Exponential Locomotion
Posted August 6, 2025. Updated August 7, 2025. Played 3439 times for a total of 1069 hours.
description
Console based incremental game about trains.
Build more trains, more stations, upgrade everything. Until infinity and beyond!
This game was made for the GMTK Gam Jam 2025 and is in a prototype phase.
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im starting to think this isnt about trains anymore
9 mins 37 secs
I could use this money irl
Fire freaking game, my incremental addiction is loving this game.
i love the art style
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Great for a jam game especially, good luck with the ratings!
The good: Love the ASCII aesthetic, upgrades scale really nicely, UI has great clarity.
The less good: Audio is simple but nice, volume scales a bit high with trains, even when set to 1/16.
Future development: I'd like to see more active things to do with the research section (choosing between a number of projects, maybe the different scientists add progress faster for different projects?). Also spreading out to inter-country train lines and/or inter-continent train lines before immediately going galactic would be nice.
Definitely trying this again if I see an update for it. :D
developer response: Thank you! I really want some decision making involved post jam for sure and a longer "loop".
why do i need a particle accelerator when my trains are already particle accelerators
the ascii is great and the loop is simple but fun... im excited to see what the future holds for this game
Shurry, I think you forgot to mention trains.
5/5 stars bruh!
Why?
Trains, loops, trains, loops, and did I mention Trains!!!!!!! !!! Like what more could one ask for?
Oh? our wonderful DEVELOPER used futuresight and dealt a critical blow!
SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUTER FRICKEN SPACE!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!
Now...
All excitement aside, I do have some ideas on the screen layout. Right now there are two places that: Current funds & Funds/s are displayed. Might be a good idea to pick one, to get rid of the redundancy. I'd pick keeping the graph display.
That's all from me.