You wake up on an empty train.

None of its stops are your own.

How will you get home...?

Trailer Video on YouTube

Description:

Train Journey is a 16-cartridge PICO-8 game (the maximum size) about a mysterious train to which the player is seemingly bound. Travel between stops, meet unique characters, and learn their stories. Can you free yourself and return home? Or will you ride the train forever...?

Controls:

[Z/C]: Jump

[X/V]: Use Shooty (an unlockable item)

Enter: Pause

Left & Right Arrow Keys: Movement

Up Arrow Key: Interact & Shooty Up

Down Arrow Key+[X/V]: Use Shovel

The game is also compatible with most controllers.

Most text can be skipped if you hold down [X/V] which may be useful when reattempting a boss or something

Screenshots:

Notes:

The Lexaloffle BBS in-browser and the download on itch.io seem to have been much more reliable as far as preserving save data.

Due to the way I used PICO-8 to make this game, and as a result of the level layout, you are unable to save in any "train stop" level. The game can only be saved in the train (when the screen flashes "game saved"). Note that the candle checkpoints are only checkpoints! You will not start at the checkpoint if you restart the game, so I'd recommend playing one level at a time, when you have the time to beat a whole level in a single sitting.

Note that there may be some bugs still left in, so please let me know if you spot any!

I've released the whole soundtrack on my YouTube Channel and on Bandcamp, so go check it out if you want!

Even if you're not interested in playing, thank you so much for checking out this game!!

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Release 1.5:

- birds in level 1 no now shoot projectiles for a shorter duration

- rockets in level 5 no longer crash the game if you shoot them (no idea how I missed that one before!)

- boss 4's big projectile attack has been made less difficult (again, haha)

- the rocket is now always active when the player is pogoing

- fixed level 4's pages remaining becoming a negative number (again. I swear I fixed this before but I guess not)

- when shoveling, the player now shovels to the side first, and then down

- added a bit of in-game text to clarify that the player can shoot up (yes, there's a story behind that lol)

- I made the pitfalls in the interior of the train more obviously dangerous, since it sends the player back pretty far

- revisited the 5th boss to improve some plot consistency

Also......

A spanish translation is coming!!

Huge thanks to Pablo Blanco de la Haza for helping me by translating all the text! It'll be a while longer, but I thought this would be a good time to mention it.