Meet Troy, the new Gatekeeper. His job is simple - close the gates at a desolate railway crossing for one month.

This is his last chance to earn back his wife's trust. To prove he can stay sober. To become a better man.

Join him at the Tower in the middle of nowhere.

Help Troy fix his life.

A fogbound railway crossing in the middle of nowhere might not be the most obvious setting for a video game, but it's central to this time-management mystery adventure. Troy has decided to withdraw from his everyday life, and a new job in near-complete solitude is meant to help him take stock - and make up for the mess he's made of things. For the next month, his tasks are simple: close the gate when the trains cross, stay sober, and call his wife every night.

Something waits in the fog beyond the crossing, though - and the life Troy came here to fix may be harder to hold together than he thought.

Publisher 11 bit studios and horror dev Rem Michalski (Harvester Games) announced that Trainwatch is launching for PC (Steam) on March 10, 2027.

"Trainwatch might be the most mechanics-heavy of my games, but the gist of psychological horror is still very much there, and underlies everything," says Rem Michalski, the solo developer behind the game. "It's a more nuanced kind of horror than explicit violence and jump scares. It's about an unsettling experience, a claustrophobic setting, and internal, human traumas."

Key Features:

• Do your job: Check the timetable, close the gates, watch the train pass, and raise them again. A Gatekeeper's work is simple, repetitive, and almost boring – until every errand, strange call, and step into the fog turns the next train into a deadline. Learn the routine, respect the clock, and keep your promise every time the tracks begin to hum.
• Follow the fog: The Tower is not the only thing standing in the middle of nowhere. Beyond the crossing, you'll find strange neighbours, locked places, old paths, and secrets that were never meant for you. The farther Troy goes, the more the world seems to pull him in, and the harder it becomes to turn back.
• Hold yourself together: Keep Troy fed, rested, clean, and steady. Hunger, exhaustion, fear, and neglect will wear him down, while every missed call with Agatha makes the month harder to face. Staying sober is not a promise made once at the start of the job - it is something Troy has to work at, day after day, between trains, errands, and whatever waits outside.
• Learn to let go: The month will not wait for you to be ready. Trains will come, Agatha will be on the phone, strangers will ask for help, and the fog will keep offering another reason to leave. You cannot chase every lead, keep every promise, and make every day perfect. Decide what matters now, what can be missed, and what kind of man Troy becomes when something has to give.

Trainwatch is coming to PC (Steam) on March 10, 2027.