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Railway Empire

Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 26.01.2020

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Nordamerika, 1830: Die Vereinigten Staaten sind noch nicht den Kinderschuhen entwachsen, schon entbrennt ein erbarmungsloser Kampf um die Vorherrschaft auf den Schienen.

In Railway Empire behaupten Sie sich mit Ihrem Eisenbahnimperium gegen die gerissene Konkurrenz und führen Ihr Unternehmen erfolgreich ins 20. Jahrhundert. Errichten Sie ein ausgeklügeltes Streckennetz mit eigenen Bahnhöfen, Wartungsgebäuden, Fabriken und Sehenswürdigkeiten. Die Auswahl der Lokomotiven – über 40 historisch nachgebildete Modelle stehen zur Verfügung – beeinflusst die Effizienz Ihres Unternehmens genauso wie die Auswahl des Personals, die geschickte Organisation der Streckenführung und eine hohe Auslastung.

Die Errungenschaften fünf verschiedener Epochen bieten zahlreiche Forschungsmöglichkeiten, mit denen Ihnen mehr als 300 Erfindungen und Verbesserungen wie Sitzpolsterung, Kühlwagen oder Bordtoiletten zur Verfügung stehen. Dabei sollten Sie jedoch Ihre Konkurrenz nicht aus den Augen verlieren – bis zu drei rivalisierende Tycoons kämpfen mit Feuer, Dampf und Stahl um die Herrschaft über Gleise, Schienen und Eisenbahnen. Höchste Zeit, ihnen durch Überfälle oder Industriespionage den Tag zu vermiesen!

DLC Railway Empire - Japan	07.05.2021	12,99€
DLC Railway Empire - Down Under	08.05.2020	7,99€
DLC Railway Empire - Northern Europe	13.12.2019	7,99€
DLC Railway Empire - France	24.05.2019	9,99€
DLC Railway Empire - Germany	01.03.2019	9,99€
DLC Railway Empire - Great Britain & Ireland	14.12.2018	9,99€
DLC Railway Empire - Crossing the Andes	19.10.2018	7,99€
DLC Railway Empire - The Great Lakes	17.08.2018	7,99€
DLC Railway Empire - Mexico	08.06.2018	7,99€

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Setzt 64-Bit-Prozessor und -Betriebssystem voraus
CPU: Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.6 GHz oder AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.2 GHz
GFX: nVidia GeForce GTX460 oder AMD Radeon HD5870 (2048MB VRAM mit Shader Model 5.0)
RAM: 4 GB RAM
Software: Windows 7 SP1 oder Windows 8.1 oder Windows 10(64bit Versionen)
HD: 7 GB verfügbarer Speicherplatz
SFX: DirectX Kompatible Sound Karte mit aktuellen Treiber
DX: Version 11
LANG: Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Russisch, Chinesisch

Setzt 64-Bit-Prozessor und -Betriebssystem voraus
CPU: Intel Core i5 2400s @ 2.5 GHz oder AMD FX 4100 @ 3.6
GFX: nVidia GeForce GTX 680 oder AMD Radeon HD7970 oder besser (2048MB VRAM oder mehr, mit Shader Model 5.0)
RAM: 8 GB RAM
Software: Windows 7 SP1 oder Windows 8.1 oder Windows 10(64bit Versionen)
HD: 7 GB verfügbarer Speicherplatz
SFX: DirectX Kompatible Sound Karte mit aktuellen Treiber
DX: Version 11
LANG: Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Russisch, Chinesisch

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Verfasst: 20.04.22 23:14

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49389 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.09.21 18:55

Ein schönes Spiel . Wäre noch schöner wenn man die Schwierigkeitstufen verändern könnte und etwas mehr Zeit zum mitfahren auf der Lok hätte .
Gruß ! Paul

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1811 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.08.21 17:09

Absolut benutzerunfreundlich, erklärt nichts, Züge machen VÖLLIG unlogische Dinge, etc. Man ist besser beraten, wenn man Railroad Tycoon 3 kauft, da hat man auch nicht diesen Comic-Optik-Mist.

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1521 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.07.21 04:00

Eigentlich sieht das Spiel zu beginn ja recht interessant aus. Die Grafik ist simpel und die Steuerung nicht praktisch. Ein freies Spielen ist nicht möglich, da einem immer wieder zwingende Vorgaben daran hindern. Regulär kämpft man gegen die Gegner und einem vollen Pflichtenheft unter starken Zeitdruck, dies verhindert meiner Ansicht nach den Genuss am ganzen Spiel. Die Werkzeuge sind nicht praktisch und kompliziert in der Handhabung. Positiv sind die schönen Lokomotiven.

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669 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.06.21 14:52

Sehr schönes Spiel.

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6399 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.05.21 20:40

Einige Stunden Spielspaß bis zum komplexen Gleisbau. Kann ich nur weiter empfehlen!

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2316 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.04.21 23:18

Macht hart süchtig xd

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1445 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.04.21 07:55

keine besonderen neuen Spielimpulse gegenüber Railroad Tycoon. Die maps sind zu klein. Die Konstruktion von mehrgleisigen Strecken ist schwer zu lernen. Zahlreiche Spielelemente sind schlecht oder nicht erklärt. Sehr schön sind die Lokomotiven.

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2133 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.03.21 19:56

Ich habe das Spiel im Epic Store kostenfrei erhalten, habe es getestet und bin süchtig geworden. Weil ich primär Steam nutze, habe ich mir es mir gleich für Steam nochmal gekauft und es ist jeden Cent wert. Ich habe gleich die Kampagne ein zweites Mal durchgespielt (jetzt wusste ich ja wie alles funktioniert) und es hat tatsächlich Spass gemacht, da beim zweiten Mal natürlich Präsident als Wertung herauskommen musste ;)

Railway Empire ist eine Klasse Aufbau- und Wirtschaftsimulation mit toller Atmosphäre und interessanter Kampagne. Die Simulation ist durchdacht und plausibel. Städte wachsen bei guter Versorgung und eine ausgefeiltes Versorgungsnetz mit perfekt gesetzten Signalen kann ich mir mit Stolz ansehen. Ich hatte nur nie das Gefühl das Pannen weniger werden aufgrund von Innovationen und Heizern.

Die Kampagne hat mir gut gefallen, da sie die spannende Geschichte der Erschließung Amerikas mit Eisenbahnnetz zeigt. Die Missionen sind sehr abwechslungsreich und angenehm fordernd und stressig. Leider suche ich noch ein DLC mit Kampagne/Geschichte aber das gibts wohl nicht. Die DLCs bieten vorwiegend Szenarien. Die Musik ist stimmig und macht eine tolle Atmosphäre zusammen mit kräftigen Zugsounds und Gewitter, Industrie oder Kutschenklappern.

Railway Empire fängt zwar gemütlich und leicht fordernd an, ist aber -was Szenarien angeht- schwer zu meistern im Late Game. Ähnlich wie bei Anno-Spielen muss die ganze Karte erhalten um 3-4 Städte zu versorgen. Ich kann Railway Empire uneingeschränkt allen Liebhabern des Genres empfehlen, die auch damit umgehen können, dass in den meisten Spielweisen ein Ziel unter vorgegebener Zeit zu erreichen ist.

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4623 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.01.21 21:28

Entspanntes Aufbauspiel: Denke nach, investiere, plane, probiere, verliere und gewinne. Keine Piraten, die Dich überfallen, keine Aliens, die unbesiegbar sind und Dir den Spass rauben.

Die Bedienung könnte etwas intuitiver sein, das Spiel selbst macht - auch nach 4 Wochen noch - Freude. Gut investiertes Geld, wenn DU es eher ruhiger als CoD Zombies magst.

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9062 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.12.20 15:03

Schöne Grafik. Handelssimulation schlüssig, breit, mit Aktien, Personalmanagement. Gutes Spiel.

Ab einer gewissen Spieldauer unrealistisch, weil das ganze Land (z. B. USA) spinnennetzartig mit Zuglinien gefüllt ist. Das beschädigt die Fantasie - niemand stellt sich die USA um 1860 so vor, wie sie im Spiel gezeigt wird. Man sieht überall Züge durch die Gegend flitzen. Das Ganze wird zur Fummelei, wenn man von der KI nicht aufgekauft werden will. Man muss irgendwie noch mehr Linien hereinquetschen, um mithalten zu können.

Es wäre auch gut, noch eine weitere, langsamere Geschwindigkeitsstufe einzuführen.

Viele Grüße,
D. Techel

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1429 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.12.20 16:34

Ich hab es übers Jahr verteilt immer wieder versucht und angespielt, aber es macht einfach keinen Spaß. Ich wollte wirklich, dass es mir gefällt, und kann nicht mal sagen, woran es jetzt genau liegt. Am oberflächlichen Wirtschaftssystem? Den klobigen und unübersichtlichen Menüs mit ihren zahlreichen unnötigen Features? Daran, dass die KI strunzdumm ist? Oder vielleicht an mangelnder Abwechslung. Wahrscheinlich von allem ein bisschen.

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5816 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.11.20 20:19

macht Laune bei Corona

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155 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.10.20 02:22

im Grunde ein tolles Spiel aber nach dem Kauf ist mir wiedermal bewusst geworden das wieder jeder mist als kostenpflichtiges Addon heraus gebracht wird.

Dank dieses schlechten Beispiels werde ich auch port royal 4 nicht holen da ich davon ausgehe das auch da wieder das gleiche Prinzip angewand wird...

fazit gutes spiel aber zu viel Geld für zu wenig

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2586 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.09.20 17:11

Hallo Zusammen,
Das Spiel ist recht amüsant.
Auch wenn ich nur 43 spiel Stunden habe, kann ich wohl behaupten das es ganz OK ist.
Der Einstieg in das Spiel ist sehr leicht und angenehm.
Die Kampagne, ist mir Persönlich zu KURZ und zu einfach gestrickt genauso wie die Story.
Ein weiterer Punkt ist, das einfach nur bezahl Inhalte auf den Markt gebracht werden die nicht viel Inhalt bieten.

Fazit: Netter kurzer Zeit vertreib und das war es.

Wunsch: Ein Multiplayer wäre wünschenswert gewesen.

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684 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.07.20 21:50

Railway Empire macht es einem nicht so leicht. Auf der einen Seite macht es irgendwie Spaß die Städte mittels Züge zu verbinden. Auf der anderen Seite ist das Spiel einfach viel zu seicht und repetitiv. Wenn die Kampagne nicht halbwegs solide erzählt gewesen wäre hätte ich das Spiel schon vorher abgebrochen. Nach zwei von fünf Szenarien hatte ich für mich einfach schon alles gesehen, was das Spiel zu bieten hat. Da dies nach 4-5 Stunden der Fall war, finde ich das etwas mager.

3/5

Die Preise für die DLC scheinen mir auch etwas zu hoch angesetzt.

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3559 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 13.07.20 07:24

Für Anfänger sind die Aufgaben viel zu schwer manchmal nicht zu lösen . Es gibt nur Mittel und Schwer. Ein Einstellung leicht ist nicht vorhanden Schade!

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1297 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.05.20 20:03

Ein Klassiker wie, Railroad Tycoon, erwacht hier zu neuen Leben!!
Eine angenehme Atmosphäre prägen das Spiel und eine fordernde Wirtschaftssimulation sowie die Möglichkeit,
diese durch ein komplexes Schienennetz zu Verbinden, ist der Kern des Spiels.
Klare kauf Empfehlung!!!

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5684 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.05.20 16:53

Sehr schönes Spiel mit Langzeitmotivation und Flair. Empfehlenswert für alle die gerne etwas aufbauen möchten.

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1988 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.02.20 09:27

Railway Empire ist schon gut 2 Jahre alt und ich habe es auch relativ kurz nach dem Release bereits eine kurze Zeit lang gespielt. Allerdings sprang der Funke damals nicht so richtig über, da ich das Signalsystem als zu kompliziert empfand und mir dadurch schnell die Lust verging.
Ende letzten Jahres habe ich dem Spiel noch einmal eine Chance gegeben, zumal ich die Option entdeckt hatte, dass man das Schienensystem auch auf “einfach” statt “komplex” stellen kann - somit fahren die Züge durcheinander durch und das lästige “Signal-Platzieren” und “Richtig-herum-Einstellen” fällt weg.
Was bleibt, ist ein wunderbar flüssiges Spielerlebnis, das Laune macht und mich stundenlang fesselt. Ich platziere also Bahnhöfe in Städten und Landbetrieben, richte Zugverbindungen ein und versuche, den Bürgern der Städte die Waren zu liefern, die sie nachfragen. Die Städte wachsen und die Nachfrage verändert sich, auch Industriegebäude, Sehenswürdigkeiten und Museen sind zu errichten.
Inzwischen habe ich mir in einem der unzähligen Sales alle DLCs zugelegt und “arbeite” mich nun durch die Szenarien der verschiedenen geographischen Schauplätze wie zum Beispiel Großbritannien, Deutschland oder auch Mexiko. Auch die Kampagne in den USA habe ich mit Freude durchgespielt. Was mir ebenfalls gefällt, ist die grafische Gestaltung des Spiels. Die 3D-Grafik ist als zweckmäßig bis nett zu bezeichnen - die Grafiken im UI, wie zum Beispiel Bilder von Konkurrenten oder Angestellten, in einem hübschen Comiclook gehalten. Alles in allem kann ich Railway Empire allen Aufbaufans nur empfehlen.

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146 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.04.22 15:30

Good game, better that railroad cooperation but and as good as Transport Fever.

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1004 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.04.22 03:24

The interfaces for some of the most crucial aspects of the game were needlessly convoluted. Having trains pick up and unload specific goods between cities was far too long navigating unclear menus, the levelling up of cities was clunky and badly laid out. It felt like it took a long time to accomplish any single thing in game.

Pretty quickly it took all the satisfaction out of planning fun trade routes. I would rather a Train Factorio sim mod, as at least the interfaces were navigable.

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5191 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.03.22 13:11

Really nicely done transportation game. A must have for all train lovers out there :)

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19012 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.03.22 11:56

The best railway game currently I've played.

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220 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.03.22 16:41

I will NEVER buy anything published by Kalypso Media again.

I got a letter from their lawyers claiming i illegaly downloaded and distributed their newest game Deciples.
Wich i did not do, up to that point i didnt know of that games existance.

They have been doing this for over 10 years (you can look it up on google and find a lot of material on it)
So im sure that they know about it.

What a terrible way to treat your paying customers.
Falsely accusing them of piracy and fining them 2500€ (800€ out of court settlement).

I had to contact a lawyer and it was a very stressfull situation.

I hope for nothing but the worst for this company.

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6564 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.03.22 22:08

The game has beautiful and realistic landscapes. This is the total of good stuff.
As for the bad things, there are several. I think the worst is the difficulty in making crossings or derivations (switches) of tracks, when duplicated. On sloping terrain, it's almost impossible. There are places where I just can't make a level crossing. I spent more time trying to assemble the tracks than playing.
Another annoying thing is the erase tool (bulldozer). It's not very accurate and there's just no way to undo a deletion by mistake.
In any scenario it is easy to have about 40 trains and several stations and it is difficult to keep track of everything. It should be easier.
If anyone asked me, I'd say no, I won't indicate the purchase of this game.

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34814 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.03.22 19:25

I would highly recommend this game it works really smooth. No glitches or bugs that I have discovered. If you like railroads. This game is a lot of fun. The only thing I would like to see them add would be more products.

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904 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.02.22 18:57

Nice game, if you liked the Railroad Tycoon series you will enjoy this one too.

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1193 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.02.22 04:31

Takes a bit of getting used to and for that, thank you for the guides contributors that explain the intricacies you need to learn so you can enjoy running your trains. While rail network is important, if you want high efficiency, it's not hard to get used to the rules and the network itself does not have to be exquisite in order to enjoy the game, though it's quite important to read the guide for sign and switches, so to avoid frustration and/or stop playing the game.

I consider it to be as good as RTT2, which I enjoy a LOT, though Railway Empire stands on it's own just fine.

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4910 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.02.22 21:06

One of my favorite games! Not just a train game but a city builder (sorta). This game is addictive and challenging to those who seek perfection. Speed and efficiency is what it takes to dominate the competition

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9905 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.02.22 21:13

Looks like I've been playing a bit more than I thought I would...

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5213 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.02.22 20:06

It is the perfect game to relax while drinking coffee on a sunday morning.

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1874 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.01.22 16:17

Scratches the Railroad Tycoon itch. Ton of re-playability with different start dates, maps, scenarios, sandbox and challenges among other options. Build tracks, trains and railroads to your hearts content. Takes some effort to figure signals out and still not sure I am setting them optimally... but there is great joy coming up with workable solutions to signalling dilemnas. Still great fun and time passes fast when engaged with this game. A must have game for railroading enthusiasts,

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1681 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.01.22 00:03

Faults in the path to depots cause all trains to want to take the same lane in 4 lane depots. Massive unavoidable traffic jams where in the real world trains would take open platforms. Game breaking IMO. Otherwise fun game.

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83 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.01.22 16:53

An alternative to Transport Fever / Transport Tycoon that focuses on the economic aspects and not so much on building itself.

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4106 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.01.22 19:02

Fun game still learning mechanicks but emjoyable for 66 year old

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6001 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.01.22 13:00

I'd never played a train simulator before, but I picked this up on a whim when it was on sale a couple of weeks back. I have to admit, it's a lot more enjoyable than I expected it to be. Planning your railways and routes is not without its challenges, but the game in general provides for a more languid experience than a lot of the 4x games that I typically play.

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255 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.01.22 09:36

While it does satisfy that Railroad Tycoon itch, it stumbles in it's execution. The initial tutorial doesn't explain the differences in city buildings or city demands. Track management is touchy (ex: Upgrading a station to allow a 2nd track requires you to re-lay track if you want to use the new line effectively. Probably just me.) Train AI is simplified and dumb to destination demands and manually setting cargo cars is tedious as the train will not accept the new orders until the end of its current route.

Game was part of a Humble Bundle.

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5745 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.01.22 21:33

Sort of like popcorn. Starts small, a few kernels pop and before you know it the bag multiplies in size to the point of overfill. In terms of this game. You start out with a few trains and tracks and before you know it you have so many that its a big mess which drives an OCD person crazy. Overall, good game, just gets bit crowded.

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3180 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.01.22 10:14

It is a cool game, however it is very annoying (for some a deal breaker) the fact that you have to set for each train at which line it will stop. This leads to a lot of unnecessary and unreal micromanagement.
Normally it should choose the first available one.

In rest the game looks good.

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1182 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.01.22 06:51

Got this for Christmas....... Anybody that's a fan of the railway,and the glory days of rail.( I was born and raised in a rail family). Great grandad was a CNR engineer on the Steam days and Grandad took over for him, I got my first ride on his old ride as a toddler the day he retired it and moved onto the big diesel electrics. Games like this are all too rare and this ones a gem. Got a great deal of fun involved with some good hard strategy.

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11782 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.01.22 17:18

yes, but it needs much better tutorials. I've had to watch many hours of youtube videos to figure it out and i'm still puzzled by some things.

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296 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.01.22 17:17

Calypso seems incabable of providing a game that is so intricate to progress. It's like going back to the 80s. Sid Meirs efforts are far superior, don't waste your money

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6647 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.12.21 23:53

Yea I love this game, and I don't wana go into details of whats good and whats wrong, I think i can sum it up quite nicely:
Id love if they made this game have MORE and BIGGER.
Easier way for modders to do their magic not only maps, more vehicles, more cities, industries, resources, bigger maps, stations, trips, etc.
I want this game to feel bigger and better, its fun, its good, but its not something i like to play everyday, seems to shallow.

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Verfasst: 24.12.21 06:53

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second live for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☑ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☑ 8
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2838 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 13.12.21 23:58

I love trains and train video games of all types, and for the price, this game is quite the letdown. It's pretty much Sid Meier's Railroads! all over again, perhaps a little more complicated. The best part of this game is the routing difficulty, but then it seems to get buggy at times, so what usually works doesn't always. One thing I have always found frustrating with every transport game I've ever played is that the business interface is not scalable; so as you near completing a level, the amount of vehicles leads to total chaos when it comes to managing your whole fleet vs just a single vehicle/route. With today's ability to process data, there needs to be a way to upgrade all trains at once as well as to be able to sort routes in the list with filters like product type, engine type, line type (passenger/freight) and so on.
I agree with many that the cartoon competition and what they say is just rude. I thoroughly enjoy the built-in history lesson, but I frankly just want to slap the fat whore silly. However, I do like choosing between the characters that each have pros and cons.
Finally, I don't understand the point of the maintenance station. If you build a maintenance building at every station, and the trains end up breaking down in the middle of the line anyway and don't actually pull into a maintenance station, what function does it actually serve?
The potential is there, the graphics are beautiful, and there are many good aspects of this game, but it really feels like a repeat of 20 years ago, and that version, frankly, worked better.

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2350 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.11.21 15:50

Recommended – 7.5

The Good: To start off, the campaign is used as a tutorial and tells a brief bit of history about was going on in the different time periods across the USA, in relation to railroads. After completing the campaign, there’s lots more to do via scenarios/challenges, open play with an economy, and a sandbox mode. In every game, the sounds of the trains and music keep to immersed for hours. You can even ride along on the train routes you create, which can be nice and relaxing. The main task, of designing and building railroads, is implemented very well with simple clicks and drag & drops. Also, if you make a mistake or want to make a change, you can just bulldoze for a full refund and try again. As you meet the requirements for towns/cities, they will grow in population and physically change appearance on the map. You can also have computer opponents that will build competing rail lines and try remove you from the competition.

The Bad: I found the best parts were early and mid-game. After that, the interface does not scale very well towards managing 100’s of trains/routes/towns/warehouses/staff. I often found it tedious and time consuming when discovering an area of congestion, trying to discover the exact cause, and making the small adjustments to remedy the situation. A lot of management concepts, that work great early/mid game, just break down once your empire gets so large. For example, the staff personality interaction for a train. Early on, it’s interesting trying to balance the four staff members for each train to get bonuses for the train. However, this becomes unwieldly once you get over 50+ trains, and just forget it if you ever lose a staff member, have to find out what train they were on and find a proper replacement.

Something else to keep in mind is that it looks like every map is limited in size, having a cap on the total area and towns/production places there can be. Once I finished the campaign, I wanted to play free mode across the entire USA, but found that the map was altered and many towns and farms, from the campaign, were missing and I was disappointed.

Overall: I’d Recommend this game to anyone who’s interested in managing your own train company. Even more so if you like the time period 1830-1930 and the whistle and roar of a train engine.

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3562 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.11.21 14:25

In a long list of industry/railway simulations, this game perfoms quite honorably. Gameplay is efficient, track-laying is occasionally quirky but generally pleasant, art looks good and music is relaxing.

However, things get repetitive after a while, and scenarios feel very constricting in how you are allowed to expand your company. The DLCs are expensive compared to the base game, but do not seem to change much besides train models and environments (I did not try them all).

Summary: recommended on sale, discouraged at full price.

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282 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.11.21 02:53

If you play the campaign, you have to wait to be told to perform tasks or else it won't recognize them as complete. Signal system is terrible. It is easier to design actual railroads than play this game.

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5282 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.11.21 17:46

This game is has a bit of a learning curve that makes 4 a changeling game but also holds your attention and makes it playable for hours @ a time.

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484 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.11.21 08:56

good game though this thing keeps asking for a review... here is the stupid review...

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258 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.09.21 20:05

Lacks the depth of Railroad Tycoon 1 & 2. Can spam 4 or 5 trains to deliver goods from the same generator to the same city. That's not fun, that's bad game balance.
Stupidly easy to make money, there are barely any expenses, it's all profit. (One example is refunds on your locomotives you bought 10 years ago that are outdated! To upgrade you just pay the difference, sometimes you even get money back for updating!)
Stock market stuff is a joke, no serious effort was put into designing it.
Rivals are SOOO annoying. Turned off the volume for them, would have been better to turn off their prompts.
Constant auctions is super annoying too.

This is not a tycoon game, like RRT 1 & 2. Nor an economic sim game like Capitalism 2. This is weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee fun with trains game.

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3604 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.09.21 17:42

Great game, very relaxing and fun to play.

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1048 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.09.21 15:07

First Impressions

A game that tries to re-create the Railroad Tycoon series. Comes close enough in most areas but lacks some magic. Still on the fence about this one but will keep coming back to it to explore a bit more.

For a new player, routing busy networks can be hard, so when you start you may find it easier to switch the game difficulty from realistic to normal.

If you liked the original Railroad Tycoon series then you could try this on sale if there is a good deal with the DLC bundle.

Positive

Track building and route setup is fairly easy

Many different maps and scenarios if you buy the game in a bundle with all the (pricey) DLC.

Negative

Kalypso launcher another pointless game launcher.

Cartoon characters are used for the players and AI. I think it would have improved immersion to use more realistic historic personalities and tone to the game. Games like this can take the player back into history and that would make this game memorable, not cliché cartoon characters.

Track laying difficulties in realistic mode it can be hard to get good efficient layouts that support heavy train traffic. Cannot do a dual-track layout and all the switches between tracks have to be manually inserted. A steep learning curve here.

Financial world is basic with less scope than the RRT series. No fluctuation in interest rates and less scope to manipulate the financial market. Stock market and company shares generate no dividends as far as I can tell. Also no option to raise additional share capital.

Research tree could be better organized. You have to keep checking when you have enough points to unlock a discovery: would be better if you could choose a discovery to research next and it unlocks when enough points are available.

DLC prices there's a lot of DLC at quite high prices compared to the base game. Probably best to go for a bundle with DLC if it is heavily discounted in a sale, otherwise it's not good value for money.

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91 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.09.21 05:43

The way signals work is awful.

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42918 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.09.21 17:43

If you like railroad simulators, this is one of the best. It is both challenging and fun, if not a bit frustrating at times. Once you master signals and can focus on routes, the game takes off. I highly recommend looking at some of the YouTube videos on the subject of signals. Several of the videos by content creator Adekyn helped me get a handle on warehouses, stations, tracks, and signaling. I have all the DLC packages and am working my way through them to the new Japan DLC pack. The art, music, and gameplay are all excellent. The clock is your nemesis. The scenarios and campaigns have time-dependent tasks. There is nothing more frustrating than watching your train nearing the station with its vital load of goods as the clock runs out. I have had a great time playing Railway Empire and I bet you will too.

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3459 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.09.21 17:30

Really enjoying this game! You can do stuff like buy failing businesses like wheat farms at auction for a reduced price, expand them and then set up a fast moving supply chain to a major city. You also have AI competitors which you can affect positively or negatively - they all have share prices which you can buy (eventually being able to take over or liquidate them). There's also commodity trading, a tech tree and factories. Oh... and trains!

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435 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.08.21 13:56

Whether I'd recommend this product, or not, would depend on what you're looking for in a game.

As a mature gamer with a major interest in history, I'm looking for games which can offer an immersive experience in different (usually historical) settings. Years ago RT3 did a surprisingly good job of achieving this, so I was hoping this game would be a kind of sequel, in some ways it is, but in many others it really is not.

The biggest turn off for me are the (incredibly annoying) 'rivals', who have each been given 'personalities' of the most grating, stereotyped and childish kind imaginable, along with ridiculous cartoon depictions that pop up on your screen every few minutes, when you're trying to concentrate on other aspects of the game - like building rail lines. There seems to me to be a major misalignment between the other details of the game (some of which are superb and do a great job of creating period 'feel'), and these annoying, and very intrusive cartoons. They also really don't 'fit', for example in the 1830s US campaign, one of these rivals is a crude cartoon pastiche of a 1930's Al Capone mobster, complete with 1930's slang and a crummy 'Italian-American' accent!

It's as if the creators don't understand what kind of people are likely to buy this game. Mostly, I should imagine middle aged, or older people with a specific interest in trains and/or history, who want a (very) mentally challenging and atmospheric, but not necessarily fast paced game. They want detailed scenarios which can be solved using a number of different approaches, and not one where you're constantly feeling rushed into pressing the 'right' button 'on time', if they wanted action games that's what they'd buy!

Reasonable historical accuracy is also, I'm sure, important to many such gamers (I know it is to me). Luckily, I'm no train buff, but I should imagine any playing this must be constantly gritting their teeth to do so, the glaring historical (and geographical!) issues are annoying me as it is. Let's be honest, look at the name of the game, look at what it claims to portray... I'd be amazed if at least half the people buying this game AREN'T train buffs!

RT3, whilst no where near 100% accurate in any sense, seemed to get the balance of historical recreation/nostalgia and intelligent game play just right, whereas the creators of Railway Empire have got many things spot on, but missed their target on one or two, key points, which wreck the rest. It's a big shame because there must be a great many middle aged, older, as well as more serious minded younger people, who are seeking games with long term interest, combined with atmosphere and historical interest, and there is a distinct shortage of such games created.

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7875 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.08.21 21:50

I've been playing this one for a couple of years and I keep coming back to it so figured it's about time I send kudos to the devs.

I've played RRT, RRT2, RRT3, Railroads!, and Railway Empire. I must say, Railway Empire is hands down the best of all of them. Just a wonderful sim and I highly recommend.

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5503 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.08.21 01:33

Railway Empire is a complete waste of time, I have played 65+ hours and is not intuitive in any shape or form. This is the game, (click, click, click, click, click, etc) nothing happens, can't get trains to do the right motions, they get stuck, you would think you can get them unstuck. The trains get more confused, like Thomas the Train that they don't listen. The in game tutorials don't help.

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4688 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.07.21 19:11

The concept is incredible but the AI incorporated into the routes the trains choose to take is infuriating.

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26 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.07.21 08:06

I think I got this game in a humble bundle so I decided to try it out and heck I can't even beat the tutorial because I don't know what they want me to do because they don't explain things well

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262 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.06.21 22:30

some UI confusion, and railroad management.
Its better on visual level and some production to gamemodes.

Then its a decent game?
but could have a much smoother selection and information screens for the gameplay, as it's kind of a bottleneck for me to fully enjoy it. The tutorial helped a bit, the hints did not and made things worse. Still having some problems with leveling tracks and management between heights as they don't always blend well. (maybe there is a filter that helps ingame just not used it or had any need). Also a lot done in the background in the UI, which I'm not liking, to that of trains that will collide or stop for little reasons more so when the tracks become more complicated.

Really wish the UI was better, to know what you selected and sometimes have to go through multiple windows and still don't know what is selected. there is a sign option that was added at some point wich helps the railroad, but sometimes it doesn't work and doesn't say why it doesn't work nor is always helpful, also if some special tracks could solve this if not done with signals and such. Since that needs quite an improvement in my opinion or you have to play it a bit differently/workarounds.

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12470 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.06.21 00:55

Railway Empire is one of the best simulation games I have ever played. It is extremely well balanced and beautifully presented. In Railway Empire you lead your train business by creating complex realistic rail networks, growing cities based on supply and demand, transporting goods and passenger, while competing with AI and against a list of goals (profit, transport volume, resource generation, buying out a competitor, etc.). Stand alone version is worth the asking price at any time but DLC are often on sale add interesting touches from around the world and often new game mechanics that force you to adjust the play style. At this point I finished all but Japan DLC and all were very fun. If you are into building complex connected systems and making them work, this game is for you. Highly recommended.

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362 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.06.21 06:09

One of the most complex AI to play with. Highly addictive & the scenarios are fun to play with

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1989 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.06.21 19:23

Awesome building-management-simulation-strategy tycoon game! Questioned myself for why i didn't started to this before...

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211 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.06.21 10:00

This game is confusing to me and I find it kind of hard to understand. The tutorials if you can find them don't get the message across in a way I can understand it. I bought it for the Australian content but its not particularly Australian and just isn't fun.

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1357 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.06.21 10:51

The game looks great, sounds great and has solid foundations. It's even fun to play most of the time. There are plenty of small things that I'm not a fan of but I can live with, there is one thing that is keeping me from recommending the game over similar titles however: line management.
The game encourages the use of multiple lines with signals and switches to allow trains to pass but then you have to manually specify which track each train should use, otherwise rather than waiting for a train to pass on the free line, trains will just stop entirely and never move again. This leads to either building one line per train or spending most of the game setting waypoints to control which lines to use.
If the AI could simply switch to an available line if their target one is blocked (unless told otherwise by the user) and there was an option to prioritise express trains over freight the game would be great and I would happily change my review. This is a basic feature and having to micromanage waypoints in this manner turns the game from a fun management sim to a tedious one. I can overlook the frankly weak competitor AI, difficult to manage recruitment system and unclear UI among other issues because the core gameplay is satisfying enough but this is one issue that tips the scales too far against it.

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34 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.05.21 17:19

To confusing, and a very poor interface for me to use and understand. patience ran short trying to figure it out. The tutorial lesson its terrible and does a terrible job of explaining what to do.

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2927 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.05.21 02:03

This is one of the most beautiful games I have ever played!

A perfect combination between solving mind-boggling logistic/business problems and having soul-relaxing train trips.

Took me around 20 hours to beat the campaign and I had so much fun. The game is so captivating so that I spent most of my time at work thinking about how to tinker my railway system to make it cheaper and more efficient. Made I wonder if I signed up the wrong job :)

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107 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.04.21 22:36

Really wanted to like this game, but in reality there's just many other games you can play which do things better than this game does when we speak about railroad/transport tycoon games. I have played for example Sid Meier's railroad a looooong time ago and this is indeed better than that game nowadays, but not by a huge margin. The biggest problem I have with this game is that its not a very good tycoon game compared to other games like this. My all time favorite transport tycoon game is Transport Fever 2 and it's a lot lot LOT better compared to Railroad Empire by many different reasons. Here are some examples:

The Good:
- Good building tools which are easy to understand: not still as good as Transport Fever 2's building tools but still pretty good
- Okayish cartoon(ish) artwork: If you like cartoonish UI's and characters and other artwork, this is pretty good in that regard but for me is not visually as pleasing compared to very realistic and sharp/mature artwork which Transport Fever 2 has.
- Campaign which has storyline: Quite limited amount of storyline and campaign length compared to Transport Fever 2 but still enough for a game like this. IMO Transport Fever 2 has better HISTORICAL storyline compared to this game.
- Trains are detailed and well executed in this game: Train models and sounds are nice, but their physics are very ''arcady''. By this I mean that these train don't really have any weight to the (trains in this game accelerate super fast, they move super fast even when they are at full load, trans almost completely ignore tight turns and just continue as it was nothing). Transport Fever 2 in other hand has very good physics, where trans actually behave like in real life and trains have their own mass and payload. Turns, hills, bridges etc affect speed in Transport Fever 2 heavily. Trains in this game feel like they are some kind on model trains, which just look/sound cool. To this I also want to say that Transport Fever 2 also has awesome train modeling and sound design.
- Good tutorial system (IMO Transport Fever 2 has better tutorial than this game but Railway Empire has also pretty good tutorials for new players)
- Good research system: For me this might be one of those things this game does really well, because in Transport Fever 2 there isn't really any specific research system, but things unlock in specific year. So basically vehicle companies research and develop the vehicles for you in Transport Fever 2, but in this game you need to purchase and research things by yourself. In my opinion Transport Fever 2's vehicle purchasing system just feels more realistic but this is quite subjective question because both games do this aspect really well. Still gotta give Railway Empire some credit for this aspect.
- Voice acting is pretty nice: not as good as in Transport Fever 2 but not bad either IMO.

The Bad:
- A lot of DLC's to buy in order to enjoy this game fully: meanwhile Transport Fever 2 has NO PAID DLC's and that game feels a lot more complete than this game, plus Transport Fever 2 has more content by itself (not only trains)
- Very repetitive gameplay/scenarios/campaign: You manage trains and lines and build train infrastructure which is okay, but with these kind on managing tools this game becomes just pretty boring and tiresome at some point. Transport Fever 2 in other hand had very good variety of different gameplay mechanics where in order to be successful you had to plan your rail network quite carefully and integrate other transport to your railway system. For me Transport Fever 2 just has more polished and interesting gameplay mechanics compared to Railway Empire
- Very poor management and upgrading systems: When exploring and looking at the train routes, this is visually very awkward and frankly very poorly designed. In Transport Fever 2 it was really easy to see which routes the trains run, which lines they belong to and what they carry. Transport Fever 2 even has full, well integrated transport line list (not only trains but also other transport systems as well like buss lines and tram lines) where you can see at which point the trains run at specific line and you could see all the lines/train in one list/interface and easily manage them. In addition, Transport Fever 2 even has the ability to put colors on train lines, making it easy to see what resources are going where and which train is going on which route (in addition to this, you even have the ability to color all your vehicles on different lines in Transport Fever 2). Managing and upgrading trains in this game has been made really awkward and difficult to understand, the best way is to just upgrade all trains to the latest model which you have researched from the menu, but switching / updating individual trains is really bad compared to Transport Fever 2.
- Most of Railway Empire's content/campaign/scenarios are based on the 19th century, so if you’re more interested in things like electric trains and other modern train sets then this isn’t the game for you. Transport Fever 2 has trains/history from the early 19th century to the present day. So Railway Empire is a game that is completely focused on trains and building train tracks, but still contains less content compared to Transport Fever 2 which in addition to trains had planes, ships, trucks, buses, trams, roads and infrastructure construction etc.
- Poor UI: This game's UI is simple but lacks a lot of useful information and IMO is too simplified for a tycoon game. I think that they wanted to give this game a ''mainstream look'' which made this game seem simple and easy to understand for average people, but at the same time this game lacks a lot of UI elements and managing options Transport Fever 2 had. This UI in short is not that ''powerful'' to use when we talk about managing your stuff in-game. Transport Fever 2 had probably the best UI in a tycoon game I have ever seen but this game might have the most basic, non-deep UI system I have ever seen in a tycoon game and not in a good way. I want powerful tools which help me to manage my trains, routes, lines, infrastructure, money, tracks, company, employees ect. Also the demand-supply system in this game is badly designed and confusing, because for me it was really confusing to understand/see what resources cities actually want and what they produce from a specific resource. This was really easy to understand in Transport Fever 2 and that game gives a good amount of information about production without even opening sub-menus.

So in short this game isn't bad but for a tycoon game I really expected more than this. This game has some serious flaws which keep me from recommending this game, especially when you can just play Transport Fever 2 instead than playing this. I might sound like a real Transport Fever 2 fanboy, but my honest opinion is that Transport Fever 2 is just simply a better game than this on many different levels. If you REALLY like trans and train tycoon games then you might enjoy this game, but even for the most hardcore rail fans this game might not be even that good even in their eyes.

Not recommended.

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1033 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.04.21 19:10

A very enjoyable train-eco sim. Closer to the Sid Meier Railroads game than something like OpenTTD.

+ Good sound and graphics.
+ Well designed track placement and terrain manipulation systems.
+ Simple. Not too micro-manage-y
+ Good number of campaigns in the base game.
+ Runs well on Linux
- Somewhat janky economy/competitors system. Easily abused.
- May be too simplified for a train sim enthusiast. This isn't TTD

Not tried any DLCs yet, but the base game is quite good on its own. Good for casual sessions.
Personally biased score : 7+/10

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266 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.04.21 08:05

Very frustrating to play. The demand that cities have for products is highly illogical and annoying to deal with, especially as the signaling and rail construction systems are finnicky and need constant micromanagement.

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298 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.04.21 01:06

As a player who loved staying up late playing railroad tycoon this game definitely brought great memories. It has the same tycoon feel with a more in depth play that offers challenges beyond connecting cities. The scenarios are a great tutorial but offer enough challenge to feel meaningful. I would definitely recommend this game to any railroad tycoon alumni as well as players who enjoy city building games.

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661 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.04.21 17:23

The game is a quite interesting successor of the old Railroad Tycoon series.

One of the major reasons to buy it, was Linux support, which is brought in natively.
For sure I read some of the other reviews and was aware to face some issues...but...none of them happened to me. In fact, most of the mentioned issues are actually patched away by the enthusiastic dev-team.
Another part of the negative reviews targeted for Kalypso, but I decided to watch the game and the developers instead judging a publisher for other games. And I was right.

Railway Empire is done quite well, has an insteresting storyline and offers a lot of content. First of all is a little tutorial, when you start your first mission. You'll get guided step-by-step into the business, so the overvhelming bunch of informations got chopped into suiting pieces. Regarding bad reviews or negative videos, I guess some of those folks never tried to do the tutorial, because most of their complains might have disappeared otherwise. I do not agree with them and think Railway Empire is worth a try.

For sure I did not buy full price, but there is a sale every now and then, and you get a quite polished and updated product for your enternainment. I thought about buying the complete version, but the DLC's are mostly maps...some with very few added trains and as I read, they are still showing american basic stuff, so i spared them. There is a workshop, so you could get other maps for no fee if you like to.

All in all, it is fun to play, the mechanics are well equiped and working. There is kind of a comic style, but that's influence of our time. Very rare new games do avoid comic style AI or advisors actually, so no big deal.
What I really liked was the easy building of railways, in opposition of other rail games that have that part built like a technical simulation. So I am able to concentrate on trade, on routes, on building up a business instead of doing a master for groundworks.

Recommand it? Yes, if you could grab it on a sale and like Railroad Tycoon games.

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3555 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.03.21 04:08

Fills the niche left empty since Railroad Tycoon III, and if that's not high praise I don't know what is.

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3138 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.03.21 14:44

I like the challenge of managing a rail network and production of goods that goes with it. There are a ton of strategies and techniques that i have sen others develop that i can't wait to try!

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6235 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.03.21 14:54

Old school game that is just challenging enough.

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Verfasst: 25.03.21 19:24

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Cartoonish character designs don't completely mesh with the rest of the game's theme, but it's a minor distraction at best from the overwhelmingly strong delivering of the game's fundamentals.

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3860 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.03.21 13:56

This is a fun simulator with a lot to sink your teeth into. I particularly like ride along, viewing the old west.

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140 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.03.21 21:29

I'm able to run Kalypso Launcher...
Kalypso launcher is unable to run game
(And i was able to play it some time ago)

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102 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.02.21 07:27

You know what? I like trains, and this game is literally sid's trains mk2, and while it makes many obvious improvements to the original very old game, it does have some spectacular failures.

All I wanted to do, was have a 2 rail track that goes straight past all stops. Then, at a town for example, both rails connect to the town, so that any train that needs to stop there, easily can, and then get back on its main track without issue.

HOWEVER. The stupid dev's of this game decided that you cannot, ever, remotely, have a track cross another track. Y'know, like an intersection. It has rail signals to support it, but it doesn't let you physically place the tracks through another.

OpenTTD, a game even older than sid's train game, with graphics and an engine like a potato, lets you do this with 0 issues.

I will come back to update this with more stupid things as I find them, but right now, this has really pissed me off.

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2234 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.02.21 22:19

As someone who's never played Railroad Tycoon, I found Railway Empire immensely compelling.

It's not a perfect game. There are some frustrating aspects to the UI, the AI is largely train dead (on normal), the late game loses some steam, there is a bit of a learning curve that almost requires you seek outside information (if you play on realistic), and sometimes your trains make dumb decisions without your micromanagement.

That being said, creating supply chains via trains, setting up your tracks just right, and digging into the statistics of each route to make it more efficient is utterly compelling stuff (if you're into that sort of train play). If that appeals to you, this game is definitely worth your time despite the flaws. Overall, the game is pretty freight.

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Verfasst: 12.02.21 20:02

I really enjoy tycoon games. This one is fun to a point. My computer maybe older, however, the DLC's which came included in the purchase keep freezing and crashing the game. There is only one campaign and it is kind of fun. If you can buy the game at a low price and do not mind some of the little issues which come with micro. you will have a little fun.

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7970 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.01.21 13:08

Game is focused on delivering required goods between towns and from producers outside of cities to cities.
Few things may have been done better, e.g. sometimes for unknown reason you cannot put parallel tracks and you have to leave some space and you cannot have more than two parallel tracks right next to each other when it is a bridge or tunnel.
Delivering goods must be done directly to the city where it is needed (you may also use warehouses) but passengers and mail can switch trains in cities, it was not obvious for me at the beginning.
After you learn the mechanic of the game, most missions are too easy and it is not a challenge to finish them with president rank.
I like this type of games so I enjoyed it very much :)
It reminds me Anno a little bit.

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712 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.01.21 07:06

Railway Empire is a fun logistics strategy game. It's scratching roughly the same itch that Factorio does. It's odd that I like this game as much as I do, because I have negative interest in trains. I've always understood their importance in history, but I never really cared specifically for trains or railroad games in the past.

Again, the game is fun even if you're not interested in the topic. Additionally, the devs clearly put a lot of effort into making sure that the game has the QoL improvements and balance changes to make it more enjoyable. Especially with the DLC.

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Verfasst: 17.01.21 22:51

Railway Empire really is a must-have game for those gamers who like games of strategy, or those big kids who never really grew up and enjoy building model railways and playing with them. For the real trainiacs out there, you can even ride along on the trains as they travel from city to city. The game is extremely immersive and addictive and will provide you with hour upon hour of challenging entertainment. I can't recommend this game more highly!

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Verfasst: 12.01.21 19:16

Railway Empire is a fun game for those like myself who enjoy both strategy and business management scenarios. The bits of real history thrown in to it, such as a good deal of historical accuracy with regards to the locomotives and technologies present in the game, do their part to enhance the experience. I do recommend that anyone playing this new start out with the main campaign and at least try to do each chapter of it, as it will teach you some of the techniques and legitimate tricks necessary for succeeding in the game. However, regarding the campaign I have to warn you that it gets pretty intense and challenging as you go into the later chapters. Personally, now that I have finished the campaign I'm enjoying getting into Free Mode...I'm finding it slower paced in some ways but no less challenging so far as compared to the campaign. There are also scenarios a person can play, and sandbox (no money, no pressure) mode. Though however you play it I'm sure that if you like trains and the things I've listed so far, you will enjoy this game. The only minus I can mention at this time is that the characters that manage the businesses in game are depicted in a very cartoon-like way which just isn't my thing, but it's easy to ignore and the real meat of the game will go above and beyond helping you look past such a minor stylistic detail.

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Verfasst: 11.01.21 00:54

This game is so fantastic, I love it's art style, the gameplay and the creators behind the game. Do recommend

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Verfasst: 10.01.21 15:37

Enjoyed the game! well worth the money spent. Does get repetitive after a while but that is expected.

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8410 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.01.21 10:57

If you were a fan of Railroad Tycoon, then this is the next logical step for you. A wider variety of trains, and dynamic technology development, and above all else better track routing mean this is the classic railway game brought up to a modern standard.

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Verfasst: 06.01.21 04:55

i loved railroad tycoon. this game is even better. i have not had the game but about a week and i have played little else.great graphics and gameplay. i went on you tube for videos to help learn how to do things. Adekyn is the person i liked the most. he was clear and concise. if you like train sims with alot of thinking this is TOPS. i give it a 9/10 .

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843 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.12.20 01:43

It's a model railroad creation sandbox!
With a resource trading and management game attached to it!

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2143 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.12.20 11:55

Love this game. Played 11 hours nearly non-stop yesterday. Think I'll be glued to the game again to day ;)

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513 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.12.20 23:24

I wanted to like this so badly. Love Railroad Tycoon 2 and 3. For me it felt a little too disconnected from history/geography. The map doesn't have Philadelphia? Industries are randomly and evenly spread with regards to regional differences? I kept trying to like it but i just didn't scratch that itch for me.

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Verfasst: 22.11.20 17:49

I bought the complete edition with all expansions when it went on sale recently. Well worth the 40 bucks. Hours can go by playing this game without noticing. If you're a fan of making (simplified) economies tick, then this is right up your alley. Im writing this with over a 100 hours into the game, and I have just finished the base campaign and one DLC.

Though I will say, FUCK the President rating - trying to get a perfect score on some scenarios is near impossible without relying on completely random AI choices. Worth the challenge for sure.

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3685 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.11.20 02:10

So far the game is very engaging and fun. I would highly recommend that you improve the business side by allowing players to purchase their own stock as a way to fend off hostile takeovers. Nothing sucks more than spending hours playing and building up a company only to have a computer player take you over and thus end the game. At least give players a way to defend themselves. Thank you.

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893 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.11.20 22:53

This game is a cheap knock off of the Sid Meier's classic. While it does some things right it is utterly flawed at the core of it's game play. The whole point is to build stations and railroads as you build your empire and the most frustrating portion of the game is track planning. Planning does not work the way you expect, the AI often makes absurd track position choices and you have to fight against it to make it do what you want to do. It is next to impossible (sometimes it is impossible) to create track crossovers, and even when you do get ti to work, the trains won't use them. For some reason they will only use one of several tracks available in a station and stop other trains from entering even though other tracks are open and the path there is clear. There are other things that annoy me about the game, but to get the core game play so wrong is abhorrent. I regret this purchase and the time I spent playing it. Kalypso usually does a pretty good job, but this title is a black eye for the company.

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2431 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.10.20 07:43

Good solid game, if you like railway tycoon type games give this a jam.

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Verfasst: 17.10.20 20:00

Not sure how to feel about this game. It could be great, but the AI does not handle crossover tracks well at all. I always see two trains trying to use the same single piece of track when there is a crossover tack and an empty track at the station right by them. The trains just don't want to use the empty track and they just love to wait for no reason. I've tried various formats of directional and stop signals, and nothing makes it work right. It makes the game very frustrating to play. Sid Meier's Railroads is way older than this game and does not have this crossover/empty track problem that this game has. I really wish it would get fixed.

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859 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.10.20 08:42

Awesome game with really great feeling of trains

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Verfasst: 10.10.20 18:54

Overall this is a good and satisfying game. The one pretty significant slight I have against it is that the track management tools are very, very limited, which forces you to make some very silly railway design decisions. The track management should have either been beefed up so that you could do it well, or ignored so that you don't have to do so many silly things. Also, the trains often don't make simple, logical decisions. For example, if there are two trains heading to a station that has two available rails, they will likely both try to use the same rail, resulting in one waiting for the other. What should have happened is that the second train should have simply gone into the empty rail. There may be ways to work around this, but they aren't very sensible.

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Verfasst: 07.10.20 13:11

I feel pretty bad about leaving this negative review. I have had a reasonably good time overall with this game. Recently, however, I have played some other management type games such as Tropico 5 and Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, and they feel much more fun than Railway Empire. I did some reflecting on why that is, and why those games feel like much less of a chore than this one.

In Railway Empire, you are given a map of unconnected cities and production locations such as farms, mines, or fisheries. With limited budget, you lay track and build stations, and then you buy trains and plan routes, and then watch the cash roll in. Each city will have certain goods that it demands; providing a steady supply of goods will cause the city to grow. As the cities grow, they will begin to demand greater varieties of goods and in much larger quantities. As the cities grow, they will begin to produce unique industrial goods (Paper out of wood, meat and leather out of cows, etc). If you become rich enough, you can buy up the farms and the industries to boost your profits. The game will usually pit you against AI opponents who are never much of a threat but who will annoy and harass you until you are able to buy them out. The cartoony personalities kind of break the feel of the game, so this was a bit of a misstep.

Winning usually involves hitting certain milestones, like having $X number of profits, or 75K people in at least 5 cities, or delivering 50 carloads of winter coats to a specific city.

The game does have a lot of nice touches. The different scenarios are all historically based. A TON of effort was put into modeling dozens of period appropriate engines. I really like the music in the DLCs as well. You can even ride along with your trains – a lot of effort clearly went into this feature, but it is useless from a gameplay perspective.

Laying track is a bit of a pain in the butt, and I don’t like how I cannot build stations in more than one city at once. After struggling with the switches and the crossovers I said screw it and began playing on a simple track mode, where trains can pass through each other. Also, the constantly running clock was annoying when trying to read and plan, so I enabled pause mode. There’s lots of other minor frustrations, like trying to get the game to recognize an express line.

The game works best at a small scale. Later missions, and DLC missions, become HUGE. You end up juggling 30+ cities and dozens of rural stations. Laying all the track and setting up all the supply towers becomes super tedious, and then winning becomes a matter of spamming trains and routes and then just waiting. The worst part of the game is that trains can only carry a few things at once, you can never upgrade this, so to feed late cities it seems you need 3 dozen trains just running back and forth between the city and the farm.

Like I mentioned before, the game is not a bad one! It just kind of has a way of overstaying its welcome and becoming a bit of a chore in the end. I will likely continue to dip in and out as I try to complete it over a long period of time, but I am not sure how much fun I will be having.

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89799 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.10.20 18:35

On average, to Oct 2020 I played equivalent of 8 hours a day for 6 whole moths. Yes, I would say it is a brilliant, sometimes challenging and most enjoyable game

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2437 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.09.20 22:21

Good game!

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Verfasst: 22.09.20 03:04

Overview
The classic Railroad Tycoon series is one that stands out among my early gaming memories. I remember watching my dad and uncle managing their companies long before I understood what was even happening, though I got a kick out of watching the ever-expanding railroads and the trains that traveled back and forth on them. It wasn’t too much longer that I began building some of my own before I had any right to be. The sequel, Railroad Tycoon 2, released when I was a few years older and it was at that point that I remember actually being able to put together and maintain an efficient system of rails. I even gave it another go in the last half of a decade or so as none of the other titles of the same theme seemed to be able to outdo it.

Enter Railway Empire. Within my first hour of playing it became clear that I’d stumbled across the holy grail of train management. All of the memorable elements of Railroad Tycoon were present and it wasn’t just a simple clone either, it modernized and innovated on new aspects that resulted in an even more in-depth experience.

The More Things Change…
Railway Empire carries on the tradition of Railroad Tycoon. You take on the role of the head of a budding railroad company and must find a way to turn a profit as you expand and maintain the tracks, stations, trains, and industry that you’ve acquired. Profits are made when the goods produced by industries are delivered from one of your stations to a city that demands them. This demand is determined by the size of the population and the industries present there. Each population threshold adds a new product that is demanded and each industry adds a demand for the good(s) that is consumed to manufacture its own. You’ll spend quite a bit of the early game shipping assorted agricultural products to be processed into meat and beer to support the growth of early cities.

Meeting the Growing Demand
As demand rises, you’ll have to continue to adapt to ensure that you can provide the necessary supply. Large populations require a higher quantity of their demanded resources, often requiring additional logistical measures like direct rail lines and personal warehouses to meet them. Successful industries will upgrade if they’re getting enough business which increases the number of goods they produce, though it also produces the amount they consume if they do so. A furniture factory operating at full efficiency will need a lot of lumber that is produced by sawmills which in turn need to have a steady supply of raw wood. There’s plenty of room for serious profits if you can keep up with the demands of your growing supply chain, especially if you purchase the industries that are producing the goods themselves.

To pull all of this off, you’ll need trains, lots of them. There come in a wide variety with some being specialized toward express routes while others are intended for freight delivery. Express-oriented trains tend to have a higher top speed though they often have significantly less tractive power making them slow down far more than freight-oriented engines when carrying heavy loads or dealing with elevation changes. Purchasing the right trains for the task at hand is huge, though you don’t need to micromanage what they transport unless you have a very specific goal in mind, such as an express route for only passengers and mail or a line that is specifically for delivering large quantities of apples for cider. The default setting has them pick up whatever is in supply at their current station as long as it is demanded at another station on their route. As your progress through the years, you’ll acquire increasingly fast and powerful engines that will continue to make your lines more efficient as you retire your older models.

Laying track is more complex than most other railroad sims and lines up far more closely with some of the deeper logistical sims that exist out there. Though you’re free to build as you please as long as you have the funds for it, you’ll have to factor in elevation changes, bridges, tunnels, and trains sharing the same tracks. Steep inclines can seriously hinder the speed of your locomotives, especially those with low tractive power, though tunnels are exponentially more expensive than standard tracks so you’ll have to use them sparingly until you’ve started making a stead profit. Even more importantly, trains cannot phase through each other and you’ll be closely monitoring side tracks, parallel tracks, and signals, which may come as something of a shock to those who are expecting a more casual experience.

All around the World
The base game of Railway empire focuses on the railroad development of the United States with its campaign and accompanying scenarios. I had plenty of fun with it and when I got my hand on the DLC I was pleasantly surprised by what it offered. At first I was disappointed that there weren’t any new campaigns, though the scenarios ended up not only being designed well, they’re clearly designed with a challenge in mind for those who’ve had experience with the game beforehand. I found the objectives of the original on the easy side, though each of the DLCs offered significantly more of a challenge than anything I’d come across before them. It wasn’t rare that I’d be completing a goal within six months of its deadline as opposed to always having a year plus to spare. It was a noticeable change and one that made me a much better railroad president because I had to be to achieve success.

Outside of the difficulty spike, each DLC comes with a new map and plenty of new goods to add some unique flavor to each of the new regions. It was oddly satisfying to ship cider around Great Britain and sausages around Germany and it really brought a nice touch as it required a tweaking of strategy to suit the rearranged economy. The overall mechanics of Railway Empire were left untouched, though the alternative scenarios and maps will keep fans of Railway Empire coming back for more.

Verdict
Railway Empire is the railroad company simulator that you’re looking for. I don’t know if you’re an old veteran of the genre or someone who’s curious about stepping into it for the first time, but I highly recommend this one as the one that you break out. The gameplay is solid and I found that I was still ready for another game no matter how many I’d had under my belt. The variety of options available allows even new players to adjust the difficulty and makes it possible for anyone to find success while staying challenging for those looking for something more difficult. While the DLC doesn’t add much as far as revolutionizing the gameplay mechanics, it does add a lot of content that will keep even the most addicted player occupied for quite some time. If you’ve even got the slightest interest in this title, I recommend picking it up.

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6773 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.09.20 00:51

Great game! Has kept me engaged for many hours. It can definitely be challenging in some of the scenarios.
Many of the negative reviews appear to be people who failed to learn how to use Signals

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Verfasst: 08.09.20 17:21

After battling the UI to get past even the very first step on the tutorial, I am then suddenly stuck with a train waiting for clearance and... I have no idea. 30 year old games that did not even have tutorials somehow worked better.

I'm strapping this game onto the tracks hoping a train runs it over, if it ever gets clearance that is.

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693 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.09.20 01:05

I love tycoon games and city builders in general. I have watched so many Let's Plays on this game, no wonder they never go more than the first couple of campaigns on the sponsored videos. This has been on my wishlist for a while now, a friend recently gave me a Steam card for my birthday, so I grabbed this game with all of the DLC. I feel absolutely cheated.

This game's mechanics are really unrefined for being full release with DLC. Track laying and switching is really unintuitive and overly complicated. The interface overall is clunky, train management is tedious and time consuming. You have to select a line then manage each train individually on that line, there is no interface to assign engineers or other train staff at-a-glance. In order to alter a trains cargo or route, you have to delete the route and train and then start again, which is fun when you have 6 or more trains doing different things on the same line.

For a full release game, it crashed to desktop whenever Steam had an update. I've had Supply Towers just disappear on reload, trains delete themselves and many other little bugs. You can't build bridges more than 3 tracks wide. Switching, the switching is the by far, the most frustrating part of the game. You have to build complicated intersections to get trains to behave and tracks must be assigned a direction, even with stations that have switching enabled. That feels so counter intuitive, why even allow multi-directional switching when the trains are just going to have conflicts if the track isn't assigned a direction. I spent over an hour alone trying to get a diamond switch to work, and I'm no stranger to these kinds of games.... 75% of my library is tycoon or city building games, with thousands of hours playing.

There are hours and hours of video on Youtube with people trying to explain how the rails and switching work, IN A TRAIN TYCOON GAME! Think about that for a second. This is not to mention the other hundreds of hours of videos explaining other basic mechanics of the game.

I tried to get a refund, but because I played too long and tried to give this game a chance, I'm out my gift card, happy birthday to me, I guess.

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Verfasst: 03.09.20 15:04

I liked the idea of making a logistics empire. But the micromanagement of tracks is too much

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265 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.09.20 01:17

I love builders and management sims, but this game is very hollow and repetitive. I played for a few hours and I think I experienced everything the game offers in the first 10 minutes. There is a task list instead of goals, with seems silly to me. I don't want to be assigned tasks with due dates. This game is not worth the price and I wish I could get a refund.

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Verfasst: 24.08.20 06:36

I like train sims a lot, but recently got to a point where the game feels like an iron ball shackled to one's hands. The game is very addictive at the beginning, and allows beginners easy entry, but as tasks get more and more complicated, the fun starts to fade away. It was fun up until a point.

- Some tasks seem quite unrealistic, and they ruin dlc scenarios (of which I have bought all) because the game ends if you fail one task. So after about 3 tries you don't bother replaying because the game isn't about having fun but more about (re-loading an old save) and being an IT specialist trying to troubleshoot an algorithm just to move onto the next set of even more complex codes...
I played the German DLC, a total of 8 times, and have still not been able to win. Making money isn't the problem, its micromanaging through menus to duplicate tracks, trains, and endless problem solving to work around the game's limitations....

- The UI slows down gameplay; and it isn't very sophisticated. Even if you're pretty good at putting down routes, sorting through menu after menu makes the game feel like a desk-job in micro-management.

- Pop-ups are annoying as hell, and the music isn't memorable either. I ended up playing Railroad Tycoon's music in the background, for nostalgia....

- The voice acting is particularly cringe-worthy and grating especially if you've just lost a scenario, and the cartoon characters have always felt agonisingly painful from the start.

- There's no multiplayer? I'd expect that from a game like this...

This game is pretty much Railroad Tycoon but with prettier graphics, but less fun. It leaves a lot to be desired... After being out on the market for so long it still feels unpolished. That being said I'll probably play it for another 20 more hours before I put it in the grave.

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1054 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.08.20 11:43

Railway Empire is a decent train sim game, with stunning graphics and acceptable gameplay. However, there are design flaws relating to track management, track laying, and the trains' AI pathfinding which can be annoying and inconvenient at times. I found the main campaign enjoyable, but these issues discouraged me from playing more.

Gameplay: 4/7
Story: 5/7
Graphics: 7/7
Music/sounds: 4/7
Multiplayer: N/A
Replayability: 4/7

Overall: 5/7
Fair price (USD): $17.5

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Difficulty (to learn): 4/7
Difficulty (to master): 5/7
Length: 12-18h (5-chapter main campaign)
Bugs: some

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4393 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.08.20 03:46

I have played for long enough to accurately say that I am frustrated by the weak AI controls that run the trains. I set up a beautiful track set up and the trains still will not take the specified routes after awhile. I think someone has not refined it to the level needed to enjoy playing to game to the depth it should.

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Verfasst: 04.08.20 08:14

One of the best train games out there... once you get the hang of the somewhat awkward pathing system.

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Verfasst: 01.08.20 11:07

This game is fun!! But the problem is, they give you objectives to meet. Unlike games like Tropico, if you don't meet the objectives they send you right back to the beginning. Like right back to the tutorial. I played for 4 hours and was having so much fun, but because I missed ONE objective out of like eight, I was sent back to the beginning. Fuck you!! Objectives should be an option!

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Verfasst: 01.08.20 03:08

Railway Empire is a train management simulation game developed by Gaming Minds Studios and published by Kalypso Media. It was released in January 2018. Railway Empire features a five-chapter story-based campaign, twelve scenarios, and a challenge mode. This review will cover the campaign and scenarios. It will not review the DLCs because I have yet to purchase them.

Overview / Gameplay Mechanics

Railway Empire features a dynamic management component. It is set between the 1800s and early-1900s and to succeed, you must build your company by building a sustainable transport network that is connected to cities. In-turn, the quicker that you grow your connected city the more opportunity you must invest into city industries and businesses to expand your revenue. Your network and cities are supported by transporting goods from rural businesses to cities, according to a city’s demands.

Additionally, there are various train locomotives to use which range from freight-focused, mail and passenger-focused or mixed focus. Trains, as well as a variety of other upgrades, such as improving the safety of your trains to gain more revenue per train trip, are researched as you gain Innovation Points. Railway Empire also features a business component, where you can invest in stocks, buy shares of your competitors, and bid on industries and businesses.

This game is tycoon-like and the complexity of inter-connected systems makes it an extremely enjoyable and fun game. It is easy to learn but difficult to master, and I found that even the objectives provided a great challenge, rarely feeling that the objectives were frustrating. While at times it was frustrating to restart a scenario, I had a great time playing it when I coupled my play with a television show on my other monitor.

Within Railway Empire, there are various goods to supply, things to research, businesses to invest, but ultimately, the decade-based focus of the game provided a good amount of variety in each playthrough. For example, the look of cities changed as the years progressed, as did the industries and locomotives. This was an excellent choice by the developers because it resulted in a different experience on each playthrough, which by virtue, added replayability. I also found the geography and visualisation of the United States to be eye-catching and engaging.

Campaign / Scenarios Mode

Railway Empire features a solid campaign which is enjoyable and logical, but simple. The story is supported by cutscenes and voice-acting, which I think added to the broader experience of the story. The campaign focuses on the initial establishment of the rail system in the United States to the expansion of it across the nation state. I reflect that the campaign was not very challenging, and as such, do not expect a strong storytelling effort. That said, I am new to rail tycoons. As a result, I think this game, while simple, provided a strong introduction into the mechanics of this type of game, and it is this accessibility that makes it also welcoming for beginning players.

Railway Empire also features Scenarios. Scenarios are a collection of missions across the United States which incorporates different narratives and objectives and is supported by voice dialogue. Scenarios are notably different from the campaign in which there is no consistency between missions nor is there cutscenes. I think that the scenarios were a joy to play and is a logical continuation to the campaign because you are still getting some sort of purpose for each mission. Noting this, the scenarios are significantly more challenging than the campaign, which as mentioned earlier, provides a sense of fulfilment on completion rather than being a frustrating experience.

Negatives

Throughout my 115-hour playthrough of Railway Empire, I did not encounter any game-breaking glitches, but I did experience crashes very rarely. More importantly however, I identified a variety of issues on the two mission ‘South & South-East’ section of the Scenarios mode. I found that the narrator’s speech was inaudible, which was disappointing. Likewise, I noticed that there were a variety of grammatical issues in the text of these missions. Across 10+ patches, I am surprised that both issues were not identified and fixed.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Railway Empire is a pretty good rail management simulation game. It features a solid campaign that provides accessibility to beginners and a very challenging, yet rewarding and engaging Scenarios mode. It also features a strong dynamic of gameplay systems across different decades, providing variety in each playthrough. Noting these positives, I found the ‘South & South-East’ section of the Scenarios mode to be marred by audio and text issues. For AUD$69.95, I recommend this game on sale because it was slightly too expensive. That being said, I think those that do purchase it, regardless of the price, will enjoy it.

Rating

7.75/10

Pros

• Gameplay mechanics are vast, diverse, and engaging
• Scenarios provide great replayability and challenge to the seasoned player
• Campaign is solid, supported by well-done voice-acting and interesting cutscenes
• Appealing visuals on the cities, objectives, and landscape of the United States

Cons

• Inaudible audio and various text issues in some missions in the Scenarios mode

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852 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.07.20 22:04

I wanted to like this game. I really did. The Manual does not tell you much, nor does the in game instruction via the experts who are to guide you through the campaign. I quit the game over track placement and signaling. I learned the hard way you can't work with multiple tracks intersecting multiple tracks very well. Example: A pair of tracks going between two towns, with one track going each direction. If you try to add a spur accessible from each line with a pair of tracks so you can have one track for each direction still, you find you can't.

I found you can't make a bridge with more than 2 tracks. To have 4 tracks over a river you need to make 2 dual track bridges. When you have a switching yard on either end of your station sometimes it works sometimes it does not. I quit over not being able to have trains leave from one end of a station with a switching yard. The game was no help.

The track laying was more difficult than it needed to be. Instead of being able to free form where you wanted the track to go it would hold onto a curve and you had to keep making clicks for where the curve would end, and then continue on with another section.

I found the game's idiosyncrasies to be maddening.

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620 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.07.20 06:51

I initially had a hard time creating a proper train system but after watching AI I realized the only proper way was a two track one-way design as anything else would pretty much cause trains to stop moving.

As a huge fan of Transport Tycoon I had high hopes and maybe for some some the highly focus on industry and trains would be enough but within the hours I played after understanding the route design it became tedious and I lost any real desire to continue.

This might be ok for some people but feels like a 90s game without the enhancements we deserve.

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2255 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.06.20 11:11

DLC-Concept abuse. All regions that are not north america are considered a dlc and you need to pay. So there are very few maps, you can actually play on.

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12770 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.06.20 01:27

As a die-hard fan of the original Railroad Tycoon games (namely 2 and 3), I was definitely drawn in by this game seemingly being a throwback to classic early 2000s strategy games in a modern coat of paint. While the stock market aspect isn't as big as it was in Railroad Tycoon, Railway Empire makes up for this lacking aspect with its massive research tree and industry chains akin to Railroad Tycoon 3. The inclusion of multiple characters with different pros and cons both add on a large amount of replayability and remind me of pre-alpha Train Fever's original plan to include characters with various perks. There are also plenty of scenarios to sink your teeth into in both the default game and the DLCs, as well as tons of locomotives to use. All in all, a great throwback to my childhood, and a must-have for anyone who grew up with a PC and railroad games.

+ Great graphics that mix modern with early-mid 2000s PC style.
+ Replayability for scenarios, free play and challenges, thanks to multiple characters.
+ Lots and lots of trains going down the bend and around the track- wait wut
+ Trains look good and sound even better.
+ Around $50 worth of DLC content with NO MICROTRANSACTIONS.
+ Can be played easily in Windowed mode while you do other things.
+ Steam workshop support for extra maps.
+ Map editor.
+ LISTEN TO THEM WHISTLES BOI MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-
- Campaign is short. Can be finished in a few hours.
- Manual pausing takes away from your level score (...really, guys?).
- Stock market isn't very deep. You can buy and sell and merge.
- Only steam locomotives and only one diesel, no electrics. Diesel and electric fans best keep looking.
- DLCs only provide a limited selection of extra locomotives. France provides the most with 10, but most only have 2-3 with the rest of the tech tree still using American engines.
- Limited to 1830 - 1930. No Big Boy nor Kriegslok here.
- Currently no Asia/Russia DLCs.
- William Clark in the South America DLC is a f*cking @sshole. STOP STEALING MA MONEY!
- Running with uncapped frames can risk overheating your computer.
- Better have a deep wallet if you want all those DLCs.
- Tracks can't get super-complex like they can in Transport Fever 2.

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2571 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.06.20 16:57

I Choo-Choo Choose this game.

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58023 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.06.20 04:54

Highly recommend this game. If you like strategic play, many different scenarios, bug free, rich DLC content this is the game for you. REALLY enjoy it.

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1158 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.05.20 15:15

IS IT WORTH IT? Let's find out! (Big thank you to Kalypso Media for providing the keys that made this review possible! Enjoy! <3 https://youtu.be/PGPMWH8N8Ac

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6471 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.05.20 02:20

A Great Itch to scratch for this style of gameplay, setting up Rail lines across the US and other countries in the Expansions.

Pros:
Very In depth Business simulator as well. Purchase supply depots, businesses and industries that all use your materials to increase your bottom line.

In Depth Rail Pathing. You need to setup travel routes, set Directional signals, and program signal blocks. Truly build your system the way you want to. While daunting, and a little difficult to make it all work, in the end I love drawing new rail lines and connecting the cities together

The game does allow you to ride along with your engine, which is rather cathartic to just let the game run and travel along your virtual routes.

Cons:
Not a great tutorial. If you play the campaign, it doesn't really ease you into all the finesse work the game has under the hood. I've played through 4 missions, and none of them talked about using Warehouses, or Using Station with Switching controls, both of which are buildings you'll want to use, to save a lot of time. I recommend looking for a Youtube video or 2 to help with the finer aspects, if you feel like you can build lines efficiently, but don't seem to be thriving at the game.

The Railroad Personnel is a nice feature, but since conflicts can arise that stops your trains, It becomes quite aggravating when your busiest stations grind to a halt because 2 of your employees are having an argument. Eventually I just stopped hiring crews, unless I was trying to set a speed world record.

The competitors. While it's an entire business sim, and the goal is to make large amounts of money, that means you're often in competition. Problem is, they become quite annoying when they comment on every little bad thing that happens to you, especially if they caused it.

This is a personal complaint, but i wish there was a mode to actually drive the engine, and follow your signals and manage the speed. I originally bought this game thinking you could, but that was an error on my part.

Overall:

I initially bought this game thinking this would be a game to simulate routes and drive an engine over them. While that's not the core gameplay loop at all, I did find myself having fun drawing railway networks, connecting cities, and transporting goods and passengers all across the country. While playing the campaigns and finding the competitors irksome, and being confused why I could never seem to boom my empire as much, I started watching some youtube Videos to help.

I learned about the Stations with Switching controls, which makes it easier to do what I tried to do manually with points, and Warehouses, where my smaller engines could deliver singular rural goods to this station, then faster stronger freight lines could deliver these goods to the cities, freeing up the number of smaller rural deliveries. While there is alot more to learn about the businesses of running rails, and the fact the gameplay doesn't quite teach this very well, I've been enjoying the game a great deal now that I know alot more about how it's working.

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5949 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.05.20 14:42

Good game with no issues so far. Worth watching a few online videos to help you with strategy but very good fun.

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3770 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.05.20 00:08

This game could be excellent but there are some seriously bad functionality controls which still haven't been dealt with despite, I believe, the developer having been asked repeatedly to look into. The single biggest problem is the complete lack of any functional control of the TRANSPORT LINES. As the game progresses you will want to set up a train line between stations A, B, C, D, and E for example, then appoint numerous trains to that line. One would think you could easily go and find that LINE again at a later time and add some more trains or edit the stations involved on that line. But NO - nothing exists to do that. It becomes a nightmare to manage after a while when you have numerous different lines. Guys, you have to get this sorted out - it completely ruins an otherwise great game.

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1076 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.04.20 23:05

If you ever played Railroad Tycoon 3, and enjoyed that, then you will probably also enjoy Railway Empire. In Railway Empire, you have to manage a flow of goods between rural areas and cities based on demand/supply by building rail roads and buying and setting up trains to bring those goods. However, this game also adds many elements from games like Offworld Trading Company like a stock market, the ability to buy-out your competition, sabotage, etc. to make it really interesting to play against your competition. Unfortunately, here is where the game falls short: it has all the ingredients to offer a marvelous co-op and multiplayer experience, yet the developers decided to focus purely on a single player experience.

If you are fine with a single player campaign, and if you are looking for an experience similar to Railroad Tycoon 3, then I would definitely recommend this game. What could have turned this from an OK game into an excellent game would be the ability to play this game with and against your friends.

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2293 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.04.20 11:29

Nice game. Has a little bit cartoonish-casual-mobile game design and visual style. Has some strategic depth, but not too hard to fully grasp.

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Verfasst: 12.04.20 08:19

The first computer game ever loved was Railroad Tycoon. I just don't know what is about these empire games run through a train format. Between each successive version there would be periods of my life without a train game, and something was missing but I never knew what. The years before Railway Empire was released were the darkest, for I feared that perhaps that there simply weren't enough similarly minded fans left to justify making such a game.

I'm playing this game slowly so that I can savor it.

I've purchased all the additional scenarios and promise to buy any additional releases for this game.

My only comments about this current version is that I don't enjoy having to play one of the stock characters with certain abilities in each game. This reminds be of choosing a character at the beginning of Oregon Trail. Just let me be me. In other older games like this you got to play yourself and were able to buy shares of your own company.

The second suggestion I have - and it's SO MINOR and I may be wrong about this, but in the opening animation for the game (is there an option to skip this, by the way?), I think the windmill is spinning BACKWARDS. Not the kind of review you're looking for, I'm sure, but we have a windmill on our land and I've never taken my laptop out to compare the two, but something about the animated windmill looks off.

otherwise it's a PERFECT GAME and it's just what a soul needs.

Many thanks to everyone who worked to put this game together!

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Verfasst: 02.04.20 18:33

Absolutely one of the best Railroad sims out there. Just hands down. Easy to play, challenging to master designing good tracks. Love love love this game.

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Verfasst: 27.03.20 15:25

Time flies, if you are looking to kill an absurd amount of time without realizing it. This is a good candidate.

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Verfasst: 23.03.20 19:15

that's the game to play when u have to self isolate at home all day long.

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318 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.03.20 17:21

I grew up playing games like Railroad Tycoon series so I was expecting something similar when I bought Railway Empire.

What a mistake!

This game feels like it was done by two teams. Team 1 was responsible for visual and laying tracks aspect of the game and in my opinion they've done it great, 10 out of 10. The map is gorgeous, laying tracks simply brilliant. I wouldn't change a thing.

Unfortunately Team 2 was tasked to do everything else and they just screwed everything.
Locomotives can pull 8 cars no matter if its a loc from early 19th century or more modern from the 20th century. The only difference is the speed. It doesnt even matter if your cargo is iron ore or passengers or feathers - every train can pull 8 of it. What a load of rubbish!!!
I mean really? I had to check if I bought the right game. Maybe I ordered something else by mistake? I checked its says Railway Empire and a big locomotive on the front cover.
It's like saying that every aircraft can carry 300+ passengers across the Atlantic no matter if its a first plane made by the Wright brothers or the Boeing 787 and the only difference is the speed. (facepalm)
Just a question to DEVS : Out of everything you could have done wrong you manage to do the trains/locomotives part horribly wrong?

The player chooses from cartoonish characters who is going to run the company i.e. Scientist, General, Mobster etc. It not only kills the emersion for me but I think they should be in charge of a lab, army and organized crime not a railway company for christ sake!

I only managed to play this crap for 5 hours and will not be playing again, waste of money unless this going to be changed which by the amount of paid DLC I highly doubt it.
For those of you that enjoy the game ... well keep enjoying, my opnion shouldn't matter , but for those who are thinking whether or not to buy it - don't do it! don't be deceived by the stunning graphics.

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2238 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.02.20 04:14

Bought it a year ago and couldn't get into it. Just came back and gave it another try and now I'm hooked! Do the campaigns to learn the basics so you don't get frustrated and post bad reviews. I thought I could get away with not using signals but they are very important, a little confusing at first but worth the time to learn how to use them. Now I love them, it's fun! Still trying to figure out the stock market and hostile takeover of rival AI companies which seems a little off. If you own 51% of a company's stock you are supposed to be able to do a take over but seems different here. But still a great game!

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2266 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.01.20 03:41

This game is excellent. Although I have not yet played with any of the DLCs, the base game is highly addictive and can be played for hours. Highly recommended for lovers of trains and those who get enjoyment out of games that let you control over a business and expand.

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Verfasst: 21.01.20 12:04

Best transport tycoon for me in a looong time and I played all of them. And I remember times at which I played the old Transport Tycoon. Yeah, I am getting old :)

For me, this game is a perfrect mix between being too simple/easy and too hard/complicated. Also, it has a strange magic for me, which I cannot really explain.. The music, setting, art.. everything just comes together greatly. I bought all the DLCs as soon as they came out, even though they are a bit overpriced, for what they offer, IMHO.

There is nothing more relaxing for me than coming home after a night shift, sit at my PC, make a coffee and play this game.. Too bad I completed campaign and all scenarios on hardest diff long time ago and there is no more content for me now :( I would love if devs would make another, longer, campaign. I really hope there will be proper sequel in the future.. This game is a jewel for me.

The new challenge thing , where you have new scenario each month and you compete in a leaderbord, is a great addition too.

To sum it up, I would recommend this game to every transport tycoon fan. The only bad thing about this game is that there is no more content when you finish it all :D (yeah, you can play randomized map, but somehow AI is too easy on these maps, even on hardest diff, so it is a bit boring)

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2839 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.01.20 09:18

For me, this feels like the real successor to Railroad Tycoon and Sid Miers' Railroads, and strikes a better balance between the two (Tycoon trying to be more realistic, and Railroads having more of an arcade feel). The routing of trains is realistic but not so difficult that you spend the whole game managing traffic. The locomotive choices are focused on an earlier time-frame which is a serious win from my perspective... The myriad of different 4-4-0s in the game show just how much attention to detail went into this and gives it a definite AMERICAN flair. Maps are beautiful, and have my home-town of Augusta GA on it!

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5049 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.01.20 04:29

You're going to need a bit of patience with this one until you get the hang of the game mechanics, but once you do, you're going to have a blast. It feels like you're playing with model trains, except there's a ton of problem-solving and balancing that you have to complete at the same time. I would recommend reading some of the overview guides on Steam to help get you started; I found them really helpful to give me guidance on how to use warehouses and what some of the building limitations are.

There are plenty of campaigns, scenarios, sandbox play, and global challenges for you to try, plus the DLC often goes on sale for $3-4, which is a total steal. Definitely worth a try if you like managing your traffic in games like Cities: Skylines!

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