One wooden train. Eight stations. Don't run out of steam.
Railrogue is a cozy roguelike deckbuilder with one satisfying twist: your keyboard is the engine. Type a sentence to fuel the train, then sit back and watch the little wooden locomotive you built go to work — riding the loop, ringing bells, and racking up points on its own. Where you place things and how you order your wagons is the whole game.
Type → Steam → Ride → Score
Every phase deals you three sentence cards. Type your pick and your speed and accuracy become Steam — a distance budget. The train rides the track spending Steam, and stops the instant the next bell costs more than it has left, so the final stretch is always a white-knuckle crawl toward one more ring. Score is Value × Mult, Balatro-style: bells pour on Value, but Mult is rare and precious, so the exponential builds are the ones that stack it.
Build a train that plays itself
Three layers of deckbuilding, all clicking into one machine:
24 Wagons — each a card with a habit. Order and adjacency are everything.[]16 Track Pieces — bells and gadgets you drop into the loop. Because the train stops mid-lap, where you place them is the puzzle.
80 Trinkets — rule-bending shelf cards across six families: Letters, Consist, Track, Tempo, Economy, and Wildcard.
No fast fingers required
Type as fast as you dare for bonus Steam — or hand any sentence to Autopilot and let the conductor take it at a steady pace. It forfeits the speed bonuses but guarantees a floor, so every run is winnable without typing fast. Push your WPM for glory, or play it cozy. Your call.
A different line every run
8 Engines, each with its own loadout, twist, and signature Whistle.[]6 Stakes of stacking difficulty, from friendly White to brutal Gold.[]5 Routes that reshape the track you race on.[]8 Stations of rising targets, seeded boss-blind rules, and a build-warping Terminus boss at the end of the line.Beat the Terminus and the Endless Line opens — targets climb forever, and so does the leaderboard.
Chase, share, repeat
Every run is fully defined by engine + stake + track + seed, encoded to a shareable RR-… code that reproduces sentences, shops, and offers exactly. Race a friend on the same seed, climb the rotating Daily Seed leaderboard, unlock 20 feats, and fill out a Collection Book that remembers every card you've ever seen.
One wooden train, eight stations, and a rail that's always running dry. All aboard.
