A train that cuts through the air in a disorganized world, an engineer lost in a changing universe, and a promise: that of an experience like no other. This November 7, Voidtrain makes a notable entry into Xbox Game Pass and intends to shake up the habits of players subscribed to Microsoft’s service.
Freshly upgraded to version 1.0, the game is available today on Xbox Series X|S, PC and Xbox Cloud Gaming. It directly joins the Xbox Game Pass Premium, Ultimate and PC Game Pass offers, at no additional cost, from the day of its official release. For lovers of new things and atypical worlds, this is a proposition that will not leave you indifferent.
A floating world, a DIY locomotive and uncooperative creatures
Voidtrain is not a train game like any other. Here, no railway tracks to lay or timetables to respect: the player is projected into Nothingness, a fragmented, chaotic universe, with strange physical laws and hallucinatory landscapes. You play as a solitary engineer – or accompanied – responsible for designing, improving and defending a train suspended in the air.
The objective? Explore this fragmented and moving world, recover resources, repel attacks from various hostile entities and transform your makeshift vehicle into a flying war machine. The atmosphere oscillates between strange poetry and constant tension, especially when you have to deal with minefields, enigmatic platforms or abandoned stations to be stripped.
The game offers a real increase in power as you progress. Players can add wagons, build defensive modules, craft ever more powerful weapons, and unlock new features. In solo and in co-op, exploration rhymes with improvisation, and each floating island reserves its share of surprises… sometimes deadly.
Why is Voidtrain getting so much attention?
Developed in early access for several years, Voidtrain has benefited from regular feedback from a loyal community on Steam, where it has a very good average of positive evaluations. What seduces? Its ability to break away from the classic codes of the survival genre by injecting a dose of almost dreamlike imagination, and a marked artistic direction, made of contrasts, spectral lights and unstructured settings.
The game also introduces atypical companions, such as Rofleemos, small endearing creatures that players can adopt to take on their railway odyssey. This detail, apparently anecdotal, nevertheless contributes to the singularity of the title, by infusing it with a dose of tenderness in a world that is nevertheless unwelcoming.
But Voidtrain is not just a visual curiosity. Its gameplay is based on solid foundations, between resource management, construction, confrontations, exploration and cooperation. The experience becomes all the richer with others, where coordination of actions becomes essential to survive.
A strategic addition to the Game Pass catalog
Microsoft’s choice to integrate Voidtrain from its launch into Xbox Game Pass is not insignificant. By focusing on an independent game with a strong concept, the American firm confirms its desire to offer varied and unexpected experiences to its subscribers. This type of game, original and immersive, has every chance of attracting a segment of players looking for significant new features, far from standardized AAA productions.
The month of November promises to be particularly busy for the service, with many arrivals planned in the days to come. Voidtrain is a first milestone, and it could well become one of the surprise titles of this end of year for fans of extraordinary open worlds.
While the video game market is multiplying sequels and established licenses, Voidtrain is playing the difference card. And for those who like to jump on the bandwagon, now might be the perfect time to jump on board.