Northgate Dispatch
You run the signal box on the night shift. Bring trains in, hold the late ones, and send them back out before the timetable buries you. Route one wrong and the line locks up. A keyboard-driven dispatch puzzle on an 80s green-CRT board.
About
Run the board.
It is the night shift and the trains do not wait. You work one green-and-ambercontrol terminal as the signal operator. Read the timetable, bring approaching
trains in, hold the ones running late, and release them down the main line
before the next service reaches the junction.
One wrong route locks the line.
Send a train onto an occupied platform, foul the junction, or release one earlyand the interlocking trips. Now you are filing the incident report, naming the
cause, and clearing the block while three more trains stack up behind it. Each
shift gets tighter, and the clock keeps moving.
Earn your grade.
You start as a trainee on a quiet branch and work up shift by shift: cityterminals, tangled interchanges, and the graveyard rush where a lot goes wrong
at once. Every railyard runs the same schedule each time, so a bad shift is on
you, and getting good at it is real.
Features
- The whole job on one screen. No menus to dig through. Every train,
signal, and report lives on one hand-built CRT board. Learn it in a shift,
chase an A for weeks. - Deterministic puzzles. Seeded schedules, so it comes down to skill,
not luck. - Six difficulty tiers, from a quiet induction run to the hidden
graveyard shift, each with its own railyards. - Full controller support and a keyboard-first design that runs well on
the Steam Deck. - Station ambience that reacts to your board: crowd noise, rolling
stock, and platform announcements. - 15 achievements and lifetime stats.
- Three terminal colours: emerald, amber, and lapis.
Languages
Interface and station announcements in English, German, French, Spanish,Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese. Text and voice can be set
separately.
Clock in and take the board.
Videos
Screenshots
Achievements
Complete the training tutorial.
Pass the mission on the Very Easy board.
Pass the mission on the Easy branch.
Pass the mission on a Medium terminal
Pass the mission on a Hard interchange.
Pass the mission on a Difficult main interchange.
Pass a mission on the Graveyard shift.
System requirements
Minimum Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64 bit) Processor: Dual-core 2.0 Ghz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 4000 or better Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Full controller support. Recommended Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 11 (64-bit) Processor: Quad-core 2.5 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Any dedicated or modern integrated GPU Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Full controller support.
Minimum OS: macOS 11 Processor: Apple Silicon or Intel Core i3 Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL or Metal-compatible GPU Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Full controller support. Recommended OS: macOS 11 Processor: Apple Silicon or Intel Core i3 Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Metal-compatible GPU Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Full controller support.
Minimum OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / SteamOS 3 or later Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 / Vulkan compatible Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Full controller support. Recommended OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / SteamOS 3 or later Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 / Vulkan compatible Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Full controller support.