The Game Census
Spooky Express cover art

Spooky Express

Draknek and Friends · 2025-10-21

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 21, 2025 (Mac), Oct 21, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 21, 2025 (Android), Oct 21, 2025 (iOS)

All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet!

Spooky Express is a Casual, Indie and Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $14.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (99% of 98 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

99%
positive of 104 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)
Spooky Express is a 2025 puzzle video game developed and published by Draknek & Friends. Players complete a series of levels by routing train tracks through a grid to pick up and drop off a series of passengers. The game was released in October 2025 for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Reviewers praised the gameplay and theming of Spooky Express.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 29,055 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.1k–4.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 104 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.74 at Steam (2026-09-02)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 8 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
222220252026Week of 2025-10-21: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$10.492025-10-212026-08-032025-10-21 — best price $13.492025-11-04 — best price $14.992025-12-04 — best price $11.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-01-17 — best price $11.992026-01-31 — best price $14.992026-03-02 — best price $11.242026-03-16 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $11.242026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-04-18 — best price $11.242026-04-28 — best price $14.992026-05-28 — best price $11.242026-06-04 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $11.242026-07-09 — best price $14.992026-07-20 — best price $10.492026-08-03 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2402026-06-20 — 24 pageviews2026-06-23 — 17 pageviews2026-06-26 — 5 pageviews2026-06-29 — 5 pageviews2026-07-02 — 3 pageviews2026-07-05 — 1 pageviews2026-07-08 — 3 pageviews2026-07-11 — 2 pageviews2026-07-14 — 1 pageviews2026-07-17 — 1 pageviews2026-07-20 — 1 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-26 — 5 pageviews2026-07-29 — 0 pageviews2026-08-01 — 4 pageviews2026-08-04 — 2 pageviews2026-08-07 — 3 pageviews2026-08-10 — 1 pageviews2026-08-13 — 0 pageviews2026-08-16 — 1 pageviews2026-08-19 — 2 pageviews2026-08-22 — 0 pageviews2026-08-25 — 1 pageviews2026-08-28 — 1 pageviews2026-08-31 — 2 pageviews2026-09-03 — 2 pageviews2026-09-06 — 0 pageviews2026-09-09 — 1 pageviews2026-09-13 — 2 pageviews2026-09-16 — 1 pageviews2026-09-19 — 0 pageviews2026-09-22 — 1 pageviews2026-09-25 — 9 pageviews2026-09-28 — 4 pageviews2026-10-01 — 2 pageviews2026-10-04 — 4 pageviews2026-10-07 — 0 pageviews2026-10-10 — 1 pageviews2026-10-12 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
81.8%
earned "Safe Passage"
37.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsKeyboard Only OptionMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller Support1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-10-24 (Steam store data)

Census log

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

Recent updates

Players also track

Supreme Ruler UltimateDon't Knock TwiceHouse of CaravanRusty Lake HotelAnother Brick in The MallRusty Lake: RootsBronze Age - HD EditionApsulov: End of Gods

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗