In short, it's excellent!

I came to this from Euro Truck Simulator 2, seeking a similar experience, but with a different mode of transportation. It was also my first foray into "train games" as a whole.

I wanted something like ETS2 in terms of progression, where I could go at my own pace, pick my jobs, and grow a company over time. It seemed like a lot of other popular train sims lean heavier into the "sim" aspect, which I don't mind, but that's just not what I was looking for.

This game blends those two things quite well in my opinion. The controls are just complicated enough to feel in-depth and interesting, but not so complicated that you need to watch a two hour YouTube guide to get the hang of. It helps that the in-game tutorial is very well designed!

As your save file progresses, new areas are unlocked and more difficult jobs become available. The rate of this progression feels good! I'm always worried about getting overwhelmed and confused early on in simulator-type games. Sometimes too much is thrown at you all at once, but this doesn't have that problem.

There are lots of locomotives and other things to play around with, and all of the ones I've tried so far feel varied in their strengths and weaknesses, which is good. It's never that fun or interesting when all the tools feel the same. As a diesel locomotive enthusiast, I am glad to say that the two that are available at the time of this review are very satisfying to use. Hoping for more options in the future!

The optimization is good as well, most of my PC hardware is pushing eight years old with a six year old GTX 1080, and this runs between 50 and 60 FPS comfortably on max settings. The sound design is minimal, but effective. The graphics are realistically styled, but not photo-realistic, which is fine.

All in all, this is a great project that I feel good about supporting. The logistics puzzle elements, cool train stuff, company management, and world progression aspects blend together very nicely. I would recommend this to anyone who thinks that blend sounds interesting!

This game is worth the money. If you, like me played Railroads online and then shifted to this game after all the bugs of RRO I don't blame you. This game has finally itched that scratch that many railroad sim games have failed to do. I.E actually feel like driving the train, delivering loads and dealing with a time schedule to a point. Instead of the go from point a to point b like a few of the other train sim games do. Over all the constant updates that the devs do to fix small bugs is 100% better then RRO with their bug fixes. Devs here actually listen to the community and take ideas from the community seriously. My rating of the game is 10/10

Amazing sim. even in early access. excited to see where this game goes in the future,