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The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.
Last Train Home is a strategy, real time tactics and rts game
developed by Ashborne Games
and published by THQ Nordic.
Released on November 28th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Czech.
It has received 4,536 reviews of which 3,946 were positive and 590 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 6.70€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 64 bit
- Processor: 3 GHz Quad-Core
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 1050-Ti (4GB) / AMD® Radeon™ RX 570 (4GB)
- Storage: 20 GB available space
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Recommended - but it clearly runs out of balance by mid/late game. I like Last Train Home . The premise is strong, the road-trip pacing works, and the whole “keep the crew alive while dragging a train through chaos” vibe lands. So yes - more yes than no. That said, two things break the loop for me: economy and combat. ✅ What works [*]Atmosphere and setting - the journey feels tense and grounded. [*]The train as a “moving base” - good framing for decisions, upgrades, and momentum. [*]Early game pressure - when resources actually matter, the game is at its best. ❌ What doesn’t [*]Combat gets stale by the end. Encounters start blending together, and the tactical layer stops evolving. [*]Economy makes no sense. On my first playthrough and on my second, I reached the final stop with gold and resources basically leaking from every seam. Even on the second run - no locomotive upgrades, no optional stops besides story missions - same outcome. Scarcity disappears, and with it a big chunk of tension. [*]Stealth rules, but it’s too easy to cheese. Snipers at level 3+ feel borderline broken, and enemy AI is… charitable. You can literally shoot enemies at close range, dip into a bush, and reset the situation. Or the funniest version: four snipers in one bush turning a 6+ soldier patrol into a knife-themed blender. [*]Also: why does the artillery car even have a machine gunner? I kept waiting for that “hold the line / defend the train under pressure” moment where suppression and sustained fire would matter. It basically never happened. In my runs the MG guy was dead weight - stealth + snipers solved everything faster and safer. 🛠 What I’d change (in one patch) [*]Tighten the economy - meaningful upkeep, harsher attrition, fewer “free” resource fountains. [*]Rebalance snipers and stealth - better detection, smarter search behavior, less “bush invisibility magic”. [*]Give late game combat new problems - different objectives, threats that force repositioning, more variety than “same patrol, same solution”. [*]Either redesign missions to make suppression/defense matter, or rethink the MG role in the artillery car. Verdict Cool game. Interesting. Worth playing. But the balance collapses into “I am rich and invisible in a shrub,” and combat starts feeling like chores you already solved 10 hours ago.
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I'm former history teacher with ADHD. I haven't finished this game yet but when my computer went down 3 days ago, I bought another one and a $20 cradle for my 2.5 SSD with the saves for this game on it so I could finish this game (no internal SSD slots, just 2 HDD and 2 M2s, all of which I filled). Do you understand how many games I've finished out of the hundreds in my life? I can count them on 1-2 hands bro & I'm gonna finish this one. Just buy the game if you are interested in these types. Great job.
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I pick this game up every winter, I don't play it much but it is the perfect winter game. In fact owning it for two years I am only 28 hours in, the story is amazing, you really sense the dread in every conflict and decision. You want to reach the end just as much as you can imagine the real soldiers did. The accuracy of the game had me watch a lot of breakdowns of the Russian civil war. If you love history or just an amazing story this is the game for it. The sense of endless dread from war has me constantly take breaks from this game, which is why, even when I do play this game in the winter, over the past few years I am only just above half way through. It still captivates me when I play it.
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If Birth of a Nation was a game. This is the most violently anticommunist game I've ever played. Not even touching historical accuracy, because my knowledge of the Russian civil war is pretty limited. Despite it's contention that "war makes monsters of us all, there are no good guys", in this game there clearly are! The whites are a diverse group, with a fair amount of honorable soldiers and officers who sometimes assist you, even against the orders of their high command. The red army are a horde of savage animals that cannot be negotiated with, only shot or occasionally scared away with force of arms. Every civilian comes to you begging for help fighting the plague of communists who steal, murder, and burn their way across the countryside. But the game never stops for a second to consider that that is what the Czech soldiers are doing! You rumble across Russia in a locomotive bristling with guns, murdering everyone who gets in your way and grabbing anything that isn't nailed down. When the communists do it, it's barbarous pillaging. When your guys do it, you're just picking up a little resource token. In terms of the game itself, the tactical layer is prefunctory. To it's credit, it does have enough variety to keep every mission from feeling the exact same. alternating between picking off isolated patrols, storming heavily manned enemy positions, digging in against waves of attacks, and scrambling away from enemy artillery and armor until you can gain the upper hand. However, there's a winning set of tactics that basically defeats every challenge (sneak to take out enemy gun emplacements, use scout's snipe ability to take out high priority targets, line up all your guys in cover to clear enemy infantry before they find cover, and drop artillery/grenades on enemy tanks). It's not very hard, but it is quite tedious, and certain mechanics are extremely janky so sometimes you can fail through no fault of your own. The strategic layer is the real star of the show. Micromanaging your train, upgrading and scavenging for resources while avoiding enemy attention is really fun. That, along with the beautiful painted images of wartime depravity are what creates a tense atmosphere that kept me playing to the end. I can recommend this game if you have a good tolerance for jank and reprehensible politics.
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A long and arduous journey, though i'd say the emotional payoff is worth it. If you like top-down tactics games reminiscent of commandos + a bit of resource management outside of missions, this is for you. If you want to cheese the hell out of the game, get a sniper to 5, then spec him to rifleman and you'll trivialize 50% of all combat encounters.
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Last Train Home is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
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Last Train Home received 3,946 positive votes out of a total of 4,536 achieving a rating of 8.41.
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Last Train Home was developed by Ashborne Games and published by THQ Nordic.
Last Train Home is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Last Train Home is not playable on MacOS.
Last Train Home is not playable on Linux.
Last Train Home is a single-player game.
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