Choo-Choo Charles
Fair · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$19.99Fair
On its price record
$4.42BANGER
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $8.69/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 80% ($3.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 90% ($1.99)
- Last discount ended
- 14 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.
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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 27 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago. Past sales have already crossed the $4.42 BANGER line 7 times.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Witch Hunt ($9.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners ($19.99, scores 58).
Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 28 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 1,937 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
94% start to 44% 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
57 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 05:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is absolute peak only downside is that there is not that much stuff to do when you finish it. The game also runs kinda well for my pc so its very good.
Beat the game after just 2.8 hours according to Steam, is that bad? For me, not at all. I don't need crazy long RPGs that take 40, 80, or however many more hours to complete the game. Is the story going to blow you away, nope. Heck, the NPCs mouths don't even move. It's just a fun little train/horror game, there are some intense ish moments early on but like with a lot of games as you begin to unlock things you...
A train that is also a giant spider and wants to kill you. What more could you ask for? 😂 Interesting idea, good atmosphere, and a fun boss fight with Charles. It's not a perfect game, but I definitely had fun playing it.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Choo-Choo Charles scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1766740/choo-choo-charlesReviews 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 19, price as of Oct 1.
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