In times like these, what we need to focus on is the things that unite us: trains, and becoming the best elite pro g*mers we can be
So comrades, let’s talk about games about trains (or heavily featuring trains)! I’ll start:
Railway Empire - probably the best one I’ve found as a successor to the Railway Tycoons, although certainly not perfect. The track-laying part is pretty satisfying, and it’s cool how city development is driven by providing them with diversity of freight. They’ve made quite a few really good updates over its life, to tweak difficulty options and also give stations with built-in switches so you don’t have to worry about tedious platform management (seriously needed). Absolutely fucking terrible UI though, and a few really baffling design decisions, but overall really fun.
Train Valley 2 - More of a puzzle game, but it’s a puzzle game about trains. It’s light and fun, with really cute graphics and all the levels are in these cool different areas that look fantastic. Great music too.
Railroad Corporation - I spent ten minutes watching some guy play this on youtube and it looked pretty bad, anyone tried it?
Workers and Resources - Soviet Republic - seems all a bit much for me but I hear really good things about it, and I gather it goes pretty heavy on the trains?
I don’t know much about train driver simulators but I know they’re out there, anyone want to chime in?
I played Workers and Resources Soviet Republic and I spent about an hour trying to figure out how railroad signaling works but eventually I got things running. It’s a game with no abstractions really, you have to get coal out of the ground, into processors, into trucks, to power plants, etc… But you can make a fully self-sufficient moneyless communist utopia (complete with lenin statue on every corner) which is pretty awesome. Lots of train types too plus ELECTRIC trains for clean energy
One of the first computer games I played as a kid was the original Railroad Tycoon.
Mini Metro counts as a train game and it’s great
The first stretch of Resident Evil Zero takes place on a train
