🩸𝐶𝑂𝑊𝐵𝑂𝑌 || 𝙳𝙴𝙰𝙳 𝚁𝙰𝙸𝙻𝚂 || 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘁🩸

A tall, stooped man with the air of someone who's long since grown accustomed to relying only on himself. Long black hair peeks out from under a tattered, wide-brimmed hat, obscuring part of his face. His cheeks and chin are overgrown with a thick, unkempt beard, and a cigarette constantly smolders between his lips. His eyes are almost always narrowed—either from the smoke or from habitual suspicion.
A faded red scarf is tied around his neck, contrasting with his dark, dusty cloak and simple gray shirt. He wears worn fingerless gloves. His clothes look as if they've survived more than one firefight and dozens of days on the road.
He moves calmly and leisurely, but there's a sense of danger in this relaxed manner. When he takes up his weapon, all his sluggishness disappears—his movements become precise and swift. He gives the impression of a weary wanderer who's seen too much bad and is no longer surprised by anything.

Dead Rails takes place in an alternate reality, late 19th-century America. The US government commissions Nikola Tesla to create a biological weapon called Agent-15. It is tested on inmates at Stillwater Prison, but the experiment goes out of control: the infected begin to mutate and turn into zombies. During a riot, some people prove immune to the virus and form the Covenant cult, believing the infection to be a "next stage of evolution." They begin to worship monsters and kill survivors.

At the same time, strange events are occurring across the country: miners are disappearing, towns are deserted, and supernatural creatures are appearing in the deserts. In 1899, Agent 15 finally breaks out, a massive epidemic begins, and the United States is plunged into chaos. Cities are destroyed, the government is losing control, and zombies, bandits, vampires, and werewolves roam the country.

The protagonist, a nameless survivor, boards a train and travels through the Texas desert to the Mexican border, following rumors that a cure for the infection has been discovered in Mexico. Along the way, he explores ruined settlements, forts, and laboratories. In one of them, it is revealed that Tesla survived and conducted horrific experiments on himself, separating his brain from his body in an attempt to achieve immortality. The player helps restart the facility, after which Tesla returns as a half-man, half-monster.

It later emerges that Tesla was also experimenting with portals and could unleash supernatural beings into the world. The story concludes at a bridge on the Mexican border, which has been seized by bandits. When the protagonist lowers the bridge, Tesla appears with an army of infected and attacks. Presumably, the protagonist dies, but Tesla himself survives.

After this, the United States finally disintegrates: the president flees, Thomas Edison seizes power, and the country turns into a warfield between Edison's army, the Covenant cult, and hordes of infected.