Fogpiercer

Fogpiercer is a turn-based tactical game about leading a train through a bandit-infested world as a deadly fog closes in. You assemble your train to set your starting deck, choose a route through the regions ahead and fight toward the edge of the fog, where the future of humanity rests in your hands.

Build your train

Choose locomotives, carriages and drivers to determine which cards and abilities are available during a run. Gather resources as you travel to buy or upgrade carriages, adding tactical tools to your deck. With over 170 cards featuring different status effects, support capabilities and damage outputs, you can build around your preferred approach and uncover combinations with their own risks and opportunities. Between runs, metaprogression unlocks more locomotives, drivers and carriages, and lets you upgrade favorites to gain additional cards.

Tactical battles

Battles use a limited number of action points per turn, so you must plan the order of your moves while facing enemies that outnumber and surround you. Positioning, synergies and chain reactions help turn the odds: push vehicles off cliffs or into one another, force them into environmental hazards, or trick them into attacking each other as they telegraph their moves. For example, Coal and an Artillery Shot can send an enemy onto the tracks to be crushed by your train; an artillery strike can also destroy a leading vehicle and send it tumbling backward into those behind it. Hacking cards can help line up more vehicles for such a chain reaction.

You can choose how to confront enemy convoys: use a minigun’s spread and firepower, knock pursuing vehicles off course with artillery, or shield your train and ram your foes. Other tools include hackers that deploy decoys or take control of enemy vehicles, and cranes that push them around the battlefield. Enemies grow more varied as you travel, with distinct weapons, traits, strengths and weaknesses. Bandit leaders and regional bosses add further challenges; bosses are special characters with their own backstories and abilities.

Choose your route

Travel from region to region, choosing paths based on each area’s modifiers and rewards. Branching routes offer different risks and rewards at each stop, from battlefields to friendly waystations where you can repair and upgrade your train. Chop shops and depots let you repair your locomotive and carriages, upgrade them to unlock cards, or buy and sell carriages to change your deck. Random encounters can offer rare opportunities along the way.

Battlefields vary in their conditions. An ally may come to your aid, limited space may make it harder to maneuver around enemies, or a cliffside may provide a persistent hazard to use against them. Many battlefields combine factors that help or hinder your advance, and can reward you with cards, modifiers and scrap resources for the journey ahead.