All Aboard! The Train Defense Express
Fair · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1h
- Value
- $4.99/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
Protect the Infinite Power Generator by looping around the train tracks! Battle endless waves of enemies in this unique hybrid of auto-battler, survivor, tower defense, idle/clicker gameplay. How long can you survive?
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
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in December 2025. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 8 in the 2 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Idle Research (free, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats xiuzhen idle ($5.99, scores 48).
Of the 357 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026.
1 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 15 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
98% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
All Aboard! The Train Defense Express scores 53/100 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/3359200/all-aboard-the-train-defense-expressReviews 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 29, price as of Sep 30.
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