Unrailed 2 Adds the Towcomotive, a Rope-Bound Engine With a Cross-Play Catch
The engine tethers the crew and boosts attached wagons, but choosing it disables cross-play until it reaches consoles.
Unrailed 2: Back on Track has added the Towcomotive, an engine that ropes every player to the train and supercharges its attached wagons. The crew can slow it down by pulling backward together. Update v-1003-1990541 also adds a character, new score checkpoints, cosmetic packs, and a range of fixes.
The Towcomotive builds on the rope mechanic tested as the Experimental Rope Engine in a September 17 experimental build. That test tied players to the locomotive and made their spacing affect train speed. The engine now joins the lineup under its new name, with attached wagons receiving a boost.
There is a cross-play limitation for groups with console players. Indoor Astronaut’s Steam announcement notes that the Towcomotive is not on consoles yet, so selecting it disables cross-play. Groups that want to play with console friends will need to choose another engine and make sure cross-play is enabled.
The update also adds Bug to the character roster and improves the handbook with milk effects for milkable NPCs. In the handbook example, the frog’s milk effect is 5x Torch.
Endless runs now upload scores after the first biome and the first full round of biomes, just before players reach a biome for the second time. Those First Biome and First Round sections had already appeared in the September 21 experimental build.
Two optional cosmetic packs are now available: On-Board Bistro and the Fun n’Games Item Pack. Indoor Astronaut notes that the game already includes 36 characters and 42 wearable items, and that these packs are cosmetic only.
Other adjustments affect Time Mode rewards and endgame speed. Extension rewards now depend on the seed and engine, with task rewards intended to stay consistent at the same station, though they can still vary with the train and player count. The lab weight and button move to the right of the station, and endgame speed continues to increase by 3% per station instead of stopping at a linear cap. The update also fixes a task timer that failed to reset and maps that could overwrite cartridges from completed runs.
The changelog includes a fix for bots walking too far to gather resources, memory leak fixes, and a map-generation freeze fix, along with other potential memory-related crash fixes. The .NET 10 build and automatic Vulkan selection for modern AMD GPUs had already appeared in the July 29 experimental build. This update also lists improved crash reporting and a fix for a likely cause of the most common crash in compatibility graphics mode.
Unrailed 2: Back on Track v-1003-1990541 Patch Notes
- New: Towcomotive engine added
- New: Highscores include now a First Biome and First Round section for Endless
- New: Bug Character added
- New: Fun n’Games Item Pack (Cosmetic DLC)
- New: On-Board Bistro (Cosmetic DLC)
Balance
- Balance: In time mode, the extension rewards are now only dependend on the seed and engine. The i-th task at the k-th station should now always give the same extension (Tasks may still differ based on the train and number of players though)
- Balance: Lab weight and button are now placed right of the station
- Balance: The speed increase used to be capped to a linear function (in stations) at some point. Now it still increases in the endgame but slowly (3% per station)
General
- Improvement: UI improvements like adding the milk effect to the handbook
- Bug fix: In time mode, “hold tools max x seconds” task didn’t reset the timer when spawned
- Bug fix: In time mode, new maps could overwrite cartridges on the ending of old maps
Bot
- Bug fix: Bot walks far to get ressources fixed
Stability
- Improvement: We’re building now with .NET 10 (instead of 8) which gives a small performance boost and fixes some potential issues
- Improvement: Modern AMD GPUs now use the faster, more stable Vulkan renderer automatically.
- Improvement: Improved crash reporting
- Bug fix: Many memory leak fixes
- Freeze fix: Mapgen freeze fix
- Crash fix: Some potential crash fixes related to memory
- Crash fix: Fixed a likely cause of the most common crash in compatibility graphics mode.
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Unrailed 2: Back on Track
Developed by Indoor Astronaut
Unrailed is back on track with more co-op railroad construction chaos! Choose your path in a new world packed with bold biomes and bosses. Permanently upgrade your character and engines, even create and share your own levels - just don‘t let your train derail!
- Genre Simulator, Indie, Arcade
- Platforms Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Nintendo Switch
- Perspective Bird view / Isometric
- Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
- Release June 11, 2026
- Publisher Indoor Astronaut
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