[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車

About [Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車

The Ghost Train (幽霊列車, Yurei Ressha) is a game by Chilla's Art, the Japanese two-brother studio behind Aka Manto, Inunaki Tunnel and Missing Children, released on Steam for Windows in July 2020. Its Japanese description sets it up plainly: you are a salaryman taking the train home, in a psychological horror game with a Japanese horror theme.

It plays mainly as a walking simulator. You move through train carriages and stations, and the horror is in what happens to an everyday journey; the makers promise that the game will drive you insane. The environments are inspired by Japanese horror films, and the photo-realistic scenes are shown through a VHS filter that copies CRT trails, tape noise, interlacing and signal jitter.

The store warns that it contains disturbing scenes and suicide, and blood, and that it may trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. The game saves automatically on every load.

A run takes 40 to 60 minutes, and there are several endings to find. It suits players who like the strange-train and wrong-station stories of Japanese urban horror and want a short, quiet game rather than a chase.

How to play [Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車

1. Buy it on Steam or itch.io for Windows.
2. Board the train home as the office worker and watch what changes around you.
3. Walk through the carriages and stations; the game autosaves on every load.
4. Replay to reach the other endings.

Tips

• Play in one sitting, a run takes under an hour.
• Play again after your first ending; there are several to find.
• If flashing lights trouble you, take the seizure warning seriously.

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