Empire Builder

I love this game. The developers have done a great job of capturing the fun of the board game while taking care of some of the more tedious tasks for you.

There was a recently released new edition of the board game. The art and the look and feel of this digital implementation match the physical game really well. I wish the tutorial was a little better in some areas. Moving the train isn't immediately intuitive, Nor is the auto-routing particularly good, If you want to go a specific route you need to draw it one line at a time with a pause in between. Which kind of slows route building down if you are fussy. The most important thing to me though is that there is no true solo play. How do you let that go at this point in time? There is a solo challenge, but that is just puzzle like. You are just trying to be most efficient with what you have. There is no competition. The potential is here if they could just fix up a few things. Preferably adding AI support for true competitive solo play.

Very cleaver use of the graphics when trouble cards are present. Beware of changing direction. It is not successful until you go to the nearest city OR build a 'triangle'.

Plays really well. I have the board game and this covers all the basics and adds some cool bells and whistles (no pun intended). Hoping the community expands as there is no AI and it has been hard to find players online.

Update: After working with the developers I was able to get into the game. The response time from the bug report I sent to Kressilac responding on this was very fast. The solo challenge plays like the board game does on a normal table top. I have changed my recommendation to positive on this. Original post: I would love to be trying the game out but cannot due to login failures. The game is supposed to authenticate with Steam to allow you to play, however, both automatic login on launch and manually logging in fail. Therefore I am unable to even try the game I just purchased. Until login failures are fixed I cannot recommend the game. That said if they get fixed I will create a new review to update information here.

Game allows a solo mode to learn the game mechanics and allow you to check the different possible run builds before jumping in to a multi-player.

I love the board games. My hope is I can introduce people who will love this as much as I do.

Great implementation of Empire Builder: Europe (aka. Eurorails, Crayon Rails). Developer is responsive and actively working on improvements. Great pickup for anyone looking to play Empire Builder digitally.

I've been a fan of the Empire Builder series for quite some time. It's nice to see a version available for online play.

Solid implementation of Empire Builder. Devs are active on discord and are listening to player feedback. Game is missing some quality of life features but devs have promised them on the backlog. Best way to get into a game is to join the discord and post in the "Looking for game" channel.