Pandemic Express, the survival shooter where you try to outrun a player-controlled swarm of infected, is going free to play!

• Pandemic Express is now free
  
• You earn stars for playing matches
  
• You can spend these stars on costumes, emojis, and in-game music
  
• If you don’t have enough time to earn stars, you can simply buy them
  
• All original buyers of the game are getting 2,000 stars to buy whatever you want -- thank you so much for being with us from the start!

We believe this is the most fair and transparent way to do free to play. Tell us what you think in the comments!


To celebrate going Free To Play, we are giving everyone who originally bought the game all in-game music tracks!

In-game music is the jukebox you carry around in the beginning of the match. By choosing your own music, you set the theme for the whole match. Unless you get eaten by zombies of course.


Pandemic Express is a zombie escape game. You play as a human, but when you die, the match isn’t over for you — you come back as a zombie to hunt down the rest of the humans.

Your goal as a human is to loot up and get on a train, then ride on that train out of the zombies’ lair to safety, while the zombies attack you from all the directions, pulling the humans one by one away from the train.

You won’t survive alone, so it’s best to stay in small groups. Ideal scenario — you and your mates get into a van and drive it to a weapon drop location to get the best guns. Then, once you’re battle-ready, get on that train and defend it.

Guns have two purposes — defense and utility/parkour. You can bounce off any surface using your guns — just walk up to a wall and fire a burst at the right angle — and you’ll get up that wall, all the way to the roof. There are also double jumps and bounce pads — all of this combined allows an experienced player to traverse the map like a ninja, hopping from a rooftop to a tree crown to another rooftop.

After you die, you get to choose one of the three zombie classes. Each has a unique flavor — one allows you to swallow humans and spit them out away from the train, another one — to mimic humans, blending in with them to deal a devastating blow.


The asymmetrical PvP provides fun for players of all skill levels — if you can’t fend off a bunch of zombies on your own yet, you can have fun chasing veteran survivors as a zombie and get rewarded for it.

Movement is one of the most crucial skills in Pandemic Express — learning how to bunnyhop and gun-jump efficiently can make all the difference in a match.

Practice a bit in the training mode or check out this starter’s guide:


Pandemic Express has a very tight-knit community. They hang out in our Discord[discordapp.com], create amazing fan art[www.facebook.com] and animations, and recently some community-made emojis made it into the game!

Good news everyone!

Pandemic Express, the survival shooter where hordes of player controlled zombies hunt down survivors, is going free to play this Thursday!

We are doing it in the simplest way possible: you can unlock in-game items such as Emotes, Jukebox Music, and Skins by playing the game, or simply buying stars to get them faster. No effect on gameplay whatsoever. Except everyone will know your taste in music.

Everyone who bought the game up until Thursday will get a special set of items for being on our zombie train early.

All owners of the game will get an email from us notifying of the transition.

See you on Thursday!

A fresh reminder of how fast Pandemic Express can be:

Don't forget to Wishlist the game:

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/939510/Pandemic_Express__Zombie_Escape/

Survivors!

Long time no see! This is the last update for Pandemic Express this year, but not the last one ever.

Today we're introducing achievements, new emotes and music to the game, and we'll kick off the next year with some more exciting changes, so stay tuned!


Here's the full list of changes:

sys_version = 1.0.0.0.030 19/10/29

• Added Steam achievements
  
• Music tracks are now purchasable with stars
  
  • Music can be played on the station radios
    
  • You can equip up to 3 tracks into a match
    
  • Total of 30 tracks is available
  
• Added special emotes, purchasable with stars
  
• [Map] Fixes to the cable car location: removed objects that were interfering with climbing up the ladder

See you in 2020!

Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update:

v..1.0.0.0.009 19/10/22

1. Set of Hope
   
   • Can turn a Zombie into a Human, one per match.
     
   • Is given a rifle with one bullet for turining a Zombie
2. Leaders Set
   
   • Invisible while crouching
     
   • Invisibility doesn’t work on the train
     
   • Can’t shoot while invisible
3. Added server list
   
4. Added the ability to host custom servers. Hosting manual: coming soon
   
5. Added a sniper rifle with a scope to drops
   
6. Bombers now die after taking one hit
   
7. New car model
   
8. [FX] Fixed smoke grenade render
   
9. [Map] Reworked the cliff on the cable car’s path next to the Station A
   
10. [Map] Minor changes to Station D
    
11. [Map] Changes to the trolley tracks

Client crashes update: We found a potential cause of crashes. If our guesses are confirmed, then in the near days we will release the patch.

Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update:

v..1.0.0.0.007 19/10/15

• Added Asia regional servers
  
• Updates for train mode:
  
• New Tram Model
  
• Increased airdrop opening time
  
• Known issue: at the end of a match in the main menu European region will be always displayed. This is a visual bug, it will connect to the previously selected region.

Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update:

v..1.0.0.0.003 19/10/11

• The train cannot be activated during the first two minutes of the match
  
• Mimics can now mimic the Human sets
  
• Fixed the headless Conductors
  
• Fixed barrel throws for Conductors
  
• Added authorization checks at the start of a game
  
• Fixed bugged main menu UI for squads
  
• Added a timer at the beginning of a game
  
• Reworked a location next to the Station D

Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update:

v..1.0.0.0.001 19/10/04

• Fully redesigned Station B
  
• New vehicles for Cable Car mode - Helicopters
  
• Fixed spawn at Station A

Hey everyone!

Today we're launching Pandemic Express 1.0, we’re finally out of Early Access. We wanted to thank you, our community, for sticking with us throughout this journey, and helping us make the game better.

To celebrate, we're once again launching a special offer:

Everyone who buys Pandemic Express within the first 7 days gets an additional copy to give to a friend! And this time around you can play with your friends.

Since the launch of Early Access we’ve implemented many features and gameplay changes. Take a look at the roadmap presented back in May, and stay tuned for a new one!

And finally, here are the patch notes for v.1.0.0.0.000. Since we wanted the launch to be as smooth as possible, it’s nothing major — all the drastic changes were delivered in the last couple of updates.

• New Cable Car model
  
• New Cable Car supporting mount model
  
• Fixed healing on the train
  
• Patched the holes on a station
  
• Increased Zombie speed for the first 30% of the overall lobby population

Grab a friend, jump into a lobby, spam some “Hello”s and never stop running!

Yours, Tallboys and tinyBuild team

Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update:

v..0.9.9.9.999 19/09/24

• Added Set of Safety, perk — 1 HP and 5 Armor
  
• Added Set of Lover, perk — Vampirism

Developer Comment: New sets have a higher price in the first days of their launch. The prices will drop afterwards. We think that it makes for a very satisfactory prestige of a set, but also not punishing for the players, that don't want to spend that kind of time on a game.

• [Gameplay] Doubled the size of the bomb’s hitbox
  
• [Gameplay] Added a particle for the bomb
  
• [Gameplay] Bomb explosion time — 1 second
  
• [Gameplay] Zombies and Humans now have the same speed
  
• [Gameplay] Maximum speed of drop opening is now achieved with 3 Humans
  
• [Gameplay] Added a check for bomb activation through walls

• [FX] Added a bomb activation effect
  
• [FX] Added a Bomber sound, distance — 10m
  
• [Fix] Server optimizations
  
• [Fix] Fixed ladder activation on the cable car
  
• [Fix] Fixed how Vanity pants are displayed with parts of different sets
  
• [Fix] Character model optimization
  
• [Fix] Fixed controls customization
  
• [Fix] Fixed Human tags

• [UI] Interface optimization
  
• [UI] Changed the logic behind joining a lobby as a party
  
• [UI] Fixed Conductor’s HP bar
  
• [UI] Added the ability to skip splash screen by pressing Enter, Esc, LMB
  
• [UI] Updated loading screen tips

• [Map] Fully redesigned Station C
  
• [Map] Minor changes to Station D
  
• [Map] Physics optimization
  
• [Map] Lighting optimization
  
• [Map] Removed vending machines from the central town
  
• [Map] Fixed the hole in the tunnel
  
• [Map] Removed physics properties of the cable car’s wheels