I wouldn't say it takes long to figure out the game's elements. But, you'll most likely fail your first run. Managing relations between passengers, making sure they have food, making sure the train has fuel... it's quite the juggle.
You'll also have to plan ahead when plotting your train's destinations, because back tracking is a bad idea.

So I guess at first it may seem like you're overwhelmed with information. But it takes about an hour or two to see that it's not that bad. The problem is, if you make a bad decision somewhere the tables can turn on you. For me, I have about 30 people who have little to no food, because I was trying to satisfy one of my carriages concerns (they want more people saved). I'm just about to hit a restaurant in the hopes that I can scavenge some. My fuel is also low, however there is a gas station in the same town. I need to do things quickly or the fog will get too thick and I won't have enough time to scavenge what I need, because people tend to disappear in the fog.

From the dev's site, it seems you could buy the game only from their own store until yesterday, the 15th, when it officially became available on GOG and Steam. I don't know why they did that, or if I read thing wrong, but that's what it says.

I'd say the devs wanted to give it a few fixes first. Steam didn't have it day one either.
edit: a few fixes to feel comfortable maybe...just a guess.

That makes me feel better knowing it's not on GOG's side or a proSteam thing. On the flip side, I'm still waiting for GOG to stop dragging their are and release the Quest here.

It does look difficult to get adequate fuel given that a seemingly modest journey can use up most of it. Anyway, good luck!

I'm in a similar situation, but in my case I can't purchase as many games I'd like because of the regional pricing the store has. I can purchase only in US dollars and that's really expensive to me because the mexican peso has been plummeting for a while.

Steam accepts my currency and has affordable regional pricing, I hope gog can do the same someday instead of having to buy everything on USD.

When I saw "a first-person strategy game about managing a fright train".
I thought it's F.E.A.R.: Equation
Got disappointed.

Zafehouse: Diaries isn't a good game. Despite interesting-sounding concepts, I'm not willing to chance Deadnaut or Fear Equation without a significant discount.

Had a feeling it seemed familiar to some games, so Zafhouse Diaries and Deadnaut combined in concept and style from the screenshots and description. You saved me looking up the developer :)

I'll wishlist this until later. My wallet hurts.

Same. I'm going to wait until my next paycheck and then decide. This game looks promising.

:^(

Thought this would be a sequel to the FEAR games.

Are there any other FPP startegy games?

I saw the trailer this morning on my youtube feed and instantly recognized the style of the authors of Zafehouse Diaries ^o^

Whishlisted

Well, since GOG doesn't let devs give out GOG keys for some reason (buy it here, NO FREEBIES!)... does anyone want my Steam key?