Time management mystery adventure game Trainwatch will launch for PC via Steam on March 10, 2027, publisher 11 bit studios and developer Harvester Games announced.
“Trainwatch might be the most mechanics-heavy of my games, but the gist of psychological horror is still very much there, and underlies everything,” said solo developer Rem Michalski in a press release. “It’s a more nuanced kind of horror than explicit violence and jump scares. It’s about an unsettling experience, a claustrophobic setting, and internal, human traumas.”
Here is an overview of the game, via 11 bit studios:
About
In Trainwatch, you’ll experience the rush of memorizing the train timetable and closing and raising the gate. You’ll also have to keep an eye on your hunger meter, get a good amount of sleep, and make sure to keep your hands washed after any bathroom breaks so you don’t get sick. As you progress, you’ll unlock new skills and abilities, all the while being drawn further and further into the fog surrounding the Tower.
Strangers ask for help or a conversation, incoming trains carry messages, and the weirdness spins faster and faster. But be warned, the clock keeps ticking: a day can’t be stretched, and not every lead can be chased, or every promise kept.
If you want to fix your life in a month, you’ll need to decide what matters most and learn to let go.
Key Features
- Do Your Job – Check the timetable, close the gates, watch the train pass, and raise them again. A Gatekeeper‘s work is simple, repetitive, and almost boring—until every errand, strange call, and step into the fog turns the next train into a deadline. Learn the routine, respect the clock, and keep your promise every time the tracks begin to hum.
- Follow the Fog – The Tower is not the only thing standing in the middle of nowhere. Beyond the crossing, you’ll find strange neighbors, locked places, old paths, and secrets that were never meant for you. The farther Troy goes, the more the world seems to pull him in, and the harder it becomes to turn back.
- Hold Yourself Together – Keep Troy fed, rested, clean, and steady. Hunger, exhaustion, fear, and neglect will wear him down, while every missed call with Agatha makes the month harder to face. Staying sober is not a promise made once at the start of the job—it is something Troy has to work at, day after day, between trains, errands, and whatever waits outside.
- Learn to Let Go – The month will not wait for you to be ready. Trains will come, Agatha will be on the phone, strangers will ask for help, and the fog will keep offering another reason to leave. You cannot chase every lead, keep every promise, and make every day perfect. Decide what matters now, what can be missed, and what kind of man Troy becomes when something has to give.
Watch a new trailer below.