Power through hordes of zombies, '90s arcade style, in this on-rails survival horror shooter.
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NOTE: Please be aware the original Railbreak title may be removed from individual direct sale, or transitioned to a legacy product in or around September 2026 on specific platforms in specific cases where it makes sense. It is being replaced by Railbreak DX where supported which is designed to be supported long-term as an expanded experience alongside new graphics, polish, gameplay, and much more. The original legacy Railbreak will not be updated going forward.
It's Saturday night in Cypress Ridge which means the city is in ruins, hordes of flesh eating undead are on the prowl, and you have the arcade all to yourself! Grab your lightgun (or keyboard, mouse, or gamepad), select your survivor, and blast your way to safety as the city burns around you in this on-rails survival horror shooter. Oh, and don't forget to bring a friend for zombie fodder, er, we mean multiplayer experience!
Railbreak melds a classic on-rails arcade experience with the cutting edge Unreal Engine 5. In this prelude to Outbreak: Shades of Horror, you'll get an opportunity to see the sights and sounds of Cypress Ridge and get chomped on by a zombie or four! Face the city alone, or bring a friend along with optional 2-player co-op supported across the entire game
Featuring a wide cast of survivors each with their own loadouts and traits, you'll find plenty of replayability in this absurd take of a survival horror game in a survival horror game. A full story mode experience awaits across six scenarios. Bonus modes include Score Attack, and the endless Onslaught Mode that keeps ratcheting up the difficulty until the undead finally seal your fate, as well as Boss Rush, the Shoutout Shootout, and the rogue-like semi-procedurally generated Glitch Gauntlet where anything can happen!
Crack open your piggy bank, snag a fizzy soda, and take a trip back to the 1990’s arcade.
Features:
Next-generation arcade experience with cutting edge graphics powered by Unreal Engine 5.
Multiple ways to face the undead - Story Mode, Score Attack, Onslaught Mode, Boss Rush, Glitch Gauntlet and Shoutout Shootout!
8 unique survivors to unlock with their own unique loadouts and perks!
First class support for mouse, keyboard, gamepads, and the Sinden Lightgun.
Unpredictable glitch system that dynamically changes game mechanics in real-time to keep you on your toes!
Unique and thrilling cast of special infected and glitched boss creatures that hunt you across Cypress Ridge in epic fights for survival.
Extreme gore and dismemberment as you tear apart the undead with a massive arsenal of powerful weapons.
The cheesiest dialogue and voice acting ever featured in an on-rails shooter.
Optional 2-player co-op across the entire game.
Score tracking across every mode in the game!
Sums Steam only; Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $4.99−75% | 39reviews | 79% | — | $3.4K |
| $19.99 | 71ratings | 68% | — | not modelled | |
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It's really not that good. I'm a sucker for rail shooter games, but this is just not it. I played two levels and was done with it. The animations aren't good, the game feels janky and buggy, and even with a bunch of stuff happening on screen, it's boring. I'd have gotten a refund if I hadn't gotten this in a bundle. Save your money for one of the many other rail shooters that are actually fun.
A fantastic one-man-developed light-gun shooter that's an amazing homage, or "clone", of the House of The Dead series. It's set in the Outbreak universe, a series of Resident Evil clone games (And even a Dino Crisis clone game!). It has all the big staples of House Of The Dead, full limb and head damage decapitations, choices of red or green blood (And a lot of other colors too!), saving civilians from zombies, and EXTREMELY bad voice acting and dialogue. It's short and sweet, as light gun games are intended to be, although it takes a tiny bit longer than a typical light gun games campaign length, and it has extra modes to add to longevity. It's a lot of fun blasting zombies to pieces. I would honestly argue that this is the best game Dead Drop Studios has ever made. It's jank for sure, but it feels a lot less jank than his previous games, it's got nice lighting, colors, and models, probably due to running on Unreal Engine 5 instead of unity, so while it's not a huge looker, it looks a million times better than his previous games. I did encounter a few bugs that were not a huge problem, and you can't blast the sound on the game because the voice acting recordings are both really low sound quality and extremely loud, but overall from a technical standpoint its solid. The developer also said soon a patch will be made to allow players to cache all shaders on the main menu instead of as you play to increase performance, which I'm highly thankful for. If I had any complaints on the gameplay side, it would only be that the running paths for saving civilians are an annoyance, as they will often run out of a zombie horde and then turn around and run back into the horde, which can easily cause a civilians death when your shooting at the horde to save that moron. As a big light gun fan, this is definitely one of the better ones on steam, and thankfully it's a finished game, not an early access title, as a few light-gun games on steam started in early access and were then abandoned, this is not one of them. I can definitely recommend buying this at it's full price. There just isn't that many light gun games on steam and this is definitely one of the better ones on this platform. Is it AAA or even AA worthy? or super high quality and super polished? Of course not. But it's insanely fun and it's a great game and the fact it was only made by one man makes it even more impressive. Behold... RAILBREAK!
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 30 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
| $89.99 |
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| $19.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 39 reviews with recorded playtime.
Played with a Blamcon light gun: 8/10 Engaging campaign, well realized environments, and lots of alternate game modes. This is a really good game. I would rate it higher but it's a big 'jerky'? at times. If you play it you'll see what I mean. That being said I think this is a great on-rails light gun game with a lot to offer.
this game feels like it was made in 3 days
Railbreak is a bast, great homage to old light gun games, but is different enough to be its own thing. Great replayability.
Gameplay Impressions: https://youtu.be/kzqq_2t9CrE I found this to be a very fun rail shooter. It took some gettin' used to when it came to not goin'/lookin' where I'd want to. Havent played many games in this genre. I liked the somewhat cheesy/tongue in cheek dialogue.I playthrough the story up to act 4 I believe. I think a bug occurred durin' this act at the end of linked video. The character wouldnt move anywhere. So I was stuck. Besides that issue the game was solid. 20 bucks may be a bit steep but it does give ya a biut to work with int he foorm of unlockin' characters and playin' other modes.
Simple arcade light gun style shooter. Fun to just jump in and shoot stuff. has some interesting mechanics, multiple characters, several modes. The one thing I will note, is it doesn't seem to support PS5 controller well. The fre button wouldn't work for me until I remapped it in the steam controller to have the shoulder buttons be the mouse buttons, but worked fine after that.
This game is by far the BEST rail shooter style game on Steam, and I have had a blast playing it. It pairs so nicely with the Sinden USB Lightgun, but can easily be played with a mouse and keyboard. The story mode on this game is challenging, intense, and funny with the most hilarious lines of comedy during game play. In short, this game is a must have for lightgun game players period. Although I received this game through a code to test for bugs for the developers, this is not a paid review. I would gladly have paid for this game myself and this in no way affected how I reviewed the game.
This game is a lot of fun and works with the Retroshooter RS3 reapers with minimal effort. I'd say it's light gun compatible.
frenzied funny on rails shooter. very different and new feeling but reminds me of older games. Cant wait for the VR version and to try with a light gun. Backer for the VR version that has been delayed.
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