Choo Choo Charles - The Story Explained

"Aranearum" doesn't just mean "Spider", but it literally translates to "of the spiders". This information kind of foreshadows the ending, since the island name is theoretically "Island of the spiders".

R.I.P. to Eugene. He was a good man. Too bad we couldn't tell his kid what happened.

Fighting Charles with a train and guns is terrifying just imagine being on foot with a rock on a stick. 💀💀💀

I’ve always loved the design for Charles because a train car weirdly matches the general shape of a spider. Like, the large box on the back resembles a spider’s abdomen. It keeps the shape of a spider whilst not losing the train which I think adds to the fear factor. If that makes sense.

If this game gets a sequel I think an interesting plot would be somebody finding one of Charles' young and raising it into a protector of the island instead of a monster, it would show a nature vs nurture that not a lot of video games use.

Scene Selection 0:00 - Intro 0:27 - The origins of Charles 5:15 - The Archivist 7:31 - A helping hand - side quest breakdown - 14:10 - The Ending Explained 17:54 - Outro Good morning, one and all!

My take on the thousand eggs ending. In the game there is a piece of paper that talks about a creature called "Gus the Bus" and says Charles is afraid of Gus. While it is written to be somewhat of a mad scribbles from a madman, it made me think that Charles isn't the only spider/bug vehicle hybrid out there, and these eggs are proof of that. What if a sequel comes out where we have to survive in a world now populated by bug possessed vehicles? Each egg hatched a parasite larva that crawled into the first vehicle that it could find. Oh, that could even be a game mechanic. You can find abanoned vehicles to drive, but you have to be very observant and careful before climbing into one to try and drive it. If nothing seems out of place, then it is an ordinary vehicle. But if something seems off, like a bumper shaped like teeth or the radio antannae looks like a bug's antannae, then it is a hybrid creature trying to blend in and ambush any foolish prey that hops inside of it.

Something I love about this game is how simple and relaxing it is. Relaxing in the sense that it's very easy. The stealth sections are quick and linear, the weapons have infinite ammo, the scraps are easy to find and plentiful, most quests are to the point and the game mechanics are straightforward without any bells and whistles. Also this game is gorgeous. It's supposed to be an indie title and yet it has graphics (not the humans), world layout and details that surpass most tripple A games nowadays.

Theory: The eggs aren't from Choo Choo Charles. The eggs are from Gus the Bus, as there is a note talking about him, and in the church a note says "Snake VS. Spider (spiders have more legs usually)" as Gus might be a snake bus, and snakes lay eggs. Spiders also lay them, but they look different from the eggs in the game. Charles probably protects the eggs because he fears Gus and he believes Gus will come if the eggs are destroyed. Also, the way Gus would get onto the island is he probably swam, because some snakes are amphibious. (I mean that some can swim) so, he probably swam to Aranearum and went back to the mainland, then, he possessed the bus. Edit: Thanks for 200 likes! This is now my most liked comment. Also, we do not know if Gus is a snake, it is just a theory, don't get too excited!

Imagine what realistic Charles would look like...probably even more terrifying than what he already is!

If there is a sequel of some kind I want something water themed, submarine, tug boat, a few good options for something to be possessed. Could be on a chain of small islands forcing you to use water travel. Another idea that I haven't seen in a game yet is the use of trapdoor spiders. Only time I recall someone using them was in Eight Legged Freaks.

17:53 all those eggs could be different creatures. As it said at the start, the train was most likely possessed by a evil spirit. For all we know there could be more creatures different to Charles not hatched or found out yet.

I like a theory suggesting that Charles uses the train like how a hermit crab uses a shell. Kinda reminds me of some creatures from Monster Hunter.

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make." - Warren

THIS GAME PROVED THAT YOU ONLY NEED A 1 SKILLED DEVELOPER, FEW TALENTED VOICE ACTORS, FEW TALENTED ARTIST, ENVIRONMENT AND GRAPHIC PACKS AND AN UNDENIABLE SCARY TRAIN AND CATCHY LORE AND STORY!! CHOO CHOO CHARLES ARE ONE CHARACTER THAT IS ADDED ON MY TIER OF INDIE HORROR GAME TERRORS

I don't think the creatures start out as spider trains. I think they are just spider creatures but Warren's men were transporting one in a train when it hatched. Then maybe it set up home in the train and ate anyone that came on the train or near it. It then got so big that it became too big to exit the train and grew into it, giving us current Charles. 2 things support this. 1)The ancient drawing doesnt look like a train. 2) trains weren't invented until relatively recently and if this thing is ancient, as the tablet suggests, it couldn't be a long lineage of trains. This also opens up future games to be other things besides trains like busses, tractors, etc.

Actually Charles isn’t a spirit, he in a origin story we find out he is just a smart giant spider who after getting chased away from their eggs by a lot of armed miners somehow hid inside a train and surprise attacked them, ever since then Charles has been using the train as armor

Theory: Charles wasn't always a train , he was a demon spider that found the husk of a train to live in like a hermit crab. Because there is a junkyard on the island. Edit: why does this have 1k likes?

Many people believe that Charles isn’t really a train,but a spider-like monster that wears the train ,like armor. That still doesn’t explain HOW does a mining train is able to withstand an endless barrage machine gun and rocket fire.

Theory Someone (Most likely the Archivist) stumbles upon the nest we see at the end of the game & brings the eggs back to the mainland. If this is the Archivist, it means he's following in the same steps as Warren, choosing money over safety. If it's a new character, then they're just foolish. Once on the mainland, some the eggs hatch and a new reign of terror begins. It'll be up to a new monster hunter or perhaps even the Archivist, trying to redeem himself, to hunt down these monster trains and banish them from this world. If this is the case, we could potentially get several bosses, A bigger map and a ton of new lore! Any ideas?