The Neon Rail
275 miles. One crawler. No turning back.
Lead a party of five along The Sprawl's abandoned BART rail — an Oregon Trail journey through a world that's been broken for a hundred years.
What it is
Smugglers used the abandoned BART rail to move goods between sectors after corporate checkpoints made every road a tax booth. The rail still runs — barely — and it's the only way through The Sprawl that doesn't get scanned.
You've taken a job. An ORACLE shard, hidden in the Ad Graveyard near old San Jose, needs to reach The Keeper at Mystery Court on The Mountain. Five companions. Sixteen stops. Whatever supplies you can scavenge along the way.
Mechanically: Oregon Trail Deluxe, beat for beat. Resources, party health, random events, landmark progression. Aesthetically: CyberSprawl universe lore on every stop.
The Journey
Sixteen trail stops along an expanded BART network, south to north. Each stop sits in a different faction's shadow — avoided, not visited. Each event teaches a piece of the universe.
- STARTAd Graveyard — abandoned advertising server farm near San Jose. Where the shard waits.
- …14 stops through The Sprawl's underbelly. Smuggler way-stations, corporate patrols, and a medivac if you can find Dr. Tzu Yu in time.
- ENDMystery Court, The Mountain — The Keeper waits. Bring the shard.
Primary purpose: lore tutorial. Every stop introduces a steel thread. Every event teaches a universe concept. The journey IS the curriculum.
Explore the trail
The Route
Every stop on the rail, south to north — Ad Graveyard to Mystery Court. Lore, shops, NPCs, barriers.
See the route → 14 companions · party of 5Companions
Who's in the crawler with you. Abilities grounded in their lore, dialogue at every stop.
Meet the cast → Oregon Trail · 1:1 parityMechanics
Resources, conditions, events, scavenging. How the trail plays — every system as Sprawl-native lore.
How it plays →Status
- Engine: Unity 2022.3 LTS
- Primary platform: Steam Deck
- Testing target: WebGL
- Phase: Design — narrative beats and trail stops being written into the lore. No playable build yet.