Train-O-Matic 3000™

frogravity 2026-10-19 13:27 ♥ 1

Hm, my game got stuck here, but I assume that was simply the final level :) (edit: can't read, you mentioned that in the game page, oops!) screen.png Anyway, I enjoyed this! It had a nice difficulty curve, and some of the later levels got pretty hard to wrap my head around! I really liked the speedrun aspect as incentive to plan ahead and give interest even to the easier levels - I think my favorite was the All Roads Lead to Rome level, figuring out how to minimize waiting time without crashing there was awesome! Unfortunately I wasn't fast enough for the highscore though :( Or any of them in fact, and I did try (~~ignore the screenshot time the last level was too hard for me to speedrun first try~~). I do kinda wish there was a timer display during the level, and the speed part was sometimes hard for me as I kept making typos & mixing up light/switch, but I kept trying and still had a lot of fun! Great entry!

cogcomp 2026-10-19 14:44 ♥ 1

Typing instead of clicking for the switches and lights a was surprisingly refreshing way to steer the trains. Enjoyed it and the confusing tracks 😆 Well done!

rucksack 2026-10-20 20:56 ♥ 1

I like trains

Nice puzzle game, very simple mechanics but they add up to very interesting and quite challenging gameplay, I played through all levels.

I think pressing ESC to immediately quit the game is not a good choice, I pressed it intuitively because I thought it would cancel the visual clues. Why not write EXIT into the terminal to quit? Anyway I restarted the game and played through it again. I often pressed space before submitting a command, which counted as a typo... that was a bit frustrating, but maybe that's just my weird habit.

All in all very nice entry!

rolly 2026-10-20 21:09 ♥ 0

@rucksack Thanks for your feedback, it's really good, and sorry for the frustration! Thank you for giving it another try as well, I feel so lucky 😄

I didn't expect the timer to have so much impact on the players, but seeing my friends play it, I totally understand the escape or space keys problem :/ I'll remember that for the next jam!

adam-gould 2026-10-20 21:52 ♥ 1

That was very nice - I think the fact that my time was recorded led me to try and multitask which caused the mistakes that made it interesting. Perhaps if there was also time limits it would amp up the intensity?

But overall I really liked it, it was a well designed puzzle game.

emeraldrat 2026-10-20 22:28 ♥ 0

Nice little game, liked the difficulty ramp! Really scratch that "typing into terminal" games itch

willops 2026-10-20 23:52 ♥ 0

Nice entry! Some of the later puzzles got pretty tricky. The terminal is an interesting riff on the interface

rekk1d 2026-10-21 14:24 ♥ 0

Really interesting concept, running a railway by typing commands is such a cool idea. Loved everything about it, the music, the sounds and the interface are all super pleasant. Great work!

rascar-capac 2026-10-21 15:55 ♥ 0

Loved it, the interface is very nicely polished and controlling everything with commands is such a nice feeling for a nerd like me. Especially liked the latest levels, where you really have to plan the whole thing in order to succeed. I genuinely felt like a traffic engineer ✨️

dashvirus 2026-10-22 01:14 ♥ 0

I don't know if I liked it ? But probably... as I spent 11 hours playing like an obsessionnal train traffic freak.

fifut 2026-10-25 19:59 ♥ 0

A fun, relaxing little puzzle game 👍

yowdie 2026-10-26 18:31 ♥ 1

Chill puzzle game! The command input was different, and the subtle timing of things was fun to work out in my head before I started the first command.