It’s a shame, especially when Loco Motive gets off to such a strong start.

The construction of the game’s individual puzzle arcs is almost too neat for its own good as well.

Options to adjust the speed, size and background colour of subtitles.

A man in a blue tuxedo lets out a gasp of shock in Loco Motive.

Size options for hover text, and dialogue choice text.

Options to tweak camera sway and distortion effects.

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First up is the rather more tiresome detective novelist Herman Merman, whose grating cries of “No!”

and “That doesn’t work!”

with each incorrect puzzle attempt make him an infinitely worse hang by comparison.

A man tries to prize open a locked drawer inside a train carriage in Loco Motive.

A copy of Loco Motive was provided for review by publisher Chucklefish.

A man walks through a casino carriage in Loco Motive.

An inventory screen from Loco Motive.

A detective shoots down a suggestion from a doctor inside a train carriage in Loco Motive.

A man in a woman’s coat watches a scene unfold inside a train carriage in Loco Motive.

A man holds up a stick-like gadget in a train carriage in Loco Motive.