Transarctica

The game is divided into two modes; exploration and combat.

The train roams Eurasia and North Africa using its various facilities and tools, gathering coal for currency and fuel, visiting towns to trade and to enhance the train, and searching for clues for its quest. The dystopic setting is well integrated, for instance, using slave labor is necessary to complete the game.

The story is based on the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel series La Compagnie des glaces by the French writer Georges-Jean Arnaud.

In the 21st century, mankind is being ravaged by the greenhouse effect. A last-ditch effort to counteract it is designed and executed. It works far too well.

Computer Gaming World in May 1994 criticized the train controls as both too simple and "intentionally annoying" and train combat as "painfully slow", and mentioned other "annoying, rough edges". The magazine concluded that the game's "blemishes derail an otherwise original and delightful premise".