relics are returning to their original guardians, the beloved playable warriors returning from the original Monster Train. Seers across every clan are raising the alarm as a new threat now looms on the horizon.
Lost Arsenal Features:
- Expand Your Deck: Draw new Room, Equipment, and Spell Clan cards, including clanless Room and Equipment cards. These clanless cards will add more versatility to runs, and new varieties can be found from Merchants.
- Balanced Chaos: Original Monster Train clan cards have been improved to better integrate with Monster Train 2’s gameplay, along with improved balancing across all clans.
- New Nintendo Switch Setting: On Nintendo Switch, players can now unlock the frame rate in Monster Train 2. This is primarily intended for players on the Nintendo Switch 2 system to take advantage of the console's enhanced performance.
- Full details on Lost Arsenal can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2742830/allnews/
Beyond the debut of Lost Arsenal, Shiny Shoe has charted the course for Monster Train 2 all the way into early 2026; the hellishly cool slate of additions on deck includes new bosses, artifacts, and a brand-new clan:
Monster Train 2 cleverly builds on the original’s innovative, vertical three-floor battle system for a new epic challenge. Wage war against devious enemy Factions by guiding five playable Clans, each with their own strategic advantages empowering alternative battle styles. Boasting an immense array of cards to create synergies and design unstoppable decks with, Monster Train 2’s robust offering ensures newcomers and experienced strategists alike are in for a tense experience brimming with possibility, excitement, and deadly discovery.
Climb aboard the Monster Train 2 express by purchasing the game (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2742830) and drawing future updates from Big Fan and Shiny Shoe on social media (https://linktr.ee/monstertrain2).
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About Shiny Shoe
Shiny Shoe is an independent game developer based in San Francisco, California. They are best known for creating distinctive, genre-defining experiences, including the award-winning title Monster Train, its critically acclaimed sequel, Monster Train 2, and their innovative online co-op roguelike RPG, Inkbound. For more information, visit https://shinyshoe.com/.
About Big Fan Games
Big Fan is a Devolver Digital company. We're a professional group of fans. We love entertainment in all its forms. We love to discover, and we love to share our discoveries with the idea that we can support the creators and fan communities that we are a part of. Big Fan works with some of the best Indie game developers around the world to explore and expand pop culture's most iconic characters, worlds, and experiences into new and original games that people are going to love.
Collectively, we’ve published a lot of different games on a lot of different platforms, based on a lot of different brands. Like you, we’re really into games. But when it comes to “licensed games”, we think there’s a new approach. One where Indie developers get to take some risks and explore things in new and exciting ways. Find us at https://www.bigfangames.com/.