The Final Station

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 28 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 4 out of 28
  3. Negative: 5 out of 28

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  1. GBG_Jason
    Feb 23, 2018
    8
    A world is at its end, a single train travels the Earth, and an unknown threat appears out of nowhere. You are the conductor of the train. You are to travel the world. You are the last hope for humanity. Are you up to the challenge? Is it worth it?

    The Final Station starts off simple enough: you wake up and head to work through a 2D side scrolling town. On the way you can talk to    A world is at its end, a single train travels the Earth, and an unknown threat appears out of nowhere. You are the conductor of the train. You are to travel the world. You are the last hope for humanity. Are you up to the challenge? Is it worth it?

    The Final Station starts off simple enough: you wake up and head to work through a 2D side scrolling town. On the way you can talk to citizens, pick up items, and read notes. When you finally set out for your next town on the train, you’ll have a passenger that has a life and hunger meter. The train itself has a few things you can interact with, including med kits and food for passengers. You’ll find yourself speaking with people on an IM type of service, fixing the electricity, keeping the train from overheating, and more as you progress.

    Each stop you make will require you to explore the area to find the security code to progress. The train gets locked into a barrier and can only be released with the security code. At first it’s a simple task of finding it within a locker or having someone print it out. But it soon becomes a dangerous endeavor as you go up against the unknown silhouettes that are out for blood.

    The game is broken into two different types of gameplay: town exploration and train traversal. The majority of the experience will take place in the exploration aspect, where you encouter a lot the story. Each building is blacked out until you open a door, lighting the room it’s connected to. Maybe there are people in it, maybe it’s empty, or maybe you get jumped. There’s only one way to find out. Sadly, when you are low on life and you do get killed from a surprise attack, the checkpoint system will almost always set you back where you were. Not entirely, but it creates an expectation for fights to turn out a certain way. If you use too much ammo you may choose to die so you can optimize the way you survive the battle.

    The game holds a decent amount of backstory, whether you find it by reading or simply taking in the scenes you come across in town. The sweeping landscapes while going from town to town also tells a story, as you’ll see war torn battlefields and peaceful lands lit up by fights at night. For being a pretty short experience, it does a great job of building the world around the player.

    While fights get harder as you progress with different enemy types changing the way you approach battles, so does the train portion of the game become more intense and stressful. As the conductor it is in your best interest to get all the passengers to their destination as you are paid for each delivery, allowing you to buy better gear, as well as medkits and food to help with keeping the passengers alive to get the money to… you get the idea. As more obstacles are added, the harder it is to keep everything in working order. On top of that, passengers on the train are constantly talking, giving more insight into the world. While managing passengers and the train, you’ll have to decide on what is important, and what is worth doing.

    A sweet, succinct experience that gets a bit repetitive near the end, but well worth the travel expenses. The Final Station was something I didn’t expect to like as much as I did. Between the world building and the sporadic train gameplay, this is a train you don’t want leaving you at the station.    … Expand
  2. DXCRAZY32
    Apr 21, 2018
    8
    Very nice game , deep story , and it motivate you to try and understand it by yourself
  3. appledinger
    Jun 13, 2019
    6
    There's an interesting story going on in this game and it really rewards you for paying close attention. You'll see the kind of twisted dark storyline behind the scenes if you do, and most stories that try this kind of thing don't execute as well.

    The downside is the gameplay is boring and kind of garbage.
  4. Meeleepit
    Jan 14, 2020
    8
    So, it got this on special and i'm not a fan of these types of games but WHOA it blew my mind.

    The story is weird and exiting,planning on how to enter a room and fight off infected people led to an even better experience. Deciding on who to save on your train was also fun. What i really loved about the story i was pulled into it, fighting to survive and just kept going on forward.    So, it got this on special and i'm not a fan of these types of games but WHOA it blew my mind.

    The story is weird and exiting,planning on how to enter a room and fight off infected people led to an even better experience.

    Deciding on who to save on your train was also fun.

    What i really loved about the story i was pulled into it, fighting to survive and just kept going on forward. The end was sad but its a welcome change to normal scripts of hero saving the day.

    Bonus is free DLC and this was about 4 hours long. This time in a american muscle car.

    This is a must play    … Expand
  5. jandleslapper
    Mar 22, 2021
    4
    The game starts out well enough with a narrative ellipse, as well as good enviromental storytelling. Unfortunately the gameplay is fairly unrewarding, when riding the train you have an opportunity to listen to the dialogue of characters you have picked up along your travels; except you dont because you need to manage the train by completing dull chores while also making sure charactersThe game starts out well enough with a narrative ellipse, as well as good enviromental storytelling. Unfortunately the gameplay is fairly unrewarding, when riding the train you have an opportunity to listen to the dialogue of characters you have picked up along your travels; except you dont because you need to manage the train by completing dull chores while also making sure characters dont die from injuries or hunger (if you fail to keep a passenger fed you will find them in a pool of their own blood?). The narrative is told in snippets through npc's and notes, this starts off strong but very quickly the note format becomes:
    I am annoyed/worried about this person lately, who has been reclusive or acting odd
    tell me about it
    [no reply]
    are you there?
    [implication person has been killed by said zombified person}
    This could be fine but, atleast on the switch, the aiming is horrible, the levels quickly become linear, and the survival mechanics are really underdeveloped. There is no inventory management, there is no point to the variety of items you pick up because it all amounts to money, stuff to make medical kits, stuff to make bullets, which you then need to spend time producing while on the train trying to listen to the npc's. In sum there is an interesting world here but a vexing game to play.    … Expand
  6. Ragenx12
    Jan 28, 2023
    3
    Me gusta este titulo, lo jugue en pc hace tiempo sin problemas la verdad y me hacia ilusión tenerlo en mi NIntendo Switch (consola que amo) pero nose si solo me ha ocurrido a mi, pero el juego se traba y no empieza. Lo tengo en formado digital, juego un poco, me salgo y cuando vuelvo a querer jugar no inicia, es con el único juego que me sucede y no es hasta que de la nada el juego vuelveMe gusta este titulo, lo jugue en pc hace tiempo sin problemas la verdad y me hacia ilusión tenerlo en mi NIntendo Switch (consola que amo) pero nose si solo me ha ocurrido a mi, pero el juego se traba y no empieza. Lo tengo en formado digital, juego un poco, me salgo y cuando vuelvo a querer jugar no inicia, es con el único juego que me sucede y no es hasta que de la nada el juego vuelve a cargar una vez cada siglo. He reiniciado la consola, la he actualizado, tengo la ultima versión del juego y me sigue sucediendo. No se porque me sucede la verdad y solo por eso le doy un 3, realmente el titulo me parece una maravilla, es visualmente bonito y jugablemente adictivo, pero en mis condiciones no puedo darle una mejor nota :/… Expand

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Nintendo Insider
    Jun 25, 2018
    80
    As a vehicle for story, The Final Station is a tremendous effort which keeps you wondering as you piece together the snippets of story and while the combat and exploration suffices, it doesn’t live up to the narrative the developers deliver. Together, they make for a great experience, with a cryptic flair in the style of Twin Peaks, which leads to a superb set of final moments, leaving you wanting more and delivering with the extra content in the main menu
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  2. Nintenderos
    Mar 25, 2018
    82
    An indie surprise in the catalog of the eShop, highly recommended if you like the zombie genre. Allow yourself to be transported by its silent and decadent atmosphere: explore, drive your train and let yourself be trapped by dangerous creatures of this magnificent world created by Do My Best Games.
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  3. NintendoWorldReport
    Mar 7, 2018
    85
    The thing with The Final Station is that it knows what it wants to be. This proud survival game mixes the eerie with action smoothly, and I couldn't help to be impressed. While it is more linear than I would have liked, it delivers on a thrilling experience that I can't get enough of. The pixelated style and its gameplay are some of the smoothest seen on the platform, and it is hard to pull yourself away just a tiny bit. The Final Station is an intriguing journey through and through.
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