Welcome to Choo Choo Mega Freighter!

Take control of an intricate logistics network in this industrial-themed transport game. As the chief dispatcher, your job is to manage a fleet of trains, ensuring essential cargo reaches its destination efficiently.

Features:

Satisfying Mechanics: Place tracks, manage your trains, and optimize delivery routes.
Resource Management: Keep a close eye on your fuel! Don't let your engines sputter out in the middle of a run.
Meta-Progression: Earn cash from successful deliveries to unlock permanent upgrades in the Meta Tree, allowing you to build bigger, faster, and more efficient networks.
Immersive Audio: Experience the gritty sounds of industry, from the heavy metallic clanks of track placement to the struggling rumble of an engine running out of fuel.
Strategic Gameplay: Plan your routes carefully. Every hex and every movement counts!

Playable directly in your browser. For the best experience, click the fullscreen button in the bottom right corner.

More information

Published	6 days ago
Status	In development
Platforms	HTML5
Author	moecanales
Genre	Strategy
Tags	Incremental, Roguelite, Trains
AI Disclosure	AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds, Text

Comments

moecanales5 days ago

Update: Meta-Tree Balances, Emerald Truck Overhaul, and AFK Audio Fixes!

Hello Tycoons!

We have a new update rolling out today for Choo Choo Mega Freighter. This patch focuses heavily on smoothing out the early-game progression curve, overhauling the Emerald Truck to be significantly more reliable, and squashing a nasty audio bug that occurred when leaving the game running in the background.

Here is the full breakdown of what's new:

🚛 The Emerald Truck Overhaul

The Emerald Truck was previously a bit too strict, requiring 100% of your network to be polluted before it would deploy. We've completely reworked its logic to be the ultimate safety net you deserve!

Lowered Deployment Threshold: The truck will now automatically deploy if 50% or more of your connected cities are polluted (down from 100%).
End-of-Run Cleanup: The truck will now do a forced sweep at the end of your run to clean up remaining garbage cubes, setting you up nicely for your next attempt.
Routine Sweeps: It will now perform an automatic routine sweep every 40 minutes of engine time if there is any garbage on the map.
Cost Reduction: The base cost to unlock the Emerald Truck in the meta-tree has been reduced from 30 to 20 Time Points.
Note: The truck's internal spawn-check interval was slightly increased from 10s to 20s to accommodate the new logic.

⚖️ Meta-Tree Balance Changes

We took a look at the costs of some active abilities and decided they were too expensive to justify their utility early on.

Manual Fracking Cost Reduced: Lowered from [75, 200, 500] down to [30, 90, 200]. It should now be much easier to manipulate city production in the early game!
Foot Pedal (Pump Hotkey) Cost Reduced: Lowered from 100 to 80 Time Points.

🔧 Technical & Audio Fixes (The "Background Static" Bug)

Have you ever minimized the game, gone to lunch, and come back to a wall of horrible audio static? We finally tracked this down and fixed it!

Audio Context Suspension: The game now intelligently hooks into your browser's Page Visibility API. When you minimize the game or switch tabs, the internal audio hardware clock will safely suspend itself.
Sequencer Pausing: The background music sequencer now respects your AFK state, preventing it from trying to play hundreds of "backlogged" notes at the exact same millisecond when you return to the tab.
Dynamics Compressor Node: We added a studio-grade compressor to the master audio output. This acts as a physical safety net—no matter how many overlapping sounds trigger at once, the audio will dynamically duck to prevent digital clipping and speaker blowout.

Thank you all for playing and continuing to leave feedback! If you run into any new bugs, please let us know.

— Armando (Moe) Canales

FrontierSettler6 days ago

Interesting start. The music is awful though.