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Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Heat Death: Survival Train is a early access, open world survival craft and crafting game
developed by Mass Game Devs
and published by LightOnDevs.
Released on December 12th 2024 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 486 reviews of which 393 were positive and 93 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or AMD Radeon RX 570 with 4 GB of VRam
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 10 GB available space
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VERDICT: Blending the train-based survival horror of Choo-Choo Charles with the postapocalyptic ice world of Snowpiercer, Heat Death: Survival Train is dry, clunky, and more busywork than excitement, but it can still manage to be a fun ride for the right railfan passenger. PROS: ✅ Unlike Choo-Choo Charles, Heat Death lets you not only upgrade your train, but also customize it. Imagine building a settlement in Fallout 4 -- only on a train, and just for you. ✅ Speaking of Fallout, Heat Death also does a decent job of creating a lonely, unforgiving world with a dangerous vibe -- complete with deadly weather, radiation, and killer robots. ✅ Resource management can be an enjoyable, thought-provoking challenge. Commendably, the game does only a bit of hand-holding before letting you build whatever upgrades you want, assuming you have enough resources. It can be fun to puzzle out what's best at any given time -- more weapons, more power generation / capacity, more resource-gathering / -storing devices, etc. CONS: ❌ The gameplay is tedious: travel to a new station that's mostly similar to all the others, collect resources, repair and upgrade your train, repeat. (Though, if you're into trains like I am -- watching real trains go past the same stretch of track, or watching model trains go around and around in a loop -- then you're probably fine with repetition.) ❌ This is probably by design (and to make development easier), but the world really is desolate. Few major landmarks, no music, and no NPCs, aside from logs that they left behind -- kind of like the original version of Fallout 76. This helps make the world feel like a frozen hellscape, but the right music could've added to the icy vibe rather than detracting from it. Think Southern Shelf from Borderlands 2, Beneath the Ice from Skyrim, etc. ❌ The UI can be awkward, especially when storing and building. Occasionally, you can't just click to spend blueprints to unlock a crafting recipe, and you have to use the keyboard instead. Because there's an "eat" / "drink" / "heal" button right next to the "store" button, it's easy to accidentally consume food or medicine that you meant to just store in a chest -- each of which can hold only 20 kg worth of stuff, so you'll probably end up crafting a lot of chests, filling them with stuff, pulling it all out the next time you need to craft at a station, and then putting it all back after. As for building, you can move only one thing at a time, and if there's an object anywhere nearby, you can't build a wall / window / ceiling, even if there already used to be one in the exact same spot just now -- you have to move the object(s) out of the way, build the new wall / window / ceiling, and then put the object(s) back. ❌ The main source of power for your train is nuclear, and radiation drains your health whenever you empty the generator (and thus pick up spent fuel), pick up raw fuel, are near the generator while it's running, and/or are near a chest with raw or spent fuel (unless it's a special radiation-proof container that's unavailable till a few stations in). It's realistic, but frustrating -- especially when you pick up raw fuel far from your train and lose health on the journey back. Similarly, it's equally irritating that you need heaters to survive cold weather aboard the train, but standing too close to the heaters also kills you. ❌ Yet another realistic-but-frustrating barrier is, you can't run or jump when your inventory's over capacity. It wouldn't be so bad if that just slowed you down (like in Fallout), but it can stop you in your tracks -- literally. You can't cross the tracks without jumping, so if you're on the wrong side, you're carrying too much, and there's no chest with sufficient space on your train within reach, then you're stuck. Once, after I collected a bunch of stuff and walked up to the tracks, I was forced to dump all that stuff onto the tracks, jump up onto them, and then pick everything back up. And don't even get me started on Station 65, where you can't even get to the platform without jumping from your train -- crafting there was even more inconvenient than usual. CAVEAT: I'm writing this in January 2026, when Heat Death is still in Early Access. I realize that the game is incomplete, and that it can, and likely will, keep changing. I just wanted to give my thoughts on the game as it currently is, rather than how I hope it could be. For now, to me, the game was worth the roughly $10 USD I spent while it was on sale, and I'm looking forward to the possibility of seeing more content in the future.
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Pros: -Train can go unbelievably fast -Though same biome, beautiful scenery -Puzzles are moderate difficulty at least( I will still not learn Morse code) -Building is simple and effective -Game hasn't crashed once Cons: -Really wish this game had COOP, it would've been so fun shooting at drones with friends -Needs more random events/locations/details/paint and customization of walls is lacking -Please add some kind of radio ingame or maybe walkie talkie quests( it is awfully quiet) 8/10 I will definitely come back once it is fully released !
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super fun little rabbit hole that can only get better with time. sadly reached the end of early access after only 6hrs of game play :(
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Heat death, kinda mixed on it. The game itself plays fairly well, with a only a few quirks. Good things - It plays well. The puzzles aren't overly taxing. Hidden Loot areas. Easy construction and ability to alter it if you make a mistake. Overload enabled, you can carry more than your limit, but with penalties. Bad things - Death trap areas (once in you die), small resource chests. The incredibly short time your Nuclear powered generator works. No ability to rest (you have to burn drinks and food to keep going), even tho there are beds in the game. Basic structures like LADDERS are mid game recipes. Things to know. You cannot place gun turrets on roofs. If you want to place turrets on top of your train (which is a MUST) you will need to place floors on the upper level to place them on. Many clear areas and paths have treasures at the end. Growing food is a must as energy drink will run out. Don't make batteries. There are plenty in the game, all rechargeable.
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I have been obsessed with this game since the demo first dropped. I am loving the early access changes as they are. I can run this on full settings and still only hit about 145f on my Acer laptop. While only the first chapter is currently available, I still have made a lot of fun out of running the rails back and forth to the starter zone. I have built several different trains at this point and I am looking forward to doing many more as the development progresses. On my third restart, I finally saw that shimmer of light up in the mountains. I am glad that I saw it. This is a lore-rich snow survival game. Your wits can make it easier or harder. Lateral thinking is often rewarded.
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Heat Death: Survival Train is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.
Heat Death: Survival Train is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 11.79€ on Steam.
Heat Death: Survival Train received 393 positive votes out of a total of 486 achieving a rating of 7.61.
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Heat Death: Survival Train was developed by Mass Game Devs and published by LightOnDevs.
Heat Death: Survival Train is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Heat Death: Survival Train is not playable on MacOS.
Heat Death: Survival Train is not playable on Linux.
Heat Death: Survival Train is a single-player game.
Heat Death: Survival Train does not currently offer any DLC.
Heat Death: Survival Train does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Heat Death: Survival Train does not support Steam Remote Play.
Heat Death: Survival Train is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Mass Game Devs
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LightOnDevs
Release
12 Dec 2024
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