The Great Train Robbery Unblocked

The Great Train Robbery is less about quick reflexes and more about writing a good plan. A gold train is coming through a dusty frontier town, and you have $4,000 to put a gang together. You never steer a single outlaw once the shooting starts. Instead you set everything up in advance, press go, and watch your instructions either work beautifully or fall apart in a hail of rifle fire. Ondřej Žára made it in a week for the 2026 Seven Day Roguelike Challenge, and you can play it unblocked here with just a keyboard.

Three Stops Before the Train

The saloon is your hiring hall. Every resident has a price, and many names reveal a trait. Someone called “the Sick” has less health, “Speedy” moves quicker and “Expensive” lives up to the label.

The general store sells the hardware: horses, revolvers, rifles, a sniper rifle, a rocket launcher and dynamite. One weapon and one horse per person.

The hotel is where you plan. For each outlaw you pick a starting building and build a task list. Some buildings can be entered and left freely. Others only offer roof access, which grants extra range and protection from punches but leaves that person stuck up top.

When the train arrives, damage a wagon until it comes loose. Gold bags tumble out along with armed guards. Hitting the locomotive slows the train. Once your gang is gone or has nothing left to do, the heist ends and you see your score.

The Great Train Robbery controls

To do this	Keyboard
Skip the intro and start	Enter
Change the random seed on the intro screen	E
Jump to the map, saloon, store, hotel or start screen	M, O, G, T, K
Read the help	?
Choose an entry from a list	Number keys 1 to 0
Hire or fire in the saloon, buy or sell in the store	H / F, P / S
In the hotel, set a location, add a task or remove one	L, A, R
Shift the chosen task higher or lower	Up / Down arrows
Return to the gang list	B
Accept or close a dialog	Enter / Escape
Pause the heist, then abort if you want	Space (then A to abort)
Once it ends, retry, rehire in the same town, or get a new town	1, 3, 5

Writing Orders That Work

Every outlaw reads their list from the top and does the first task that is currently possible. That single rule explains most failed heists. Some planning advice:

1. Put narrow, situational tasks above broad ones. “Attack train guards” should sit higher than “Attack wagons with gold”, so guards get dealt with the moment they appear.
2. Make sure at least one person has the collect task, or the gold just sits there.
3. Pair every rooftop sniper with a ground runner. Roof spots cannot climb down.
4. Buy everyone a gun. Fists deal 1 damage, while guards fire from three tiles out.
5. Hire carefully. The final total is divided among all hires, dead ones included.

When a plan goes wrong, pause with Space and read the running log to see exactly who shot whom.

Why Planners Love It

Pressing 1 after a heist puts you back in the same town with the same crew, so you can change one line of orders and test it again. That loop of small tweaks is very satisfying. If you like thinking ahead more than acting fast, Elevator Saga scratches a similar itch, and our strategy games have more to plan around.