Red Dead Redemption Meets Cyberpunk 2077 In A Free FPS You Can Play Right Now

Robot cowboys. That’s the pitch, and Torn Ace Studios isn’t being cute about it.

Their game is called Cyber Rail, and the four-person indie team describes it as a “roguelike parkour FPS with robot cowboys.” Having watched the footage and poked at what’s playable, that description is doing exactly what it says on the tin.

It went live in the middle of a very crowded week

Cyber Rail hasn’t fully launched. What happened on August 3 is that the developer pushed the Steam page live with a free playtest demo, partly to show people what the thing actually is and partly to stress-test the game’s backend performance.

That timing is deliberate. Steam’s Cyberpunk Fest is running until 10 a.m. EST on August 10, and it’s stuffed with hundreds of games across every genre, plus dozens of demos you can try before you buy or wishlist.

Which is also the problem. When a storefront dumps that many titles in front of you at once, the small stuff drowns. A four-developer game with no release date is exactly the kind of thing that vanishes under the weight of everything else on the page.

Ghostrunner energy, western coat of paint

If you’ve played Ghostrunner or Katana Zero, you already know the rhythm this is going for. Fast, first-person, movement-forward, punishing.

The game description promises “a fine-tuned movement system [that] enables precise and agile maneuvers … with hordes of enemies targeting you from all directions and perilous falls around every corner.”

Read that last part again. Perilous falls around every corner is a polite way of saying you will die to geometry, repeatedly, and it will be your fault.

What you get beyond the running and shooting

There’s an array of unique weapons and upgrades in here, and a range of kit options that open up different playstyles. Standard roguelike scaffolding, but it’s the kind of structure that gives a movement shooter a reason to exist past the first hour.

The Cyberpunk 2077 comparison lands on the aesthetic. The Red Dead Redemption one lands on the space western itch, the dusty frontier thing that almost nobody in the FPS space bothers with.

There’s no release date, and that’s the catch

Outside of Steam’s “Coming Soon” label, there’s nothing. No window, no quarter, no year.

What you can do is wishlist it now and follow Torn Ace Studios on their socials via Linktree, then wait for any release date updates or announcements in the coming months.

Until then the playtest trial is free, it’s on Steam, and it’ll almost certainly leave you wanting more by the time you finish it. Four people made a game about robot cowboys who parkour. Go see if it works.