Planned Release Date: Q3 2026

About This Game

Britain is collapsing under a fast-spreading infection. You command Mercyrail, one of the last services still running. Starting at London Waterloo, build a northbound evacuation route across surviving rail connections and try to reach Glasgow Central, a refuge at the far end of a country coming apart.

The train is more than transport. It is a moving community and one of the last public services people can still depend on. Across the journey, you decide who gets passage, what you can afford to give up, and what kind of authority you create by keeping the route alive.

Route Across a Real Rail Network

The map uses OpenStreetMap railway data. Its stations, connections, and routes follow the real UK network rather than an invented game map. Discover neighbouring stations, commit to multi-stop journeys, and change course as infection, failed points, damaged track, barricades, flooding, and contested corridors alter the risk of travelling north. Distance and intermediate stations matter: a route is a journey through the network, not a choice from a destination menu.

Railway data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under ODbL 1.0.

Build and Sustain Your Train

Build your train from passenger, medical, and cargo carriages. Balance food, fuel, medicine, water, spare parts, storage, train condition, and the crew needed to keep a longer train moving. Repair at depots, treat sick passengers, and decide whether another carriage is worth the extra weight and work it adds.

Decide Who Gets Passage

Some stations have named people and groups waiting for a way out. Others may be empty. First, Standard, and Steerage seats are class-bound, so the train you build determines who it can carry. Accepting, refusing, or leaving people behind changes public trust and the community aboard. Railway workers can join the crew, but every worker also needs a seat.

Send Named Crew Into the Ruins

At each stop after London, assemble a search party and send it out for supplies. They may stumble across survivors who need a seat, even when nobody was waiting at the station. Push deeper for a larger haul and rare opportunities, or call the party back before rising danger turns into wounds, infection, or death. Crew members gain Scouting, Fieldcraft, and Salvage experience across expeditions, making the people you risk part of the train's long-term story.

Manage an Infection That Keeps Moving

Infection spreads between connected stations and changes the places you revisit. Medicine can protect passengers during dangerous arrivals, while a medical carriage treats illness over time. Neglect has a human cost: sickness can spread aboard, and untreated passengers can die. Critical stations remain choices rather than arbitrary locked doors, but their local control, exposure, and physical hazards may make stopping there desperate.

Make Choices That Leave a Record

Narrative events confront material conflicts rather than simple good and evil. Work with rail crews, medical networks, passenger councils, government remnants, and commercial interests. Choices alter supplies, morale, reputation, authority, faction relationships, and later events. The campaign journal keeps a record of what happened and what your service became.

Watch the Country Change Around You

Waterloo begins as a strained evacuation terminal, but the remaining national coordination falls apart once the train leaves London. Stations become functioning holdouts, survivor enclaves, abandoned ground, contested territory, or bandit-controlled corridors. Infection spreads, local control changes, and places visited earlier may not be the same when you return. Glasgow Central is the destination. Reaching it with the train moving and people still alive is the challenge.