There's a strange beauty about it, only made weirder with the flock of bird-like fish creatures flying past. There’s a hazy bright light that's almost blinding, and hundreds of mechanical parts drifting about almost like they're the debris of a giant explosion. Gravity is enforced when you’re standing but you can jump off the side and swim about to grab crafting materials to upgrade your cart. Your base in this strange new world is an old-timey minecart, complete with brakes, a horn, and a lever that you can pump to move the cart. A Stanely Parable-esque narrator is your only travel buddy, but instead of dialogue dripping in sass and irony, the tone here is more in-line with a golden age action film narrator, all pomp and banter. Finding their bearings, they realise they've been transported to a strange interdimensional area called the Void, an expanse of gravity-less space that has a curious singular train track running through it.
After getting inside and flipping an inconspicuous switch, a giant triangular portal opens up and sucks them in. In Voidtrain, you play as an engineer who gets lost in a snow blizzard and takes shelter in a nearby barn. The demo plays around an hour long and although it doesn’t charge straight to the heart of Voidtrain’s space-train world it serves a great introduction to what we can expect from this, weird survival game. I'm talking about games like Nauticrawl, Far: Changing Tides, and Iron Lung, so playing as an engineer in charge of a steam locomotive rushing through space is exactly my kind of shit. I’m a big fan of games that let me control giant, mechanical contraptions.
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