In ShortRails your goal is to keep the train on rail and make it loop forever.
Controls
- Change the rails of a tile with left/right click.
- Remove rails with middle mouse button or space.
- Escape to give up.
Guide
- You loose if the train reaches the end of the rails (obviously).
- You have to come by the train station regularly. If the clock runs out before you do you loose.
- Avoid tiles occupied by bandits, or it's gameover.
- You get a bonus score multiplier by passing by a tile with a lady.
- Rails flashing in yellow will change randomly next time the train steps on them.

I've found that menues being interactable are great for jam games. It would probably be kind of annoying in a game you launch everyday but it's perfect for a game you try once or twice. Usually it's also very easy to make by copy-pasting parts of the game.
Thanks for the feebacks!
I was unclear on some of the mechanics? I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to be directing the train *through* the ladies (which seems like it would be very bad for them!) or alongside them (then what counts as "alongside" in that case?). Similarly I wasn't sure why I sometimes couldn't change a piece of track after placing it down. Do you need to have an extra piece of track in stock to change an existing piece? It also took me a while to recognize the bandits as such (I assumed they were passengers, though in retrospect I can get a slight Snidely Whiplash feel from them).
Still, it's a fun little casual game and I could imagine myself wasting away a lot of time on it, especially if the placement controls were a little more streamlined (maybe something with gestures?). Thanks for making it!
Thanks for the precise feedbacks :)
Anyway, it's pretty, quite unique amongst other entries, and it's fun to play. Great work!

Once I came to the edge of the screen, the train stopped, but the score kept increasing.
The visuals are very very good and polished for a compo game.
The gameplay is very intuitive on most part but a bit less on others (I didn't understood right away that the men in shirts were bad guys, even if said like that it sounds obvious haha).
Once I read that you can delete with space I got too good and got stuck on end of the world too 🌈
Thanks for the game, now I know how to build railways.