Keypress Express

Keypress Express is a desktop companion where your typing powers a hand-drawn train traveling across the countryside. It runs in a slim overlay at the bottom of your screen while you work, write, code or chat, and continues moving when you take a break. Typing speeds the train up to the limit of its engine; on quieter days, it travels more slowly.

Watch the countryside

Send your train on a trip and glance at it as it passes rolling hills, farms, forests, wildflower fields and small country stations. The overlay stays unobtrusive, fades when you move the mouse over it and can be hidden when you want a clear desktop. There are no timers demanding attention or penalties for stepping away.

Build your trains

Collect hand-drawn locomotives and rolling stock, combining engines with coal hoppers, oil tankers, log cars, passenger coaches, livestock cars and more. Each engine has its own balance of speed and hauling capacity. You start with a modest locomotive and one car, then can work toward faster engines and longer trains that stretch across your desktop.

Plan trade routes

Towns produce different goods, and markets value cargo differently. Load goods where supplies are plentiful and deliver them where demand is high to make each leg of a route profitable. Repeatedly flooding the same market reduces the value of its goods, so you can expand your railway, explore new destinations and build a trade network across the country.

Grow your railway

Complete trips and sell cargo, then reinvest your earnings in:

• New steam engines
• More cargo and passenger cars
• Longer, higher-capacity trains
• Station upgrades
• New routes and destinations

Your railway progresses at the pace of your workday: a busy afternoon can send your train racing across the map, while a quiet day makes for a slower journey.

Keyboard and privacy

The game counts how many keys you press, but not which keys you press. It does not read or record your words or collect the contents of anything you type.