The Final Station was announced this week for the PlayStation 4 system by tinyBuildGAMES. The Final Station is a pixel-art game that revolves around you, the conductor of your very own train, safely transporting passengers to their destinations all while keeping the train operational, visiting possibly abandoned stations, and gathering supplies and more survivors. There's also an apocalypse going on so no destination is easy and no trip is safe.
The announcement came with an interesting introduction by the developer, talking in their post about how people reacted to playing their game for the first time. The difficulty, one that appears easy at first, becomes known as you enter an unknown station for the first time with no idea of what, or who, may be behind the door. With constantly low supplies, the developer says that "watching players brace themselves before opening up a door is my favorite moment as a spectator." Reminds me of my first encounter with the Resident Evil game series but you have many more tools of destruction at your disposal. While you may be short on actual bullets, you can throw most objects at oncoming enemies, from boxes to toilets, all while saving your bullets for headshots on those pesky monsters.
The first part of the game is exploring abandoned stations where you loot, rescue survivors, and encounter enemies. Let’s talk about that. You start off with a pistol and a melee attack. The melee is useful for taking out single enemies, but you will need the pistol for taking out fast-runners, armored enemies, and I won’t spoil the rest.
The goal in each Abandoned Station is to find as much loot as you can, rescue all of the survivors, and make it back in one piece. Usually your train will dock at the station and get locked with a passcode. This passcode can be found somewhere at the station. And don’t worry, there are no escort missions for survivors — they make their own way back to the train.
Between Abandoned Stations, you need to ensure your train is operational and your survivors are well taken care of. With the loot that you gathered you can craft ammo and medkits, so it’s a good idea to explore stations.
The game itself consists of five chapters. In-between chapters you visit inhabited stations where you can upgrade your gear and get more of the story.
If this wasn't enough information for you, an announcement trailer also came out with the blog post.
I'm not sure about you but with the developer making it clear that there will be no escorting of passengers, I'm already giving it an A for effort. And for trophy hunters out there, the developer said in the comments that they will be talking with Sony about having a platinum trophy. What could possibly go wrong?
The Final Station will be coming out on PlayStation 4 console on August 30th, 2016.
We've got the full list of The Final Station trophies - check the list for guides to unlocking them.