Dead Rails event
Dead Rails: Halloween Event — What It Included
Dead Rails ran its Halloween event, subtitled Edison’s Revenge, from October 18 to November 3, 2025 — a limited seasonal update that added a new game mode, two new playable classes, and a new train to the survival shooter. More than a million players marked themselves interested before it opened.
Dead Rails, made by RCM Games, is one of Roblox’s busiest cooperative survival titles: it has passed 6.4 billion visits and sits above six million favorites, and it still holds close to 18,000 players at once well after this event closed. The Halloween drop was its big autumn moment, and everything it added stayed in the game after the seasonal framing came down.
Dead Rails
🎃 Halloween Event
EDISON'S REVENGE!
Oct 18, 3:15 PM – Nov 3, 12:00 PM ET
A Halloween takeover that adds the Edison's Revenge game mode, two horror-themed classes in Frankenstein and Ghost, and a new Dracula's Train.
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What the Halloween event included
According to the developer’s patch notes, the update was built around three headline additions:
- Edison’s Revenge — a new game mode and the event’s centerpiece, the source of the “Edison’s Revenge” subtitle.
- Frankenstein and Ghost — two new playable classes themed to the holiday, expanding the roster of roles a party could bring on a run.
- Dracula’s Train — a new train, the vehicle at the heart of Dead Rails’ cross-country runs, given a Halloween treatment.
When it ran
The event opened on October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM ET and closed on November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET — a run of a little over two weeks that carried it past Halloween itself. The exact start and end, listed across the major world time zones, are on the card above. The new mode, classes, and train were the draw during that window; the timed event has since ended, though the content it introduced lived on in the game afterward.
How it fit Dead Rails’ rhythm
Dead Rails runs on a steady drumbeat of timed events, and the Halloween update was a seasonal high point in that cadence rather than a one-off. The dates across the game’s calendar show new events landing every few weeks — a spring Stranger Things: ’85 crossover, Endless Mode and Run Objectives through May and June, a Summer Heatwave in July, and a Class Mastery event that followed in August. The Halloween event slotted into that pattern as the autumn tentpole, leaning on a holiday theme the way the Stranger Things run leaned on its crossover. If you know Dead Rails’ schedule, the takeaway is that seasonal drops like this one come around reliably, so a missed event is rarely the last of its kind.
FAQ
When did the Dead Rails Halloween event end?
The Halloween event ended on November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET, after opening on October 18, 2025.
What was in the Dead Rails Halloween event?
It added the Edison’s Revenge game mode, two new classes — Frankenstein and Ghost — and a new Dracula’s Train.
Is the Dead Rails Halloween event still going?
No. The timed event wrapped on November 3, 2025, though the mode, classes, and train it introduced remained part of the game afterward.
How long did the Dead Rails Halloween event last?
It ran for a little over two weeks, from October 18 to November 3, 2025, carrying the theme through Halloween and into early November.