

Frostrain
STEWDIO · January 11, 2024 · Strategy, Roguelike Deckbuilder, Trains, Deckbuilding, Post-apocalyptic
Frostrain is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.
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Frostrain is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.
About Frostrain
Be the last train conductor roaming the postapocalyptic frozen world! Expand, strengthen, and build synergies on your train. The promised land beyond the toxic zone awaits you and your passengers.
Frostrain — game info
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Players praise this free management strategy game for being surprisingly entertaining with strong rogue-like replayability and challenging difficulty that rewards learning its systems. The main criticisms center on unclear tutorials and confusing mechanics explanations, plus the use of AI-generated art and similar color schemes for train cars that hurt both visual appeal and usability. Despite these rough edges, players appreciate the game's solid core loop and compare it favorably to titles like Frostpunk and Snowpiercer, with most feeling it offers excellent value for the price.
Right. Frostrain. It’s free. And when something’s free, your first thought is: what’s the catch? Is it mining my data? Is it secretly running crypto while I’m choosing train carriages? No. I checked. It came out of a two-month game jam, and now the developer has a paid sequel out. So the first one is basically a business card. A business card you can drive. And the catch? There isn’t much game. Which, honestly, is almost worse. At least data mining would be doing something. Now, I’m not going to pretend there’s no fun here. Driving the train is fun. It’s a train. Everyone likes trains. Even people who say they don’t like trains secretly like trains. But here’s the thing. Imagine a roguelike without random generation. Go on, imagine it. That’s not a roguelike, is it? That’s just a game you play again. Same map, same nodes, same events, every single run. It’s like Groundhog Day, except Bill Murray eventually learned something. There are exactly two things to do: pick wagons and click map nodes. That’s it. That’s the game. I’ve seen more variety in a vending machine. The wagons are the deckbuilding bit, and on paper some of the ideas are genuinely interesting. On paper. Then nobo…3 found this helpful
Luck based and quite boring.3 found this helpful
strangely similar to Dr. Cog ... but good some chance is involved but doing things right reduces its effect
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in general its a nice game if you want something quick. its free so its an easy grab. i didnt see many complaints about it but for me the game is relatively unstable. if i use the fast forward too much the game likes to crash. its really a joy killer if you play any but the first conductor since the game will load back with the first one regardless and kill your strat
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