Red Rover Interactive has launched a free demo for Enginefall on Steam today as part of Steam Next Fest, available until June 22nd. The game is a post-apocalyptic PvP crafting shooter set aboard massive moving trains, aiming to become a longer term PvP survival crafting game, with a much clearer end game loop.
What to expect from the Enginefall Demo?
The demo introduces several new gameplay systems ahead of the full launch later in 2026. Players can upgrade, customise and fortify Dagger Shuttles, which are personal trains that act as mobile bases and raid planning hubs.
There’s also a new Dagger vs Dagger mode, pitting players’ custom-built trains against each other in direct PvP encounters. Hostile NPCs have been added to Titan Train raids, the game’s large-scale loot runs aboard these huge industrial trains, adding extra pressure on top of the existing PvP threat. A revamped tutorial train also walks new players through crafting, progression and base-building before throwing them into the deep end, with an early game difficulty that has PvP turned off while players pick up the basics in real online levels.
Though, it’s not entirely a PvP risk game. Players can set up small deployable bases on each level of a train, giving them a location to drop a safe zone, build walls and doors, and create small bases whilst on these levels.
Think of them like little outposts you’d build while travelling in other survival games. You can block off little corridors in the tunnels, or take up shelter in the bathroom or market and cut areas off, so you can feel safe and secure.
These can all be crafted using metals and plastics you find on levels or bring in during your raids. When they are down, you can respawn a few times, so it’s not all extraction, but it gives those survival experience respawns you can deploy. Think of it akin to a bedroll on something like Conan before that big dungeon you find.
We got a chance to play with the devs, here’s what they described it as
We also got a chance to play the game with Red Rover staff, and get a taste of the game. If you’re a veteran of the survival genre but don’t have the time, it’s worth a try.
Gone are the problems of being offline raided, as your base isn’t accessible as long as someone who doesn’t live on your train is online. There’s a gameplay choice that incentivizes big leaderboards and massive trains for major builds.
Gone also are the days of dominating your local server, as instanced trains allow players to essentially become the bigger fish against all the other players who make it to that point. This can lead to some very extreme gameplay moments where players need to maintain a lot of fuel cores, which can be produced and acquired at higher-tier train levels.
These bases can also get raided by other big trains for those epic war-like levels of guilds versus guilds. It feels similar to those end game maps in games like Once Human PvP servers, Rust, and more.
For those not planning on engaging in epic warfare, you can also be far more relaxed and have smaller Daggers, and just go on the little raids on Titans. Instead, players can consider Dagger battles, giving immersive Sea of Thieves-like vibes, exchanging two passing Daggers, where you could maybe trade or fight each other.
All in all, it seems like there’s no time like the present to give Enginefall a try if you’re a vet of PvP survival games, or looking for a new PvP fix. The game is set to launch later in 2026, so you likely won’t have to wait long from the demo to its upcoming release.
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