Spooky Express

Reviewers praised the gameplay and theming of Spooky Express.

• Title — Spooky Express • Developer — Draknek & Friends • Publisher — Draknek & Friends • Engine — Godot • Platforms — * Android • iOS • macOS • Windows • Released — 21 October 2025 • Genre — Puzzle • Modes — Single-player

Spooky Express is a puzzle game. In each level, the player drags a train track across a 2D grid, and must pick up and drop off various passengers before reaching a connecting track on the opposite side of the grid. As the player's train only holds a limited number of passengers, managing what order passengers are picked up and dropped off is an important part of the game. Different types of passengers function differently: for example, vampires need to be delivered to a coffin, humans need to be taken to the end of the track, and demons cannot be next to vampires. There are over 200 levels, and levels are grouped into worlds. Each world has a linear path of basic levels, as well as a branching set of advanced levels.

Spooky Express was developed and published by Draknek & Friends, a studio run by London-based developer Alan Hazelden. It was first announced in May 2025, and was released on 21 October 2025 for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. The game is built on the Godot game engine. Lucas Le Slo was the level designer and created most of the game's puzzles. Creative director Alan Hazelden described their process as focusing each puzzle on exploring a single idea and using puzzles to teach key concepts, saying they used videos of playtesters to understand what concepts they missed to "figure out if there should be an earlier level focusing on that concept".