Train by Zefou

After three years of sitting around, I have finally finished this game. The game is playable from start until finish for those who tolerate a few typos and possibly the odd bug. You are welcome to comment if you find anything weird.

In the game, the player finds his- och herself in a compartment on a train with a dead body, and that's where the story takes off.

Enjoy!

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Comment dskdev

10 Dec 2023

Did anyone ever figure out how to open the luggage compartment?

Comment Asa Turner

17 Jan 2023

*SPOILERS*

This is really fun, but I am genuinely having a ton of trouble figuring out what I'm supposed to do to advance the story properly. I talked to the man in the suit and completed the task, then went to the luggage compartment to get the recorder; however I was stuck in the luggage compartment until i reached turn 238 and the train stopped, at which point I teleported onto a train platform with no knowledge of anything. I tried everything I could think of - hitting/kicking/cutting the wires and door, climbing under/over/through the wires/door, and I also opened the hatch and tried everything I could think of with the grating but could not get out of the luggage compartment no matter what.

Comment Ruchi1

25 Apr 2022

I got past the wires somehow. Can someone please tell me how to throw up the poison

Comment Ruchi1

23 Apr 2022

I'm currently stuck behind the wires and I don't know how to get back on the other side. It says "maybe you should take up running?" but I cant do that either.
Other than this one thing I love the game and looking forward to play more games by the creator.

Comment human9

22 Oct 2021

I’m so confused on what I need to do. I wish there was a walkthrough.

Comment SuzieQToo

10 Oct 2021

*SPOILERS* This has made me remember why text adventures were so frustrating. On the ledge, open window to w. But I can't climb through window, break it, go sw, w. The interface of seeing objects and associated commands helps, but only when object is on that list! so guessing what I can possibly do next feels like an almost infinite choice

Comment Willem

14 Jun 2021

I'm so confused. How do I climb over the net of wires? It just says that I can't climb it and that it can't see it either.

Comment Tempora's Requim

01 Apr 2021

Okay, figured that last one out. What specific command do I have to type to get into compartment 14? Cuz I tried both "go in" and "go to".

Comment Tempora's Requim

29 Mar 2021

For some reason, whenever I leave to explore other compartments, I get arrested. Is that supposed to happen? Or am I doing something wrong?

Comment astro_says

17 Feb 2021

I'm totally stuck in the luggage compartment... I can't stand on the box, I can't do anything, how do I get out?

Review User72

05 Dec 2020

I really like it!

Comment User72

05 Dec 2020

I got stuck behind the wires in the storage. Can anyone help me out here?

Comment themintcutiebackup

21 Nov 2020

How do I get to compartment 14??

Comment Eliza271

12 Jun 2020

Hint to other players: the "blood" comment is important. This indicates what you should do at the beginning to avoid the dead end ending. Look at everything.

Comment OwenTheBold

27 Feb 2020

This game is stupid!
When I got to the part where someone passes me a note, it didn't comply with my answer.
This game is so fucking stupid, and it should burn.

Comment Zefou

11 Nov 2019

Hi KrytsKill!

You can absolutely "climb through" the window to get back out even though it seems to disappear. To be sure, I tried it and it seems to work.

Comment KrytsKill

19 Sep 2019

Is there a way to leave compartment 6? The compartment door is locked, you can't unlock the door, you can't go n,s,e,w,etc., the window seems to have disappeared, the suitcase can't be moved, the body can't be moved, no viable interactions with the bed or table. What am I missing?

Comment Zefou

31 Jul 2019

After waking up, the police are supposed to arrive (but the script did not work, but is now corrected). You are then supposed to escape through the window.

After having played through the whole game now, it seems to work (finally).

Comment bozwellox

26 Jul 2019

OK so sleeping got me to the next bit. I've drunk the disgusting thing the fat man gave me and now I don't seem to be able to do anything else. I'm stuck either in the hotel, where I don't seem to be able to do anything, or walking around outside, where I can't go through the roadblock.

What am I missing?

Comment Zefou

15 Jul 2019

A good solution to any problem is going to sleep.

Comment bozwellox

12 Jul 2019

OK so....I'm stuck.

I've departed the train, checked into the hotel and visited the bar but I don't seem to be able to do anything. I have the wig, but apparently it doesn't suit me. I'm going round in circles. Is it because I have no money and therefore can't buy anything from the bar? Thanks.

Comment Zefou

03 Mar 2019

Thank you for pointing an obvious flaw out. While editing some things in the game, I forgot to move the player character back to the starting point. It should be fine now.

Comment bewitchedatlas

27 Feb 2019

I was very hopeful about playing this game, but the beginning two options only lead to a dead end for me. The narrator speaks about blood and being arrested, that's the end. I'm thinking it's a glitch.

Comment GeminiTwins

23 Aug 2018

Maybe a bit late to this, but I'm stuck in compartment 14 after getting ambushed. I've thrown up the poison, but there's no way out of this room and nothing to interact with here that would be of any help. I've tried to get out through the window, but the parser doesn't even recognize that there is a window.

Comment jmnevil54

14 Dec 2017

> kiss body
You make out with the man for a moment.

Glad to see anything is possible...
Really funny!

Comment lumixangel

23 Mar 2017

I'm stuck on the ledge, can't seem to figure out what i have to do next. Can't go back where I came from, can't climb onto the roof, can't go through the window and I eventually freeze and die. Hints please? :(

Comment AttackOnGhouls

03 Aug 2016

This is embarrassing... how does one go through compartment 14?

Comment Racketeer

31 Jul 2016

Really liking the game so far - I have got into the luggage carriage and over the wires, and I've got the tape recorder and have closed the red box again. But I can't stand on it to get back over the wires, and if I try to stand on other boxes it says I cannot stand on "itknowredbox". I can't break through the grating either, which is a pain...so I'm stuck...but I'm really enjoying it - great game!

Comment Vulpixula77

03 Apr 2016

Nvm I fixed it :3

Comment Vulpixula77

03 Apr 2016

I'm not sure if this is a bug or I'm missing something, but I don't seem to be able to leave room 6, I've tried all I can think of but the door's locked, I can no longer climb out the window and I've run out of things to interact with within the room and can't open the package

Comment BukiBuki

28 Jan 2016

Just played a little but I'll continue later. I stumbled though on something that may be a bug on the very first room. If you sit on the leather chair, there is no simple way to get up with 'sit up' or 'get up' or 'stand up' or 'sit up from chair' etc. I said it may be a bug or I may not know the right command but still, if getting up from a chair is a puzzle itself, what is ahead looks kinda scary. :P

Comment Zefou

07 Nov 2015

There is some more in the uploaded version (and the coffee problem - an alternate solution for a puzzle- is not necessary to finish it) ; )

I'm always thankful for bug reports.

Also, I will upload the next version quite soon. The gamenhas grown a bit since the last update!

Comment PakkiAttakki

06 Nov 2015

Great game so far, Zefou!

I'm stuck at the coffee vendor. I cannot buy coffee (I get an error message) and I cannot go north, even though the description suggests the street goes that way. Is there a way forward?

Comment Zefou

07 Oct 2015

Maybe there is something somewhere else on the train that can make you throw up?! ;)

Comment MrMauricioLeite

04 Oct 2015

This is a great game. I've just drinked the poison but can't vomit it or throw up. How do I move out of here?! Help please!!!!

Comment Zefou

25 Aug 2015

The part about the grating is a bug, which I will fix : ) Thanks for mentioning it!

If you try the game again, try another way of getting past!

Comment stella1

17 Aug 2015

I'll be honest - I'm a bit lost. The farthest I've gotten is to get up on the chair and try to cut the wires, after which it prompts that I have no piece of grating...

Comment Zefou

07 Jul 2015

Thank you for the feedback!

Bug reporting is also always welcome!

Comment MJK

02 Jul 2015

Not sure if this matters, but I can open compartment 5 but not enter it. If I type "Open Compartment 5" it reads something like "Compartment 5 is now open." But then when I type "Enter Compartment 5" it reads "Compartment 5 is locked."

Comment daniel&ashley

01 Jul 2015

Got the tape recorder on the table, but then had no idea where to go until I'd recorded something. Then I got caught. I am liking the story though.

Review jamie.soule

26 May 2015

Really great start and I hope you keep going. Just one thing: this font against the background wasn't exactly easy on the eyes, so maybe a different font or color scheme would help.

Comment Zefou

24 May 2015

Once again, thanks for the compliments!
I will get back to working on this game once my exams are done in two weeks. Among other things, I can see that I will need to drop a few hints on how to solve the puzzles. I'll find some way to do this. The worst part is that there are already even worse puzzles later on ;)

If you would like to try the game again, I can give these hints:
1. The people on the train have not seen the body in your compartment, and at the start of the game no one knows about it. You get caught because you look like you have comitted a murder. Somehow it shows, but there is an easy way out of this once you think of it.
2. The tape recorder is, as the man in the compartment says, in a red box (But don't ask why!). The box can be found in the luggage car, but of course you have to make it there.

Most of the puzzles in the game would be quite straight-forward in real life, so try the things that seem really obvious!

Comment MisterPibb316

24 May 2015

Had a similar experience: couldn't figure out how to get the tape recorder, and kept getting caught. What I managed to play through is promising and has a compelling blend of suspense and unsolved questions that move the plot forward, so I hope you decide to finish this game.

Comment Zefou

25 Mar 2015

Thank you for the compliments! I will look into both the typos and the puzzles. There are ways both to avoid the risk of being caught and a slightly far-fetched way (actually, two quite similar ways) to get the recorder. However, I guess I will have to make it a bit clearer what the player should do (my friends, whom I tried the game on, had exactly the same problems as you).
I will also take a look at your game as soon as I have the time! The title sounds interesting.

Comment XanMag

25 Mar 2015

Nice setting. There are some typos that are easily fixed - give it a quick proofread. I was a little confused as to why I kept getting caught... also, I was supposed to record a conversation with a tape recorder, but never ran across a recorder? I think. I played it a few times and had to leave. Maybe I was missing something? Keep working on it. I think it has potential. =)

Good luck finishing! When you make updates let me know and I'll give it another run through. If you get a chance, return the favor and give me some feedback on Xanadu - The World's Only Hope.

Thanks. Happy gaming.

Review Lahoya

23 Mar 2015

I liked this! Hoping for more.

Review Bransmerumpa

20 Mar 2015

Great game! I hope this is finished. Fantastik writing interesting setting. Like a spy movie.

Review Festeros56

17 Mar 2015

Maybe the best text adventure I have played here. A bit short but I love the premise.

There are a few inconsistencies here and there, but this game has potential. You should play it!