Choo-Choo Charles is a game by Two Star Games about a person who's hired to come over to an island to murder a killer spider train named Charles who's been terrorizing the populace after a mine owner/greedy capitalist Warren Charles III (hinting at something maybe? Who knows) accidentally (or maybe on purpose) digs up monster eggs which woke up an ancient evil. You're job is to kill the monster by any means necessary, mostly involving a moving train and a machine gun/any weapons you pick up. You go around completing quests that involves stealing three eggs, finding a hidden stash of pickles, finding 8 Pages hidden in a forest (yes a Slender reference), and others I won't bother to reveal, all while collecting scrap and upgrading your train to match up with Charles himself.
That's it for the story for the most part, you can mostly find other pieces of the story by picking up notes hidden around the island which tells of cult worship, Warren's expeditions, and the obsession of the local Pickle lady. As mentioned before, you can complete quests and get scrap and new weapons, as well as collect scrap all around of which there's enough to find before you finish the game. You can also collect paint cans to customize your murder train. And basically that's the loop, drive around in a train, complete missions, and etc.
Honestly overall, I like it as a game. It's on the short side (excellent), it's a novel concept with a funny premise, and there's enough lore to make it somewhat interesting. You can tell that this was an indie team of one or two people and for what they had they made some unique and interesting. The sound design was creepy, and graphically it looks good. Like I don't honestly have many negative things to say other than the stealth isn't really that good. In certain areas around the island a cult led by Warren himself have stationed themselves and to me it turned into "Get their attention, run to the train and shoot them, then run back and pray to god". Other than that, I can't think of anything else that's really bad for the life of me. It can also certainly be scary as hell (though kind of frustrating) when you're a bit far from your train and that motherfucker flies in out of nowhere and stomps your booty hole in. Another complaint I guess I can throw out is the price, 20 dollars isn't bad but I'd say wait and get this on sale, especially considering sometimes it feels barebones.
Positives:
Unique concept
Interesting, albeit not too much lore
Killer Train bonding
Sound Design/Graphical Presentation is good
Short Side
Negative:
Stealth Sucks
A bit high for the price
To finish it off, yes it's a small indie game and can it feel somewhat empty sometimes? Yes it can. But I like what they have here, and I know they can expand it to make it even better in the future, but for what we got now? It's pretty good and I enjoyed my time. Shout out to my G Wrathne for getting me the game. If you want to check out the development cycle behind this game, I'd suggest looking up Two Star Games on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@TwoStarGames/videos
From Steam Reviews: https://steamcommunity.com/id/gamemast15r/recommended/
That's it for the story for the most part, you can mostly find other pieces of the story by picking up notes hidden around the island which tells of cult worship, Warren's expeditions, and the obsession of the local Pickle lady. As mentioned before, you can complete quests and get scrap and new weapons, as well as collect scrap all around of which there's enough to find before you finish the game. You can also collect paint cans to customize your murder train. And basically that's the loop, drive around in a train, complete missions, and etc.
Honestly overall, I like it as a game. It's on the short side (excellent), it's a novel concept with a funny premise, and there's enough lore to make it somewhat interesting. You can tell that this was an indie team of one or two people and for what they had they made some unique and interesting. The sound design was creepy, and graphically it looks good. Like I don't honestly have many negative things to say other than the stealth isn't really that good. In certain areas around the island a cult led by Warren himself have stationed themselves and to me it turned into "Get their attention, run to the train and shoot them, then run back and pray to god". Other than that, I can't think of anything else that's really bad for the life of me. It can also certainly be scary as hell (though kind of frustrating) when you're a bit far from your train and that motherfucker flies in out of nowhere and stomps your booty hole in. Another complaint I guess I can throw out is the price, 20 dollars isn't bad but I'd say wait and get this on sale, especially considering sometimes it feels barebones.
Positives:
Unique concept
Interesting, albeit not too much lore
Killer Train bonding
Sound Design/Graphical Presentation is good
Short Side
Negative:
Stealth Sucks
A bit high for the price
To finish it off, yes it's a small indie game and can it feel somewhat empty sometimes? Yes it can. But I like what they have here, and I know they can expand it to make it even better in the future, but for what we got now? It's pretty good and I enjoyed my time. Shout out to my G Wrathne for getting me the game. If you want to check out the development cycle behind this game, I'd suggest looking up Two Star Games on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@TwoStarGames/videos
From Steam Reviews: https://steamcommunity.com/id/gamemast15r/recommended/