Loco Motive
Worth it · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.47.
- Length
- 8.9h
- Value
- $2.02/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 84% over the last 30 days against 93% all-time.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 8 and Oct 21, at about $8.09 (55% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 58 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($12.59)
- Last discount ended
- 25 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4400, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
There's been a murder aboard the Reuss Express, and you're the suspects! Prove your innocence in this comedy 'point n' click' murder mystery - packed with twists, laughs, and larger-than-life characters!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $8.09. It has been discounted 19 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.47. The record reaches that level once.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Rise of the Golden Idol ($13.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Thimbleweed Park™ ($19.99, scores 71).
Steam's global achievement data puts 37 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Players rate it 93 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 84 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 2 of the 380 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
93% start to 37% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Bought this game on sale as it was cheap and recommended to me. I love a good classic murder mystery and I wasn't expecting much from it but I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised. The humor, setting, characters, music. It just all fits together to create such a fun experience. You can really tell this game was made by people who love what they do and it translate into every minute of this game!
Nice writing, amazing visuals and voice work. The puzzles are pretty mixed. A puzzle is not hard if you have to search for something in the whole train without knowing what you are actually looking for, that's just tedious. The game makes that up mostly with a very nice diegetic hint system.
Loco Motive is a point-and-click game done right. The murder on the Orient express vibes are very relevant throughout the game, and the game seems to blend critical thinking and witty humor together in a nice Mish mash that I can safely say is one of my most favorite games I've played this year. This game sat on my wish list for quite a while while it was in development, and I can tell it was made with love and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Loco Motive scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1709880/loco-motiveReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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