- tinyBuild are shutting down and delisting Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape - 20 January 2026
We're about to say a permanent goodbye to another multiplayer title, as Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape is set to be fully shut down. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/tinybuild-are-shutting-down-and-delisting-pandemic-express-zombie-escape/
- An important update on Pandemic Express - 20 January 2026
Hey everyone, On Tuesday, 21st of April, we will be delisting Pandemic Express from Steam and disabling all active servers. Owners of Pandemic Express will still see the game in their libraries, however the game will no longer be playable, as matchmaking will be permanently disabled. We want to offer a sincere thank you to everyone who supported Pandemic Express over the years and have joined us since this journey began back in 2019. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us via our official channels or in the replies. tinyBuild Games
- US Servers are Online! - 21 January 2020
Hey everyone! Good news for the NA players — our US servers are online! Right now you have to choose a server from the server list manually, but in a few days we'll add it to the region selection menu alongside Asia and Europe. Have fun!
- Zombie survival game Pandemic Express is now free to play - 20 January 2020
I was quite taken by the idea of Pandemic Express when it was announced last year. It's a multiplayer survival game that has a group of 30 people attempting to escape a zombie apocalypse, the twist being that one of them—unbeknownst to the rest—is already infected, granting them powerful abilities, unlimited respawns, and a burning hunger for brains . Cue a running fight to the last train out and a final stand by whoever's left alive, and it sounds like a pretty good time to me. The player numbers haven't been great, though (to put it mildly), and so publisher Tinybuild is taking another run at it by making the game free to play . Under the new system, players will earn "stars" by playing matches that can be spent on costumes, emojis, and in-game music. If you don't want to wait, you can opt to buy them instead.  "We believe this is the most fair a…
- Pandemic Express is now free - 16 January 2020
Pandemic Express, the survival shooter where you try to outrun a player-controlled swarm of infected, is going free to play! Going Free To Play in a nutshell: 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! Free Music For Everyone Who Bought The Game! 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 whol…
- Pandemic Express is going Free on Thursday - 14 January 2020
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://store.steampowered.com/app/939510/Pandemic_Express__Zombie_Escape/
- Achievements, Music and Emotes — Update 29/12/2019 - 29 December 2019
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 https://i.ibb.co/gtmwvQj/music.gif Added special emotes, purchasable with stars https://i.imgur.com/vGlLaUO.gif Fixes to the cable car location: removed objects that were interfering with climbing up the ladder See you in 2020!
- Set of Hope and Leaders Set - Update 22/10/2019 - 22 October 2019
Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update: v..1.0.0.0.009 19/10/22 Set of Hope Can turn a Zombie into a Human, one per match. Is given a rifle with one bullet for turining a Zombie Leaders Set Invisible while crouching Invisibility doesn’t work on the train Can’t shoot while invisible Added server list Added the ability to host custom servers. Hosting manual: coming soon Added a sniper rifle with a scope to drops Bombers now die after taking one hit New car model Fixed smoke grenade render Reworked the cliff on the cable car’s path next to the Station A Minor changes to Station D 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.
- Asia regional servers - Update 15/10/2019 - 15 October 2019
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.
- Update 11/10/2019 - 11 October 2019
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
- Update 04/10/2019 - 4 October 2019
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
- V1.0 Now Available on Steam - Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape, 34% off! - 27 September 2019
Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape is Now Available on Steam and is 34% off!* In Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape, a group of humans try to outrun a player-controlled swarm of infected. Everyone spawns in a train station until one is randomly infected and needs to turn fleeing survivors into zombies. Survivors try to escape by train. *Offer ends October 4 at 10AM Pacific Time
- 1.0 Release / 1+1 Promo — 27/09/2019 - 27 September 2019
https://i.imgur.com/6pVrYS5.gif 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! https://i.imgur.com/h3z5u0P.png 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…
- Set of Safety and Set of Lover - Update 24/09/2019 - 25 September 2019
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. Doubled the size of the bomb’s hitbox Added a particle for the bomb Bomb explosion time — 1 second Zombies and Humans now have the same speed Maximum speed of drop opening is now achieved with 3 Humans Added a check for bomb activation through walls Added a bomb activation effect Added a Bomber sound, distance — 10m Server optimizations Fixed ladder activation on the cable car Fixed how Vanity pants are displayed with parts of different sets Cha…
- Jacket & Sneakers of Vanity - Update 14/09/2019 - 14 September 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34325804%2F5d0ec4e1e94392b62e946ac7233d34236e5260f3.png Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update: v..0.9.7.100 19/09/14 Added Vanity set: Jacket of Vanity and Sneakers of Vanity Added Vanity set ability: Triple Jump Added 1 second cooldown for Conductor’s melee Fixed barrel flight synchronization Updated Mimics Mimic’s bomb planting speed on the train decreased by 50% Mimic’s bomb planting speed not on the train increased by 50% Added a 2 second delay before the bomb explosion Added the bomb detonation sound effect Mimic’s model changes to a zombie when planting a bomb Main Menu: Fixed bugs related to head customization Fixed constantly popping up tutorial window Actualized player levels on the stats page More keys trigger splash screen skip now Fixed XP bar animation on the results screen In a ma…
- Update 31/08/2019 - 31 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34325804%2F6afbdbdf60bbcb04488d3d0f042286fec41a6dcc.png Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update: Fixed the number of conductors. A limit is set for 2 conductors at the same time Fixed incorrect names of mimics Removed damage from mimic’s mines through walls. The solution is under development, some cases of damage through objects are still possible. Added damage from barrels thrown by zombies (⅓ of a heart) Fixed the high chance of armor drop in houses
- Update 24/08/2019 - 24 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34325804%2Fabb982f9992e019e740d22f571ee5192ed467d9b.jpg Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update: v..0.9.5.100 19/08/23 New human model. Developer Comment: New human model is more in line with the lore and is better optimized. Added new lighting for zombies Decreased Mimic’s health Removed first tier of shotguns Fixed incorrect circle effect for zombies Fixed display time of endscreen Minor location changes.
- Update 14/08/2019 - 14 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34325804%2F570ec9a5d2ff38b8b13dbf4e23fd5af24465d8d0.jpg Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update: v..0.9.4.000 19/08/14 A tutorial has been added to the warm-up map. The tutorial will be offered to players who have played less than 5 matches. Developer Comment: For now we have implemented a tutorial for basic mechanics: double jumping, sliding and simple gunjumping. In future updates we will expand the tutorial, offering more complex mechanics. Added item store system. Set of Doubts and Mask of Vanity are available for purchase. Sets can be purchased for stars, received after a match. Developer Comment: We want to give a better sense of progression and growth in the game. All future sets will be obtainable using the same system. There will be a temporary wipe of all points and levels. This is temp…
- Update 09/08/2019 - 9 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34325804%2Fabb982f9992e019e740d22f571ee5192ed467d9b.jpg Hey everyone! Here's the full list of changes in the latest update: v..0.9.3.005 19/08/09 Added HP bars over Сonductors Mimic names are now taken from the list of human players’ names in the match Developer Comment: Previously we used a name generator, but it wasn't as inventive as a real person. Experienced players would quickly discover Mimics, so we decided to use real nicknames from matches. In the future, we plan to mimic not only nicknames, but also costumes, crowns, etc. New points system Developer Comment: The system is now in test mode and will be updated for balancing in the coming days. The main task is to equalize the number of points received per match for zombies and for humans. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34325804%2F%25E2%2580%25A6
- Update 02/08/19 - 2 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34325804%2F6afbdbdf60bbcb04488d3d0f042286fec41a6dcc.png Hey everyone! Here are the patch notes for this week's update: - Mimics now officially have their driver permits - Reduced Mimics' vehicle ramming damage — now max damage is 1 heart - Added Human health bars for Zombie UI. Health bars are visible on Humans within 10 meters from a Zombie. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34325804%2F27179e2cc7a1f82f70e4490e51f99ac58f4c08c2.jpg - Added tags for Humans in field of view of a Zombie, max distance — 70m. - Reduced the chance of armor spawn in the houses - Added cooldown indicators to the health vending machines - Changes to the zombie houses: simplified the room, added additional paths to the first floor - Changes to the railroad bridges - Changes to the lighting: windows in zombie houses are…
