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You are the last thing between order and disaster.

You drive a night train through endless storms. Passengers sit behind you. One of them is not human.

Every ride is different. Every mistake costs money. Every station demands a higher quota.

This is a roguelite train-driver paranoia simulator where survival is only part of the job.

Watch the Storm

The train only moves while you hold the lever.
Release it - and speed drops.

Monitor:

• Maximum speed
• Acceleration
• Drag
• Lightning rate
• Lightning duration
• Distance to station

Reach the quota before arrival — or fail the run.

But driving is the easy part.

Identify the mimic

There are 4–8 passengers. One is a mimic.

It can only kill during lightning flashes. For a split second, something changes: Red eyes. A movement. A missing silhouette.

Kick the wrong passenger — lose profit. Ignore the mimic — lose lives.

The longer the ride, the hungrier it becomes.

Build the Train. Break the System

Between stations, buy upgrades that radically change the run:

• Increase lightning frequency
• Reduce safe time between kills
• Profit from dead passengers
• Boost maximum speed
• Increase kill chance
• Reveal subtle signs
• Manipulate hunger
• Turn chaos into income

You can build for:

• Fast delivery
• Maximum suspicion control
• High-risk death economy
• Lightning abuse strategies

Find broken combinations. Push the system. See how far you can go before the quota crushes you.