Gaming: Trains Are Taking Over The Survival Genre: There Are A Half-dozen...

It's a great year to live out your Snowpiercer fantasies.

What are you doing over there in that survival game? Picking up rocks and gathering twigs, chopping down trees and collecting berries, all so you can… what? Build a little house that doesn't move and live inside it?

Get with the program! This year the survival genre is ditching those sad wooden huts in favor of mobile bases, and those bases are all trains. There are at least six—possibly seven—survival games set on moving trains all coming out in 2026!

Why the sudden rush to make survival games about trains? And why are so many of them set in a world that has frozen over, like Snowpiercer? Who cares! Trains are rad and I want to build bases on them. Here's a look at the train-based survival games careening down the rails at us this year.

I'm probably most jazzed about Frostrail from FakeFish, maker of excellent submarine survival game Barotrauma. In this solo or co-op survival FPS, brave the deadly cold as you scavenge for resources and fight swarms of hostiles. Upgrade your engine so it can speed faster and pull more weight as you restlessly explore a frozen world.

"Your train is more than a refuge, it is your only way forward. As you explore the frozen wasteland, it will keep you moving and alive, carrying everything you need to survive. Fuel the Eden Engine, manage its power, and operate your train to explore further, scavenging what little remains of this world."

In EverRail the world is freezing, again, and the only way to survive is to keep your train moving. Up to four players can scout the landscape using drones, explore new areas to find resources on foot, and battle enemies in FPS combat. Plus, there's an interesting twist on respawning:

"Every time you die, you take the role of another passenger on the train. As long as passengers remain, you can respawn and keep exploring the procedural world. New passengers can be found in points of interest and dungeons."

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Thematically, Enginefall sounds the closest to Snowpiercer—though it doesn't have any snow. What it does have is a monstrous megatrain that you fight your way through, from the last car to the first.

Source: PC Gamer