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Battle Train cover art

Battle Train

Terrible Posture Games · 2025-06-17

SteamEpic Games Store

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 18, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 18, 2025 (Nintendo Switch)

Battle Train is a run-based roguelite deck-n-track builder set in the world’s most explosive game show. Choose your cards, upgrade your train, lay down tracks, and use destructive locomotives to blast your rival Champions off the rails in a chaotic mashup of deck-building and tactical rail combat.

87%
positive of 119 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
86/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Battle Train is a deck-building rogue indie game developed by Terrible Posture Games and Nerd Ninjas and published from Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game sets as a chaotic game show where players must build the tracks on the field and ram their trains into their targets, and using the same animation structure as their previous game 3 out of 10.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (31 reviews).
  • · Top 60% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 119 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2026-07-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 55 of 97 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
292920252026Week of 2025-06-17: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-06-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-24: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-08: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$7.502025-06-182026-07-272025-06-18 — best price $12.792025-06-24 — best price $16.732025-07-09 — best price $19.992025-07-28 — best price $19.992025-09-04 — best price $14.992025-09-12 — best price $17.882025-09-23 — best price $14.992025-09-30 — best price $19.992025-10-07 — best price $17.202025-10-23 — best price $14.992025-10-27 — best price $11.282025-11-03 — best price $12.792025-11-17 — best price $17.882025-11-24 — best price $11.342025-12-03 — best price $18.492025-12-11 — best price $13.192025-12-19 — best price $14.992025-12-26 — best price $17.202026-01-07 — best price $17.882026-01-24 — best price $14.992026-02-04 — best price $18.492026-02-09 — best price $13.192026-02-19 — best price $14.392026-02-26 — best price $19.992026-03-03 — best price $18.492026-03-09 — best price $13.392026-03-23 — best price $17.202026-03-31 — best price $18.492026-04-11 — best price $17.202026-04-20 — best price $14.392026-04-27 — best price $17.202026-05-04 — best price $14.992026-05-11 — best price $19.992026-05-22 — best price $8.642026-05-28 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $11.992026-07-27 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1302026-06-01 — 2 pageviews2026-06-04 — 2 pageviews2026-06-07 — 0 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-13 — 2 pageviews2026-06-16 — 2 pageviews2026-06-19 — 0 pageviews2026-06-22 — 2 pageviews2026-06-25 — 1 pageviews2026-06-28 — 3 pageviews2026-07-01 — 3 pageviews2026-07-04 — 12 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1 pageviews2026-07-10 — 2 pageviews2026-07-13 — 1 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1 pageviews2026-07-19 — 4 pageviews2026-07-22 — 1 pageviews2026-07-25 — 1 pageviews2026-07-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-31 — 3 pageviews2026-08-03 — 1 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-12 — 2 pageviews2026-08-15 — 2 pageviews2026-08-18 — 1 pageviews2026-08-21 — 3 pageviews2026-08-24 — 0 pageviews2026-08-27 — 1 pageviews2026-08-29 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
79%
earned "Can I Touch Your Moustache?"
24.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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