Battle Express

A tactical shootout on a moving train.

🐎 The Heist Begins…

Welcome aboard the Battle Express — a roaring steam train slicing through the wild frontier. You're a lone gunslinger with a score to settle, boarding car after car in a deadly tactical fight.

Every move is a decision. Every bullet counts.
This is the Wild West, turn by turn.

🔫 What is Battle Express?

Battle Express is a turn-based tactical platformer.
Inspired by Shogun Showdown and Into the Breach, it blends tight movement strategy with cinematic cowboy action.

You’ll fight your way through a moving train, one car at a time — managing position, timing, and limited actions in a deadly dance of grit and bullets.

🎮 How to Play

The game is turn-based: enemies only act after you do.
Each turn, you can:

• 👢 Move left, right, up, or down (within the car)

• 🔁 Flip facing to prepare for threats behind you

• 🥊 Ready an available attack (like a punch or your revolver)

• 💥 Execute all prepared actions in a single burst

Your starting loadout includes a pistol and your fists, but you'll need to use them wisely — missteps are punished fast.

💼 Loot & Progression

• 👜 Items like medkits and armor drop from defeated enemies or are sold in shops between fights

• 💰 Collect coins to purchase upgrades from traders on the train

• 🔓 Future versions may add new weapons, abilities, or train car types

🏆 Features

• 🎩 A stylish Western pixel-art aesthetic

• 🚂 Modular train design with side-view tactical arenas

• 🎶 Original Western music soundtrack (no chiptune!)

• ⌛ Clean, single-step turn-based combat

• ⚔️ Punches, pistols, precision — no randomness, only decisions

📜 Credits

Made by Firellon and Kutase in 2025.

💬 Feedback Wanted

This is an early version of Battle Express — more features, polish, and content are on the way.

If you liked the game, leave a comment or suggestion! 

We’d love to hear what you think.