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Playing as an unnamed engineer, you’ll have to put your mechanical knowledge and combat abilities to the test after being mysteriously teleported to a weird, unstable parallel dimension known as “The Void”. Starting out with nothing but a handcart on floating rails, you’ll need to scavenge materials and build your very own customized train to continue your journey, and find a way to go back to your dimension.

While this premise could be interesting, as the concept of parallel dimensions opens up to great narrative potential, its execution is one of the most lackluster I can remember. You’ll be thrown into a world that rightfully feels alien and incomprehensible, but at no point do the story or optional lore elaborate enough for you to understand the innermost workings of it whatsoever. The only things you’ll realize are that some Wolfenstein-looking soldiers will be hunting you at every inhabited outpost, and that you need to fulfill some kind of obscure prophecy as part of your manifest destiny.

Story-wise, Voidtrain feels like a jumbled mish-mash of Norse mythology, steam/dieselpunk elements and some vague hint of dimensional horror, just without the horror part. On top of that, the obnoxious Narrator communicates telepathically for most of the adventure, often states the obvious or makes cringeworthy commentary on your exploits, further dragging down an already insufferable, obscure storytelling.

The worldbuilding feels generic and uninspired, despite being visually decent. Be it throughout the long railways leading you to the next stop, or exploring the often-dilapidated depots and ramshackle outposts along the way, Voidtrain introduces you to a world that never feels cohesive or immersive at any point, but rather seems like a handful of assets thrown around with just enough polishing to not look completely random. The excessive repetition of environments, locations and scenery elements gets stale soon, and further emphasizes the boredom of it all.

The main tool to traverse the void will be your train, always on a fixed track drifting through floating islands and the occasional outpost. You’ll be able to decide the pacing of the train, as long as you have fuel for its engine, although going at the lowest speed in order to get all the resources is almost always the best decision, at least until late-game, when you won’t need resources as much anymore.

Which is why the game in general feels tremendously boring: what you’ll be doing most of the time is just standing on top of your locomotive and slowly getting bits of resources one by one, either by hand or, later, using your grappling hook. These resources can then be used to upgrade your train, making it larger, faster, more armored, and capable of continuing more facilities such as smelters, crafting tables and so on in order to advance your technology further, and have a bit better quality of life features, such as automating some tasks otherwise done by hand, like cleaning or refilling gauges.

Despite being an open-world survival crafting title, Voidtrain has extremely limited exploration: most of the time, you’ll be forced to stay aboard or in the vicinity of your train, floating in the void with a safety cable attached, to best scrounge up the various resources that periodically spawn along the way, or fight the comparatively rare enemies that might pop up. Only during facility stops, or main quest related circumstances, you’ll be allowed to stray further from your train and explore the world, although always in a very linear fashion. There are some hidden caches of loot to find in stations and depots, although they never hold anything you wouldn’t normally find while in the open Void already; other than that, there’s no other secret, optional area or out of the main path location for you to find.

Combat plays out in FPS fashion, with the Engineer able to carry one primary weapon, such as a rifle, shotgun or machinegun, and a secondary pistol. Mostly, you’ll face soldiers and void creatures, such as sharks, as recurring enemies at depots or during void travel. The basic mechanics of FPS apply, so things such as headshots inflict bonus damage, and enemies will go for cover or retreat to heal when on low health. The fact you can pick enemy weapons up and then dismantle them to create your very own jury-rigged rifles with color-coded rarity parts isn’t bad, but as a mechanic, it feels wasted in a combat system that is overall simplistic and very shallow.

Enemies have basic AI routines and feel repetitive after just a few hours, while they’re not very smart at all, since they won’t do much past taking cover or running away when taking a lot of hits. Even if they become progressively stronger, gaining extra armor, better weapons and having some more elite variants of themselves spawning around, the difficulty of combat is generally low (well, unless you use custom settings and crank up enemy damage and health to 500%, but you might just go and play Borderlands in that case). The only proper boss you’ll fight is at the end, and it’s mechanically varied enough to not get stale, and quite a bit more challenging than what you encountered so far. Too little and too late, though.

In my opinion, the story is somewhat bland, and as a lot of other reviews state, the gameplay is basically just Raft.

I much preferred the original story they were going with, when the intro sequence still had Jonas, Michael, and the door that they were trying to open the wrong way. (Which you can see in Z1 Gaming's first episode from Aug 17, 2021.)

I picked up this game after really enjoying the trailer and was excited to play it with friends. We completed the full story and went for 100% achievements, so I feel I’ve seen everything the game currently offers.

The game absolutely has a lot of potential. The visuals are great, the atmosphere is unique, and the core concept is genuinely fun. However, the longer we played, the more the weaknesses became impossible to ignore.

What I liked
* Beautiful visuals and a strong overall concept
* Fun co‑op experience, especially early on
* A world that feels like it could grow into something amazing

What didn’t work for me
* Gameplay becomes extremely repetitive, with the same actions repeated over and over
* Very limited enemy variety
* Resource gathering becomes pointless once everything is researched
* Late‑game progression turns into pure grinding rather than fun challenges
* Some achievements are frustrating or even broken depending on your train upgrades (e.g., “Don’t stop
me now” — my friend had to restart the entire game because the train killed the leech instantly)

By the end, my friends and I stopped collecting resources because there was simply no reason to continue. We wanted more: more enemies, more arenas, more weapon customization, more reasons to keep playing after finishing the story.

I genuinely believe this game could become something great if the developers continue expanding it. But in its current state, I unfortunately cannot recommend it, especially for players looking for long‑term progression or variety.