Sundown Express
Controls: (there is a tutorial that explains it)
Left click - Select worker / Select saloon
Left click drag - Select multiple workers
Right click - Move selected workers
Esc - Pause (doesn't work in web version if in full screen)
Goal:
Keep the train rolling for as many loops as you can. No matter what!
Mechanics:
Stone & Wood - Mine deposits to gain resources
Train - Moves around and around, when it passes the saloon you gain gold equal to the station level. If it encounters any human it will destroy them, but if the rail is broken, it will derail and you'll lose the game.
Rail Damage - The train can damage the rail when it passes, you need to get one of your workers to fix it.
Bandit - Will target one of the workers and won't stop. I wonder if it's immune to trains...
Vulture - Likes to pick on rails, but scares easily
Buffalo - Watch out for the buffalo stampede, you might want headphones for this one
Download
Install instructions
Download the .zip, extract and run the .exe
Development log
- Bandits dumb no more!Aug 17, 2025
- Post Game Jam Patch NotesAug 16, 2025
Comments
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this game is very fun and overwhelming, got to loop 19! i can only suggest toning down the amount of rail break points that the stampede makes, since the amount seems somewhat unreasonable and it is what killed me
Loop 19 is good! In the state that the game is right now there has to be something that ends the run though, since there is no reason for it to go on forever. But if we were to add some rouge-like elements or something I definitely see your point
Really fun game, came here from the video! Seeing as y'all made it in godot, could I ask how you guys added in transitions between scenes? Trying to add some in a project I'm making, but I don't know how.
Hi, thanks your playing!
Take a look at this https://www.gdquest.com/tutorial/godot/2d/scene-transition-rect/ or this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZQStB6nHuI
We use a global scene for transitioning between scenes, and that scene has the transitions. Hope that helps!
This actually helps a lot, ty!
Maybe upgrading train is noob-bait?
The idea of upgrading the train is that you gain gold faster, but it also makes the game more difficult. This has been removed in the latest update. Upgrading the train might come back later but then it'll probably work differently. There's also been some more balancing changes so see if you can get past the fifth loop now.
Thank you for playing!
There's a bug that if you get 3 wood during tutorial while it tells you to get 3 rock, then get 3 rocks, then the tutorial remains stuck telling you to get 3 wood and the worker never chops the trees lol. Just says: "Collect 3 wood" but it doesn't work anymore
Yeah if we do a post jam update we'll fix it, thanks for reporting :D
The biggest bug problem is when there are multiple rail repairment needed at the same spot. Because instead of fixing them all, the worker just spends the resources and nothing happnes. It's like his timer resets after he detects a new fixable road but the resources are already spent. So you are basically screwed no matter what because those buffaloes will keep destroying multiple at once. Plus sometimes you just don't notice a broken rail, a simple arrow animation could make it easier to spot when you're distracted.
Yeah we're aware of this one. It's definitely the biggest bug atm, and makes it impossible to play the late-game
The issue with the rail repair not working has now been fixed! Thanks for reporting it.
This has now been fixed. Thank you for reporting!
Heh, now I'm so experienced with the old Hardcore mode, that this updated version felt too easy for me lol. At a point where I have so many workers and resources, I have nothing to do, since I have 3 star salone, 5 super fast workers, in which 2 or 3 would've been enough honestly. The bounty hunter is also easy to avoid if you just stay behind the rock and wait for the train to come to kill him. Don't know if it's intended or not. The buffalos are always coming at the same time so you know when to prepare. So everything seems predictable and easily avoidable by doing the same things basically, makes it a bit repetitive. Perhaps more features are now neccessary. Maybe the challange could be that the train keeps speeding up and instead of it being an upgrade in the Salone, it would be the hearts of the train you would upgrade. Don't know if that would be fun or fair, but just an idea. Or the rail track changes the path and so on. But that's up to you of course
Yeah, it's just a game jam game so far, so the gameplay is fairly short. However, in the latest update you will not be able to avoid the bounty hunter as easily :D
Well, now I cannot get pass the tutorial because it just stays stuck at: "right click anywhere", wanted to see the new update :p
Whoops. Thanks for reporting this. It should be working now (:
Very nice game. Art is top notch. I like all the events that can make you loose workers (like the buffalo stampede, falling off a cliff, getting killed by bandits), though it does make the game significantly harder.
Thank you! Yeah we made it a bit too hard. My plan is to do some balancing when I get the time.
fun game, the bandit stole a non-wanted guy tho which sucked big time
Yeah that probably doesn't make sense anymore since we added the wanted tag 😅 Glad you enjoyed it nevertheless!
Non-wanted workers should not be caught by bandits anymore :D
beautiful game, kind of hard though, got to wave 3