Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains

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• Announcements·21 Aug 2026Official

  What We’re Currently Working On

  Hello, community!We’re very happy to welcome everyone who joined us during the Ukrainian Games Festival 2026, especially those who have already played the demo. We’d also love to see you on our Discord server!We’re currently working on improving nearly every aspect of the game. Today, we’d like to show you something that can already be demonstrated visually — the first improvements to the landscape.We’ll reveal the updated UI style a little later. For now, we’re sharing a few small previews of the future look of the game world. We have created special dioramas in the game engine that now serve as visual references as we update the procedural generation of locations.Unfortunately, we weren’t able to finish this work before the demo was released. However, the new landscape will be added in one of the upcoming updates, allowing you to see the results directly in the game.We hope the updated visuals will make the world of Cargo Protocol more distinctive and immerse you even deeper in its grim cyberpunk atmosphere.
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• Community & Events·17 Aug 2026Official

  Cargo Protocol at the Ukrainian Games Festival - Demo Available Now!

  Today, August 17, the Ukrainian Games Festival begins - and we are excited to announce that Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains is taking part!To celebrate the start of the festival, we are opening access to the Cargo Protocol demo. You can now lay your first tracks, launch trains, and try to build a profitable logistics network in a dark cyberpunk world.The demo is now available!Download the demo, play, and share your impressions with us. Your feedback will help us improve the balance, interface, and core gameplay mechanics before the full release.If you enjoy the demo, add Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains to your wishlist. This directly helps the game gain visibility on Steam and supports its continued development.Two more of our games at the festivalAlongside Cargo Protocol, two more of our projects are featured in the Ukrainian Games Festival. They are completely different in genre and atmosphere, but both are built around progression, experimenting with mechanics, and finding effective strategies.NocthraNocthra is a dark roguelike game with a retro-computer aesthetic, where you play as a Necromancer accidentally awakened by villagers after they destroyed an ancient seal.Defend yourself against waves of mortals, raise fallen enemies, and build your own army of the undead. Every corpse becomes a valuable resource: use it to summon a new servant or convert it into Dark Energy for powerful rituals.Unlock Sigils, strengthen your minions, reshape the battlefield, and create new combinations of abilities. The longer the siege lasts, the larger your army becomes - but the enemies never stop coming. Kill FactoryKill Factory is an incremental idler game about building an automated factory of destruction.Place deadly traps and combine weapons, elements, and physics-based mechanisms. Destroy waves of enemies, earn resources, and spend them on hundreds of upgrades that gradually make your factory faster, stronger, and more efficient.Experiment with different combinations, make...
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• Announcements·20 Jul 2026Official

  Announcing Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains

  Today, July 20, we are officially announcing the game that the Flat Lab team has been working on for the past six months. You may know us from Menace from the Deep, Timeloop: Sink Again Beach, or I Want to Believe. At 8:00 PM Kyiv time, Steam Train Fest begins—the first event where we will showcase Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains.Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains is an economic strategy game about freight trains, production chains, and the struggle for corporate influence in a cyberpunk world.Before this, we completed development on two other games—Nocthra and Kill Factory—but for a long time, we could not find a suitable themed festival for them. They will be officially announced on August 17 as part of the Ukrainian Games Festival 2026.This experience prompted us to approach our next project differently: to decide in advance on the context in which the game would be presented and use it as a creative constraint. Steam’s event calendar included festivals dedicated to trains and cyberpunk, which sparked the idea of combining both themes in a single game. What began as a practical decision gradually evolved into a fully realized concept with its own world, mechanics, and identity.As the game director, this project is especially meaningful to me. In our previous games, I primarily focused on direction, cutscenes, and storytelling. This time, I wanted to create a game where the gameplay itself takes center stage and every session unfolds into a unique experience.I had long wanted to work with trains, logistics, and a sandbox strategy format in which players shape their own stories. The game does not lead them through a predefined scenario. Instead, it provides a system of rules, conditions, and interconnected mechanics from which different situations naturally emerge.My greatest source of inspiration was Super Loco World. Before development began, I played many train games on Steam in an effort to better understand the genre. However, many of them felt overloaded with ...
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