Fright Train is a single-player third-person survival horror roguelite in which you fight through a train overtaken by monsters while surviving Antarctica’s cold as paranormal special agent Doug Barker.

Steam 250 week chart: new entry at #44, score 7.05 from 40 reviews, released 15 September 2026. Chart position via Steam 250 week top 50.

Key features

A train is the ideal roguelite map

Carriages are rooms that can only be entered from one end, so a train gives a roguelite a linear spine with no need for procedural corridors. It solves the genre’s hardest layout problem — making randomness legible — by removing the choice of where to go and keeping the choice of how to survive it.

Cold as a second health bar

Antarctica gives the game a timer that is not an enemy. Two competing pressures, monsters ahead and temperature behind, stop the optimal play being to retreat and heal, which is what usually flattens survival horror difficulty.

Roguelite structure in a horror game

Horror normally dies on repetition: once you know where the monster is, it stops working. Rerolling the run means the jump you remember is not the jump you get, which is the most practical fix the genre has found for its own replay problem.

The honest caveat

Only 40 reviews, so the 7.05 score is an opening impression. Steam’s content descriptors flag depiction of cartoon character corpses, dismemberment of monsters, blood and horror themes. Single-player only, and the roguelite loop is also the thing horror purists tend to reject — repetition dulls dread even when the layout changes. The $14.39 price is a 10% launch discount from a $15.99 list price.

Where to find it

Fright Train is on Steam at $14.39 from developer WildArts Games, published by Black Lantern Collective and Gamersky Games. Steam store page.