Apocalypse Express

Super fun game! Absolutely lovin it. As you can see from my play time I might consider myself an enjoyer of this game. I could spend a day writing about everything awesome in the game. It's a really unique rougelike-inspired game. HOWEVER I think the 1.0 release is very rushed. There are a lot missing things that make the game feel distinctly early access still. I've been playing and following this game since it's early days on early access, and it has come so far. Don't get me wrong, the developers are clearly very good at what they do, they just need time to cook. I just don't think the current V1.0 has the complete feature-set needed to call it 1.0, sorry. Big things it's missing right now are: - The runs end after the last boss is defeated but the map indicates there's more to play. And honestly an infinite ever increasing difficulty after completing the story parts and bosses is absolutely needed. It feels REALLY bad to have built up an amazing train only to not have time to actually use that train. There's not actually that many levels between the start and last boss of a run, so this is a huge missing piece and probably the biggest thing that makes it feel early access still. - A few of the train car weapons are not actually useful. They end up being completely dead weight. The core principle of this game is resource management, with your time being the most valuable and hardest resource to manage. You have to manage the whole train by yourself, and the main gun is completely manual, so the rotary gun and mortar both requiring constant player operation like the main cannon is not actually possible to do effectively. They're a huge waste of time and ammunition in almost every situation. The chances of having both the right goldilocks zone scenario to need the rotary gun or mortar and actually have them installed with a decent upgrade is a unicorn scenario that I have not ever had happen once in 128 hours. The bullet deflector is in a similar useless camp because the enemy bullet speed is high relative to the close distance they shoot from and that the deflection pulse radiates from the main cannon exclusively makes it impossible to make good use of during the course of real gameplay. It's simply better to just not take that module, even if it's the only one available. It's better to take the scrap cost than the deflector module. - Ammunition feast or famine is a real tough issue. If you run out of ammo and there's no upcoming shops, you're almost entirely SOL. Ammo crates do come periodically, but it's likely enough that you'll be attacked by enemies that slow down the train or drain the fuel and there's no recourse to stop them if you don't have bullets and you can't get more. This could be more manageable if the player could enable/disable the couple of guns that shoot automatically so they can conserve bullets. Like the Needler module shoots in random directions every second or so and can absolutely waste your ammo to nothing if you don't have a factory on board to produce more. Those are the real main issues I have with the game calling itself 1.0. These are the clearly unfinished elements of the game. But outside of those, it's really an awesome game and definitely worth buying and playing! Great job and looking forward to future updates!

I love this game and how hard it can be at times. This is the best action train game on steam

Not sure why or how but on my system I finished the tutorial and then proceeded doing the first area the wastes and lost on a hard section almost to the end of this first area, and my whole system crashed full on BSOD. I could not tell you for the life of me what led up to this.

I thought I would bounce off from such a stress-inducing game, as you have to do everything by yourself mostly manually, but I actually found it very fun and balanced. The game doesn't expect you to be perfect and is not too punitive when something goes wrong. You can always come back from the most dire situations, but you do have to react fast, intelligently and efficiently.

Very much reminds me and has vibes of Convoy (another great game) but mixed with a lot more active management. It's like convoy mixed with catasronauts and it works well. The first hour I was a bit iffy and the difficulty is a bit steep until but once I got past that, I'm really enjoying it

I like trains. I like traveling by train. I like owning my own train. So the day you decide to change that... The day you decide to take away THREE things I love at the same time... I want you to know something. You will die.