Dead West Railway v1.12.0

New in this version

• Couch co-op: a second rider can join on the same screen with their own controller. Hold START at the title to call them in. Each rider has their own name, past, kit panels and rumble. When you wander apart, the screen splits along an angled seam that turns to follow you.
• Drop-in riders: with drop-in on, riders can join or leave a run already under way. They ride in on horseback and leap aboard, and wave goodbye when they step off.
• Controllers:
  • The aim goes straight to where the right stick points.
  • The game, and the launcher, tell you how to wake a controller it can't see yet.
• Upstairs and underground: hotels have an upstairs of guest rooms, and mines go three levels down, worse the deeper you go.
• Towns:
  • A building's lamps are lit after dark only when someone lives or works there.
  • When a thunderstorm comes in, townsfolk and guards go indoors until it passes.
  • A church is a sanctuary: the undead won't step inside.
  • A saloon's bartender pours beer and whiskey. A drink dulls the blows you take, but it throws your aim until it wears off.
• Enemies: outlaws and the dead fight each other when they meet. Outlaws on fresh horses can catch a train at full steam and jump aboard.
• On the road: roadside stops have more to see, and riders are shown drinking, eating and bandaging when they use what they carry.
• Weapons: every gun hits harder, the shotguns and rifles by about 30%. The Revolver reloads faster, and sprints last a fifth longer.
• New riders start with enough bonds to buy one past.
• Steady frames (on by default): when the frame rate drops, the heaviest graphics effects ease off, and they come back once it recovers.
• Shops have a new door bell and purchase jingle, without the harsh high notes.
• Each past has its own take on the emotes.

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System	File
Windows 10 or 11	Dead-West-Railway-Setup.exe
macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Dead-West-Railway.dmg
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS	dead-west-railway_amd64.deb
Linux: any other distribution	Dead-West-Railway.AppImage

Windows and macOS ask you to confirm the first time you open the game. The steps are in the install guide.

Dead West Railway v1.11.0

New in this version

• The Picture Show: the Picture Show on the platform now plays your train's past runs as a puppet show, each rider played as themselves. It keeps a train's runs until the train goes back to the shed. After a run ends, you go straight to the report.
• Playing with a controller:
  • L2 aims down the sights, like the right mouse button.
  • Both sticks are smoother.
  • In menus, the D-pad reaches every control, and the left stick moves a free pointer.
  • An on-screen keyboard lets you type your name and a ticket, and a list lets you pick the line.
• Rumble: you feel the locomotive's drivers through the deck, each hoofbeat in step with your horse's stride, and every shot and hit more sharply.
• Smoother motion: frames are drawn evenly while the view pans, the train moves more smoothly, and night lighting on Classic graphics is faster.
• Full screen on a Mac: true full screen, either around the notch or below it, with the pointer kept in the window while you ride.
• Weapons:
  • Every gun reloads in about two thirds of the time it took before.
  • The Shotgun hits up to 60% harder up close.
• Carrying: you can sprint while carrying something heavy. It's as fast as walking empty-handed.
• Melee: clicking a blade quickly no longer drops swings.

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System	File
Windows 10 or 11	Dead-West-Railway-Setup.exe
macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Dead-West-Railway.dmg
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS	dead-west-railway_amd64.deb
Linux: any other distribution	Dead-West-Railway.AppImage

Windows and macOS ask you to confirm the first time you open the game. The steps are in the install guide.

Dead West Railway v1.10.0

New in this version

• Weapons carried, not brandished: when you aren't using it, each kind of weapon is carried its own way: tools and swords over the shoulder, pistols and knives low in the hand, rifles and heavy guns at the hip, spears like a staff, the torch held high, fists up in a guard. It comes up when you aim, fire or swing.
• The banjo and the guitar: slung across the front, ready to play, and played with a hard downstroke and a nod on every note, from every side.
• Everyone turns: enemies, creatures and townsfolk now face toward you and away from you the way riders do, and a gunman facing you aims straight at you.
• Horses from the front and behind, with their riders astride, leaning into the gallop. The HUD says MOUNTED while you ride.
• Eye trails: on the High graphics preset, the glowing eyes of the dead leave streaks of light behind them at night.
• Every rider holds every weapon: each past can carry, aim and swing whatever is in hand.

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System	File
Windows 10 or 11	Dead-West-Railway-Setup.exe
macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Dead-West-Railway.dmg
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS	dead-west-railway_amd64.deb
Linux: any other distribution	Dead-West-Railway.AppImage

Windows and macOS ask you to confirm the first time you open the game. The steps are in the install guide.

Dead West Railway v1.9.3

New in this version

• Runs cooler: the game works the graphics chip and processor much less, especially on high-refresh laptop screens, where it now only draws a new frame when something on screen has moved.
• Effects resolution: a new slider in Options → Graphics sets how finely the Enhanced light, shadows and fog are drawn. Auto suits most screens.
• The yard, rearranged: the platform's places now sit beside the platform card, each named once, with a light when you point at one.
• On foot: the train's speed and distance show only while you're aboard.
• Cargo and kit: cargo stowed on a car shows again, and the starting gold bars and kit are set out on the right side of the train.
• Every mode plays by its own rules: many fixes across the modes, including Nightmare (now opened by a win on Normal, and harder), Permadeath, Free-for-All, Takeover, Frost Bite, Summer, the Show and the Ghost Train.

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System	File
Windows 10 or 11	Dead-West-Railway-Setup.exe
macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Dead-West-Railway.dmg
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS	dead-west-railway_amd64.deb
Linux: any other distribution	Dead-West-Railway.AppImage

Windows and macOS ask you to confirm the first time you open the game. The steps are in the install guide.

Dead West Railway v1.9.2

New in this version

• Names that fade: the riders' names show in the lobby and for the first few seconds of a run, then fade away. Put your crosshair on a rider to see their name again, or press N (or Options → Display → Rider names) to keep them on. A hurt teammate's health still shows over them.
• Signs, not floating names: buildings carry their names on painted signs, on the walls, on posts and inside on the back wall, instead of names hanging in the air.
• People in the towns: the sheriff at his desk with a prisoner in the cell, the storekeeper, the gunsmith, the doctor, the undertaker, the hotel clerk, the preacher, the blacksmith and the livery hand, each at work where a town still lives, standing guard where it's held, and dead at their posts where it has fallen.
• The saloon: a bar along the back wall, a piano player, and a stage with footlights and a dancer.

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System	File
Windows 10 or 11	Dead-West-Railway-Setup.exe
macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Dead-West-Railway.dmg
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS	dead-west-railway_amd64.deb
Linux: any other distribution	Dead-West-Railway.AppImage

Windows and macOS ask you to confirm the first time you open the game. The steps are in the install guide.

Dead West Railway v1.9.1

New in this version

• Towns stand against the Ticking Clock: when the dead reach a walled town, they rush its walls and its tower guns open up on them; the walls and towers come down one by one as the horde comes through, instead of vanishing the moment it arrives.
• Tower guns fire over the walls: a town's guns up on its towers now shoot over its own walls, in every mode.
• Quiet vaults: open a bank vault with its combination (the banker's card, or the wheel dialled right) and it opens quietly, with nothing coming. Blow it open with dynamite and everything nearby hears it.
• Combinations that fit: a combination card in your sack now counts, and no banker drops a card that fits no vault.

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Download the file for your system:

System	File
Windows 10 or 11	Dead-West-Railway-Setup.exe
macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Dead-West-Railway.dmg
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS	dead-west-railway_amd64.deb
Linux: any other distribution	Dead-West-Railway.AppImage

Windows and macOS ask you to confirm the first time you open the game. The steps are in the install guide.

Dead West Railway v1.9.0

New in this version

• A new look for the whole line: every land has ground of its own, with stones and plants in the world's colours; the towns, the places along the line, the trains, the title screen and the yard are all redrawn, and shadows fall the way the thing casting them stands.
• Every rider redrawn: the Drifter and the Cowboy come straight off the big screen, and almost every other past gets a costume of its own, from the Doctor, the Miner and the Priest to the Conductor, the Tycoon and the Ironclad. The monsters are darker than ever. Riders now look right from the front and from behind too.
• The dead, redrawn: every enemy in the line's own colours, and they move with weight: they stagger when hit, lunge, limp, and go down where they fall, leaving the body there.
• Smarter dead: packs hold the doorways, and outlaws duck out of your line of fire.
• Emotes hold their pose, with one thing moving.
• A new secret past to earn, with a gun nobody else can carry and a mastery track of his own.
• Many fixes across the game.

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System	File
Windows 10 or 11	Dead-West-Railway-Setup.exe
macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Dead-West-Railway.dmg
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS	dead-west-railway_amd64.deb
Linux: any other distribution	Dead-West-Railway.AppImage

Windows and macOS ask you to confirm the first time you open the game. The steps are in the install guide.

Dead West Railway v1.7.1

New in this version

• Every class's abilities: each class's mastery track now brings both of its abilities, on T and B. With a controller, click R3 for the first and hold it for the second; the D-pad's left is the map again.
• More in the shops: wooden stakes at the town churches, silver rounds at the gunsmiths, medkits at the doctors, and a hammer in some general stores.
• The dead find the gate: enemies inside a walled town block now come round by the gate or the door instead of standing at the wall.
• Stunned at a glance: a stunned enemy stands still under a ring of little stars.
• The Ticking Clock opens on a quiet spell, and the land tells you how long it lasts.
• The platform: the outlines under the riders in the lobby now sit on the boards, under their feet.
• Safer saves: your profile is written whole, with a backup kept beside it.
• Many fixes across every mode, class and shop, from a second full pass over the game.

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Download the file for your system:

System	File
Windows 10 or 11	Dead-West-Railway-Setup.exe
macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Dead-West-Railway.dmg
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS	dead-west-railway_amd64.deb
Linux: any other distribution	Dead-West-Railway.AppImage

Windows and macOS ask you to confirm the first time you open the game. The steps are in the install guide.

Dead West Railway v1.7.0

New in this version

• The line between the towns: a hundred new stretches of track, five to nine on every run: crossings, canyons, water, forest, strange ground and more, each with its own hazards and finds.
• Bigger towns, and new ones: towns are half again as big and built from their own materials, and new ones line the route, from a tent town and a placer camp to a salt works, a coal company town, a lumber town and a smelter.
• Outlaws on horseback: out on the open line, mounted outlaws ride up beside the cars and shoot at whoever is aboard. Full steam leaves them behind.
• The horde on the line: once a run, the dead stand thick across the track. At full steam the cowcatcher cuts through; any slower and they climb aboard.
• Instruments: a guitar, drums and a trumpet, and a banjo played note by note.
• Coal at speed: the firebox burns more coal the harder you run.
• Many fixes from a full pass over the game.

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Download the file for your system:

System	File
Windows 10 or 11	Dead-West-Railway-Setup.exe
macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Dead-West-Railway.dmg
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS	dead-west-railway_amd64.deb
Linux: any other distribution	Dead-West-Railway.AppImage

Windows and macOS ask you to confirm the first time you open the game. The steps are in the install guide.

Dead West Railway v1.6.0

New in this version

• A rebuilt last stretch: the end of the line and the crossing have been rebuilt, and a crossing ends differently.
• The posse moves on together: at the end of a run, any key or click is your vote to skip ahead, and Back to the platform is your vote to go back. The posse goes on once everyone has voted, and the screen shows who has. A rider who drops out doesn't hold the rest up. Riding alone, it goes on at once.
• Smoother nights: with Enhanced graphics, towns at night run much faster and look the same.
• No more stalls: no pause when you create a run, depart, cross the bridge or go back to the platform.
• A clearer cab: with fuel in your hands and the boiler full, the cab now tells you to set it down (Q) before you take the seat.
• The church: its windows shine white after dark.
• Update in place: the launcher's Update button installs this version for you.

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Download the file for your system:

System	File
Windows 10 or 11	Dead-West-Railway-Setup.exe
macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Dead-West-Railway.dmg
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS	dead-west-railway_amd64.deb
Linux: any other distribution	Dead-West-Railway.AppImage

Windows and macOS ask you to confirm the first time you open the game. The steps are in the install guide.