Alright even if the game is so enjoyable it's literally too small. Side stories are little to none even tho I completed them all it took me 2h to finish the game. Takes an hour or two to finish it without any pre knowledge and if you know the game you may well finish it less than an hour. . According to Choo-Choo Charles’ official description, Charles is terrifying a local village and it’s up to you to destroy him. You’ll complete missions for local townsfolk, loot for scraps to upgrade your train’s armor, mobility, and damage, and ultimately take down Charles.

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Carpenter, Lincoln (October 8, 2021). "How the 20-year-old developer behind Choo-Choo Charles is handling the attention". PC Gamer . Retrieved December 6, 2022. Valentine, Rebekah (June 9, 2022). "Day of the Devs: Everything Announced and Shown, Including Choo-Choo Charles and Planet of Lana". IGN . Retrieved December 6, 2022.

These brief bits are little more than a series of hallways with masked enemies walking around where your only option is to avoid them. You aren’t given any weapons aside from the ones you keep on your train, so you’ll either have to sneak around and wait for NPCs to walk by, or just run past them since they’re slow, stupid, and have poor aim. Sneaking is aggressively not fun, since the only tool you’re given to aid you is the ability to lean left or right to peer around corners from cover. You can’t distract enemies, do stealth takedowns, or even crouch to aid you in the effort. Personally, I found it more bearable to just run past everything, grab the egg, and leave. Or if you’re feeling cheeky, just lead the enemies outside the mine, hop in your train, and kill them with your guns (though that isn’t really worth the time required to pull it off).

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Choo-Choo Charles was largely inspired by the 3D horror animation Thomas Feeds by Tom Coben [10] which depicts Thomas the Tank Engine as a monstrous spider-train hybrid. The animation was published in November 2020 to Coben's YouTube channel. Inspiration was likely also gleaned from Charlie the Choo-Choo, a 2016 children's book written by Stephen King as part of The Dark Tower series. [11] That Viral Killer Train Game Is An Admirable, Original Mess". Kotaku. December 9, 2022 . Retrieved December 9, 2022.

Choo-Choo Charles was developed by Gavin Eisenbeisz using Unreal Engine. [8] He recorded the development process in blogs on YouTube. [9]