Fogpiercer is a deckbuilder roguelite in which you build and upgrade your train to build your deck, fight off bandits on a square grid using unique carriage cards. Your final deck will depend on the decisions you make in the run.
Moments Of Genius
Positioning is key and if you play your cards right, you can get the enemies to attack each other, push them out of the way or even place them right into your path and crush them underneath your wheels!Upgrade Your Train, Make Your Deck Powerful
Your train is your deck, each carriage holds unique cards and as your upgrade them, new cards get added to your deck ready to be used. Carriages have synergy cards too, which get activated when both carriages reach max level.Make Tactical Decisions On the Map
Your journey is not an easy one. To get to the final destination of your train, you’ll have to make the right choices, sometimes risk making the wrong ones. As your understanding of the game deepens, so will the ideas of what can be done when deciding where to go next.Stations That Let You Grow
Get your train to a station so that you can heal up or buy a new carriage. Grow stronger as you progress through your run or rebuild your machine after a tough fight.Made By People That Love Trains
We’re a tiny team and each of us has a special place in their heart reserved for trains, having grown up in Europe, trains were always a part of our lives, taking them to get to school, work or just to travel on rainy Mondays. We’re making this game to connect meaningful, deep mechanics with a theme that’s dear to us.
Demo update #1
We've been super fortunate, and people have created youtube content playing Fogpiercer. To all of you, but also to our Discord community, we owe a massive thanks!
The videos and feedback we're receiving are a source of inspiration and data, helping us make Fogpiercer into an even better game. Here's a couple of those!
https://youtu.be/3iAVF2ozeR8?si=h8N9Dkr-bRLMRPEE
https://youtu.be/hP1dtB_iWSI?si=sDxmQ9pQHN6fYXq5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPOEnlLhpGM
Never thought this was going to happen, honestly. In terms of spotaneous combustion theories, this is pretty close. If you visit youtube you can find numerous videos from our speedrunners already, and in addition to that there's an official Speedrun.com page for Fogpiercer Demo now as well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubhymOBZgiE
Fogpiercer Demo on Speedrun.com
The changelog is fairly extensive, but also shows just how much we've done since launching the demo, if you want a more detailed look into the changelog, feel free to visit our discord (and the #Changelog channel).
Most notable of these changes is going to be the rework of the tutorial system. We've noticed that few players come to grasp the coolest strategies of the game, and we've aimed at making them more obvious right from the get go, in the tutorial!
unit side panel can now be turned off by pressing a grid cell that does not have a unit a couple of missing translation strings that were still hardcoded "Magenta" colour to accessibility settings it was just purple, but then it started looking a little different
"Speedrun Statistics" which appear in the pause menu time of the run (excluding game pauses and initial screen) number of turns taken
loading screen also a setting for auto accepting the end state of the loading screen this implements asynchronous loading
new shortcuts! Z/C move the train back and forward F to end turn / F to choose M to toggle the map
number of copies of a card in the Unit Side Panel number of player turns taken in the "Run Over" screen Weighted random when modules are being offered to the player Each boss will now have a station right after it Stronger buggies have burn resist Cannon heavy has stun resist top panel for train overview now also has buttons as shortcuts for moving the train top panel for train overview shows an icon when a carriage can be upgraded in a station steam wishlist and "Discussions" links to the top right corner in the main menu and pause menu returning back to a station from the map view is now possible warning label to the "main menu" return option in the pause menu that warns the player of losing run progress ability to change animation speed a lower default for 3D scaling on the steam deck overall number of activated modules in the modules screen overall number of activated cards in the cards screen chop shop cards now also show the number of copies that will be added to the deck Demo / Playtest windows now have their correct respective names Malfunction does not trigger if disabled animation speed also influences the slow-mo amount save slots! minigun to the main menu! "missions" system at the moment only used in the tutorial, we'll expand on it in the future enemy waves?
setting to turn off shadows [/list]
further tweaks of fight progression for the first part of the map, mainly focusing on probabilities weighted random of enemy kinds and support unit chances
tweaked probabilities of enemies in the second map fights malfunction cards now wait for env hazards to resolve enemy turn now waits for malfunction cards to resolve Game Over screen uses the game scene loading as the rest of the game (the async loader) Player XP amounts got lowered, enjoy slightly faster levelling! Modules in Tier 1 are unlocked by default for new players can be disabled
Cards in Tier 1 are unlocked by default for new player can be disabled
Meta progression Modules and Cards got a face-lift Chop shop - shop UI got a face lift too! station bonuses no longer overlay shop UI
Animation speed has been changed to having 5 pre-set options SLOWEST, SLOW, NORMAL, FAST, FASTEST
Fight Back the enemy that destroyed the carriage, is insta-killed
Silver Tongue 30% discount!
Shield Carriage Shield Trick
[list] 1x in deck
Panzer Dome Cost Up + AP Cost 1
Shield Revenge new pattern and AP Cost 1
Sheild Siphon the same but +1 shield
[/list]Artillery Carriage Iron Rain - Exhaust
card text and effect position camera animation when leaving the map is faster shop items leave an empty border when bought unavailable shop items (no more modules/cards) are visualised revamped visual style stronger colours, some may need tweaking, let us know! lots of colours changes all around, we'll be iterating
train travel speed is BACK! though with saner limits
"Money" -> "Scraps" reworded most cards and modules, to ensure a same style of writing Hand Throw discard hand, draw as many cards as were discarded
The title below the game's logo now aligns with the version of the game (Playtest, Demo) Loading screen has a game logo progress texture instead of Coal Pusher illustration and it always reaches 100% now too!
hide AP cost and number of copies of cards that are locked redesigned the enemy list panel on the right of the screen trees and rocks no longer float above the ground improved visuals of stations Tutorial redesigned Improved performance by selectively casting shadows only where necessary Changed the icon on negative module of Extra Move Cost The player gets free scraps in the tutorial to ensure that upgrades and a new carriage can be bought [/list]
one cannot endlessly reroll modules anymore upgrading a carriage and picking a card no longer crashes the game map can only be toggled using the M shortcut when it's available, preventing a softlock hitting enter after choosing a reward no longer triggers it again card arrow line should no longer be "red" previously used malfunction cards are no longer hidden a missing card in the chop shop when the player no longer has any rare/epics available grid annotations render over cards no more! max health card wording default unit movement speed is back to its original value instant cards can no longer be spam activated brake and move forward sounds were flipped choppy particles have been tweaked, likely an engine error translations for new effects grid annotations only turn on when set so in the settings all default modules now turn on properly preview map no longer has a button to return to the station (broke things) audio low-health is now correctly reset even when Malfunction is in hand when the fight ends Station should now always be spawned at a correct location, so regardless of the train and animation speed the train will stop at the right place Malfunction can now be always removed Colours now get initialised properly correct info text for spikes pause menu now renders above everything else at all times stations no longer randomly spawn as props [/list]
That's it for this update! The build is now live, let us know what you thought of the changes, cheers!
Releasing the demo was wild! We have a playtest version of the game that you can get on our discord, that's a version of the game where we push updates first, and only then do they make it into the demo.
We've been busy improving the game from the get go, at first pushing daily updates, and afterwards (once things stabilized, and critical issues were fixed) moved on to weekly updates.
This update article looks at what's been happening behind the closed doors, although they're pretty open, our discord is a place where you can chat with us any time!
Enough preface, let's dive right into it!
Youtube videos
We've been super fortunate, and people have created youtube content playing Fogpiercer. To all of you, but also to our Discord community, we owe a massive thanks!
The videos and feedback we're receiving are a source of inspiration and data, helping us make Fogpiercer into an even better game. Here's a couple of those!
https://youtu.be/3iAVF2ozeR8?si=h8N9Dkr-bRLMRPEE
https://youtu.be/hP1dtB_iWSI?si=sDxmQ9pQHN6fYXq5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPOEnlLhpGM
Speedrunning
Never thought this was going to happen, honestly. In terms of spotaneous combustion theories, this is pretty close. If you visit youtube you can find numerous videos from our speedrunners already, and in addition to that there's an official Speedrun.com page for Fogpiercer Demo now as well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubhymOBZgiE
Fogpiercer Demo on Speedrun.com
Changelog
The changelog is fairly extensive, but also shows just how much we've done since launching the demo, if you want a more detailed look into the changelog, feel free to visit our discord (and the #Changelog channel).
Most notable of these changes is going to be the rework of the tutorial system. We've noticed that few players come to grasp the coolest strategies of the game, and we've aimed at making them more obvious right from the get go, in the tutorial!
Added
- different colour for enemy turn intent that has an effect
[list] - this also adds a colour setting under the accessibility tab
- i.e. Lojzo's carriage disable attack
Changed
- improved the settings popup
[list] - added a super quick animation when it's turned on and off
[list]
Fixed
- Right Mouse Button (RMB) no longer shows intent details and it's also used to cancel an active card
- Station UI not appearing when it should if the player is in map preview when entering a station
- Underlying system for bonuses, this fixes the "Mirage Mystery" module and prevent similar issues in the future
- Final damage that destroys a carriage not being registered in run stats
- Choosing a module after a "Module Van" fight before all modules have initialised, no longer crashes the game
- multiples of the same module can no longer appear
- visual of the unit position didn't always correctly update
- pressing enter when choosing upgrade cards no longer breaks UI / crashes the game
[list] - a better fix is incoming! we need to add the ability for cards to be focused
That's it for this update! The build is now live, let us know what you thought of the changes, cheers!
[ 2025-04-22 12:01:52 CET ] [Original Post]
Minimum Setup
- OS: Fedora 25. Ubuntu 16.04. SteamOS. Mint 18
- Processor: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating systemMemory: 6 GB RAM
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 900 series or similar
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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