I'm a train guy, and this game's concept is amazing, I wanted to love this game. But first off lets figure out if it's a game... ok, it sort of classifies itself as a game, it has budgets and challenges to overcome, it's not _just_ a route designer, but I can understand the stance that this is just a transit simulator. A game like this has 3 pillars, these are the core parts of the game. Track laying, simulation, and growth. But that's about it, it really is just a route designer with a tacked on scoring system, and some major drawbacks that make even rebuilding existing train lines a bit of a challenge. The fact that existing train lines are removed is an interesting choice, but it isn't possible to recreate track in the game without abusing the fact that tunnels and viaducts basically ignore existing roads and waterways. The track laying isn't bad, per se, being able to add control points to the middle of a rail would be a nice touch, and being able to override ground level warning...

Fun game to play out fantasy of having a good rail network in USA

I would like to like this game as its shows promise. BUT after an hour of trying I haven't managed to make a single line work. The Tutorials haven't been written yet and there is no in game help. So I will come back to this but surely a simple text file of HOW TO BUILD YOUR FIRST TRAIN would be standard. Its a very complicated game with a million things to do, but if I cant even get started then why bother. Sorry but I don't have time to spend hours just learning how it works.

Cons first, because to me this is a great game: - There are no goals, no structure, no incentive to do anything outside of accomplishing your personal real-world transit fantasy. Now for some that is not a problem, in fact, that's THE selling point of the game, but for me, to be able to keep playing for a long time—and this game is designed to be played for a long time; it's a spreadsheet game with the map of the whole world—it needs to have some sort of milestones to reach, otherwise laying one track in Bangkok is no different than laying another track in New York, after a couple dozen hours. It doesn't need to even be a storyline or a rigid quest list, it just needs to be a large list of achievements so that players can get a sense of progress instead of feeling it's just a couple of repetitive actions of laying tracks and setting up lines over and over. Achievements like "connected 2 cities with more than 10 million people each", "have active service for 500,000 people a day in...

i like trains

The best game on the market if you want to build realistic transit networks in real life cities. This is the only game I have played that allows full transcontinental rail lines and local streetcars/busses operating in the same map with no compromises.

quite expensive but really fun when you get into it, if you are a fan of trains, this will be a very fun game for you. one problem is that it’s quite difficult to get into because there are no tutorials so i recommend just searching one up on youtube and you will eventually get the hang of it

You have to be a railfan or RailNerd to really get 'into' this game. I've been playing it for years, since early in the beta and I have a network from Seattle to the Guatemala border north to south and San Francisco to Berlin, Germany west to east. There are a lot of ways you can play this. You can be more realistic, down to scheduling exact departure time, or more fantasy-like and just find out "what works"without your stations either overloading or always being empty. There's no competition (once you pay off your initial loan and provided you're not losing money). This is kind of like Lego, except for trains (everything from trams to High Speed Rail to even airplanes) and you can't really disassemble what you built and start again (though you don't need to). Bit of a steep learning curve, but there's plenty of help out there for the basic functions to get you started.

Highly addictive. 3700 hrs of amusement so far!

I absolutely love this