Battle Train

A very fun puzzle, deck building game. With a charming and fully dubbed story. Game also let you quit and resume from any point in the game, so it is easy to stop at any time. I had extremely fun playing this game and I highly recommend it.

i am of two minds about battle train. i REALLY love the concept and gameplay. it is really enjoyable to connect tracks against an opponent and the puzzle solving that comes with it. unfortunately, i would call just about everything else about it half-baked. somehow, it is still really fun in spite of that. i honestly only bought into this game now instead of during a deep sale because i was seeing the low turnout and lukewarm reviews and i wanted to support the team and i knew i'd enjoy playing it. i think the heart of the issue is that roguelike deckbuilder is a genre that ever since its grandfather Slay The Spire it has always been very tightly designed with frequent creatively designed risks and trade offs built into each encounter. battle train is clearly very deliberately loose in its design. it chooses style over substance and that's a shame for such a substantive foundation, but design like allowing bosses to directly hit you regardless of defense is neither intuitive nor properly curbed by surrounding mechanics. neither are the often lopsided maps. i've learned to be fine with that. the core of battle train is not in its fairness--it's a very beatable game even despite how unfair it feels at its worst--it really is the style. you have to love the game's abundance of story cutscenes at least a little bit, and appreciate how the game's story elements evolve every time you lap it. i cannot shake the feeling that battle train is a case of lost potential but i also sincerely have found it to be worth every penny just because of how incredibly addicting the base mechanics of building your track is.

This game was crafted in a lab to appeal specifically to me.

I've never left a review for a game on Steam before, but I'm definitely feeling motivated to do it now. Battle Train is a fun strategy game with good animations and a fun story. 10/10, would highly recommend.

I really wanted to love this game... but it just isn't all that fun, then as if the dev knew that there wasn't enough content and it wasn't that good, they lock gameplay behind a story gate which just forces grinding. I would recommend to the dev that they should spend less time on 'backstage' cut scenes and more time on the gameplay and mini games. Also, instead of cards maybe a 'roll and write' style of gameplay could be fun? Where you customize and upgrade the dice you roll for your abilities/track. This got grindy REAL fast. Imagine if Enter the Gungeon/binding of Issac/Dead souls stopped you at the 3rd level and 'gamed over' your run because you haven't gotten to the 3rd floor 6 times already? It's just makes you feel bad as player. This could be worth 3-5 bucks, but even then I would probably not play just because of forcing a run loss because you need to beat the game 5+ times before getting more game.

FUN game but some major design issues. Good first: This game is actually a lot of fun, the puzzle piece design of tracks is an interesting mechanic, and its always satisfying to actually fill up space the most efficient way while also blocking your own stuff while also reaching into enemy territory but not too much at the same time... it offers a lot of really interesting play / counterplay and general strategy. HOWEVER, This game's progression is designed in a way where it feels like it does not want you to play it. The hard lock progress barriers are SO ANNOYING. And so obvious too. Its the main thing that makes this game hard to come back to. The first time you play, you will maybe beat the first boss? Unlikely, but even if you do you definitely wont have the cards or HP left to get very far in the next stage, and most definitely not have good enough cards to do enough damage. And who designed this path choice system? choose from one of three routes at the beginning... then keep going on that path until the boss? Why even bother? And, once again, the game pretty much forces you to just always choose the path of least resistance, because the risk reward for fighting enemies is never worth it. Lose a bunch of your hard to recover health for some gold and a card? When I can just choose the route that gives me a bunch of free cards and gold with no fights? Lol. And back to the forced progression. What prompted me to leave the review is that, on my third go, I was doing really well, and scraped by after defeating mr tesla. It was a good fight, and I was ready to go after that and maybe die to the boss man. BUT NO. the game said, uh, your ARBITRARY score is 200 points too low to even keep playing... ????????? What the hell?????? who would do that? why would I fight tesla, if I was just going to lose anyways? like seriously... Game shoots itself in the foot tremendously every step of the way, but the core mechanics are fun enough to balance that out. So just treat it more like a linear arcade game rather than an intelligent roguelite/like and its a lot less frustrating. But yeah... the score was ridiculous. extremely stupid mechanic. Especially since there is no indication of this score anywhere until you get there. Why not give me a chance to up my score before fighting, especially if its 200 points off? (it was 11,701 / 11,900 points to proceed). Ridiculous.

謝謝萬代不知道為什麼讓我要隔快一年才能玩到這款遊戲的正式版 甚至我在epic都買了然後沒有開過 喜歡這遊戲的感覺減少了很多，不過依然是一款很棒的遊戲

Battle Train est un bon jeu avec un concept efficace qui ne tombe pas dans le piège classique d’une complexité à outrance au fil du jeu. Certains pourront trouver cela dommage et que le jeu manque de profondeur mais personnellement j’ai trouvé le jeu très agréable de bout en bout. En plus du gameplay mêlant deck building et stratégie qui a son petit côté addictif, le jeu propose une histoire amusante et plaisante à suivre. Vous viendrez à bout de l’histoire en une vingtaine d’heures. Le jeu est complètement fonctionnel sous Linux avec la configuration suivante : OS : CachyOS (Kernel: 6.19.7-1-cachyos) CPU : Ryzen 7 5700X GPU : RTX 4070 (Driver : 580.119.02) RAM : 32 GB

I like trains, great game!