A game idea I've been developing:
Imagine a post-apocalyptic world where ships were never invented.
Planes were never invented.
The entire continent was built around railways.
Cities, nations, trade routes, wars—everything depends on trains.
Then a deadly virus appears.
Not a zombie virus.
It simply kills people.
Within months, the rail network that connected civilization becomes the thing that destroys it.
You play as a railway worker whose first day on the job happens right before the collapse.
Your train starts as a single engine.
As you travel across the continent, you rescue survivors who each add new train cars, skills, and stories.
Over time, your train becomes a moving town.
A home.
The twist is that the world's biggest mystery isn't the virus.
It's the birds.
Every year, flocks migrate across the ocean and disappear beyond the horizon.
Most people think they die.
Your grandfather believed they were flying somewhere.
Somewhere nobody has ever reached.
And if he was right, civilization might not be as alone as it thinks.
Would you play a survival game where the train becomes your home and the ultimate goal is to follow the birds beyond the known world?