Fit check
Is Bounty Train worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want a train-centered campaign with trading and passenger transport
- Players interested in 19th-century North American settings who want historical events in the story
- Tacticians who prefer solving encounters through diplomacy, violence, or bribery
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a fast, combat-focused game without resource management, trading, or travel decisions
- Players who prefer a linear campaign rather than a non-linear journey with faction changes and branching choices
- Players looking for a modern setting instead of 19th-century North America
Our take on Bounty Train
Its defining structure is a customizable steam locomotive that functions as both transport and a fortified base, carrying the crew through a non-linear historical campaign where trade, scarce resources, faction loyalties, and encounter choices shape the journey.
What is Bounty Train?
Bounty Train is a strategy and simulation game set in 19th-century North America.
Players obtain and customize a steam locomotive, recruit a crew, and travel between real-life cities while trading goods and transporting passengers. Resources are limited, equipment can be unreliable, and encounters may involve diplomacy, violence, or bribery. The journey includes chase fights, ambushes, quests, bandits, and historical events and inventions. Players can influence the story, reunite with their family, and attempt to prevent the forced removal of Native peoples. Four major factions provide different affiliations, with the option to change sides during the campaign.
How Bounty Train plays
- 01Custom Train Building
- The locomotive can be expanded and fitted with varied equipment to serve as a mobile stronghold.
- 02Crew Management
- A recruited team travels with the train and takes part in overcoming dangers across North America.
- 03Resource-Limited Travel
- Scarce supplies and unreliable technology affect decisions during trade, transport, pursuits, and ambushes.
- 04Faction Switching
- The campaign offers four large factions and allows allegiance to change during play.
- 05Historical Story
- The non-linear campaign visits real cities and lets choices alter historical events and inventions.
Bounty Train compared to similar games
Bounty Train centers its strategy on operating and modifying a steam locomotive, moving goods and passengers, and navigating a non-linear 19th-century journey. Xenonauts focuses on turn-based squad operations against an alien invasion, while Old World covers empire leadership across generations, including political marriages, heirs, and long-term legacy management.
Bounty Train: platforms & release
Is Bounty Train worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want a train-centered campaign with trading and passenger transport. Skip it if: players seeking a fast, combat-focused game without resource management, trading, or travel decisions.
Where can I download Bounty Train?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Bounty Train's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Bounty Train on?
Windows and macOS.
