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Altergaze Announces The Veil Express, A Cozy Magic Train Management Game
Altergaze has announced The Veil Express, a cozy management game set on a magic train hidden from human eyes. Players are the conductor, housing goblins, witches, fairies, ghosts and vampires who have lost their place in the human world.
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Why it matters
The pitch puts the management loop directly against the Veil itself: building rooms and running workshops draw on the same magic that hides the train, so expansion is the threat rather than an outside antagonist.
Key Facts
- Altergaze announced The Veil Express, a cozy management game set on a magic train humans cannot see.
- The Veil Express is scheduled for release on Steam on December 2, and a demo version is available.
- The game has five journeys with five endings in the main one, plus a sandbox mode.
- The Veil Express contains 42 rooms and 14 goods, with six types of cars.
- Passengers who are happy strengthen the Veil, and unhappy ones weaken it.
Happy passengers strengthen the Veil that hides the train. The game has five journeys, 42 rooms and 14 goods, and launches on Steam on December 2 with a demo available.
Five clans share one side-scrolling cross-section train, and no clan manages alone. Goblins produce the food three clans rely on, witches enchant what fairies need, and ghosts and vampires depend on the fairies' life drops. Building new rooms consumes the Veil, workshops use it while operating, and even keeping the train running draws on its power. Too hasty a build can thin the magic that protects everyone.
Six car types run from standard cars to three-story ones, and players place stairs themselves. Along the way families ask for help and merchants offer deals across eight lands, from Mistmarsh to Frostridge.
- The Longest Journey: The main journey, gathering the five clans and choosing one of five endings.
- Veil of Night: A harsher road with seven lands under polar night and a far longer train.
- Separate Paths: A challenge journey where each clan stays in its dedicated car.
- Lost Cars: A challenge journey starting with a broken train and half-built cars joining every six days.
- Sandbox Express: All clans and all rooms from day one, with no goals or endings.
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