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Battle Train

Outthink, outbuild, outblast! Battle Train combines deck-building and tactical rail combat. Upgrade your train, lay tracks, and destroy your rivals with devastating locomotives. The rails are your…

86 18 June 2025

Battle Train is an adventure developed by Terrible Posture Games, released 18 June 2025 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Battle Train is

Battle Train is an adventure game developed by Terrible Posture Games and released in 2025. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Outthink, outbuild, outblast! Battle Train combines deck-building and tactical rail combat. Upgrade your train, lay tracks, and destroy your rivals with devastating locomotives. The rails are your battlefield—will you be the last train standing?
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 29 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Battle Train holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i7-920 \ AMD Phenom II X4 965, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 [2 GB] \ AMD Radeon HD 7770 [2 GB] \ Intel Arc A310 [4 GB]. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.

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What it launched against

Battle Train launched on 18 June 2025, within three weeks of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dune: Awakening, The Alters and Elden Ring Nightreign. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 8 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dune: Awakening, The Alters, Elden Ring Nightreign.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Battle Train — frequently asked questions

When did Battle Train come out?
Battle Train was released on 18 June 2025 for Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Battle Train?
At minimum, Battle Train needs Intel Core i7-920 \ AMD Phenom II X4 965, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 [2 GB] \ AMD Radeon HD 7770 [2 GB] \ Intel Arc A310 [4 GB] graphics, 2 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Battle Train?
The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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