Rail Route

火车迷上班模拟器👍 byd孩子真是不赖 在网上找了个班上👍

The idea is cool but the UI and tutorials are infuriatingly bad, to the point I asked for a refund before the 2h limit. The UI is full of confusing details, with too much information thrown at once, coupled with obscure icons. As a result I found myself constantly trying to separate what matters from what doesn't, trying to understand what was happening to the trains. Unfortunately the tutorial doesn't help, because - like many other people say - it does a horrible job to explain you how the game mechanics work. It's full of irrelevant storytelling mixed with unnecessarily pedantic instructions ("click here", "great job!"), leaving you to scratch your head on what and why something is happening on screen. I'm sure the game is richer than this, but I guess I'm too old to gloss over a bad onboarding experience - so it's a no for me. If you want to try it, just prepare for a steep learning curve and arm yourself with a lot of patience.

Rail Route seems like a promising game, but the tutorial is one of the most frustrating I've ever played. It's oddly slow where it doesn't matter (storytelling and pacing), yet incredibly impatient where it does matter; actually learning and understanding the mechanics. Every few seconds, the game bombards you with both an audio cue and a visual ping telling you to perform the next tutorial action. I could understand this if the player appeared to be stuck, but it starts after only a few seconds and repeats constantly. For example, about 10 minutes in, the tutorial introduces auto-signaling upgrades. It does a good job guiding you to the upgrade screen and showing you which upgrade to select. Once there, however, I wanted to read the upgrade description and understand what it actually did before installing it. Instead, the game repeatedly pinged and reminded me every few seconds to install it immediately, making it feel as though I wasn't allowed to stop and read. Later, when automatic routing is introduced, the tutorial has the opposite problem: it barely explains how the feature should actually be used. The same issue appears earlier when teaching contracts. The tutorial pre-selects the correct options for you, congratulates you for completing the task, and moves on as if you've learned something, even though you haven't really done anything yourself. The voice acting itself is good, and the narrator's delivery is solid. The problem isn't the presentation; it's how the tutorial is designed. It constantly rushes the player through actions while often failing to explain the reasoning behind them. The core game looks genuinely fun, and I can see the appeal of designing, upgrading, and automating a railway network. Unfortunately, the tutorial does the game no favors. At the moment, I'm genuinely split between pushing through it or refunding the game because the onboarding experience feels more frustrating than informative.

I can't recommend this game. While it looks fun and fancy, the tutorial is so confusing I have no clue what I'm supposed to do or where the actual fun is. - Several bugs on Linux - the game crashes when alt+tabing out, it also crashes on changing VSync. (this is on NixOS 26.05 w/ KDE Wayland) - The tutorial is extremely slow (even using the "time multiplier" buttons), does not do a good job explaining how to optimize, and you can end up softlocking yourself by messing up your contract timing. I still don't understand how to see current contracts, or what I'm even supposed to do - should I try to automate everything? Should I automated only part of the network, and keep some stuff running manually? This has a lot of potential, but the onboarding just doesn't work well enough.

Don't waste your money. This game is incomplete (it plays like a second-rate early access game). Automation DOES NOT WORK at scale. You will spend hours manually routing trains (certainly enough hours to prevent you from getting your well-deserved refund). You might eventually earn the automation upgrades to finally build your network at scale (the entire point of the game?!), but many of the sensors needed to automate do not function reliably (or stop working when you change an unrelated element). The tutorials are useless. The game mechanics aren't impossible to figure out (albeit not as intuitive as it could be), but after 70+ hours (many in 'sandbox mode') just trying to figure out why nothing is working as intended, I'm convinced the issue is the game itself. One thing I noticed in my search for videos or better tutorials: There is not a single video on YouTube that shows a completed layout or fully built automated rail network. NOT ONE. Tons of incomplete "playthrough" video series that gamers have started but did not complete (and no explanation as to why the quit the game). (I'll tell you why -- It's because no one can actually make the automation work properly). Great game concept. Poor execution (unless you enjoy the tedium of manually choreographing your entire rail network). This game should not be sold on Steam in its current state.

I really like the game. The idea is good and it's fun and relaxing. But I play it on Steam Deck - and it's a pain! Too many bugs and issues with UI, sometimes I had to kill the game. Also after connecting my steam deck to a 4K TV I configured scaling (otherwise the text was too small). On the next restart the scale was so bad, that I couldn't see a single button and I had to reinstall the game. I really wish developers to re-think the software part of the game(maybe from scratch) and make it gamepad-first to stay steamdeck-verified. I had to request a refund, but I would be happy to buy this game again in future if expirience on steamdeck is better.

The interface is not easy to understand. The examples sensors do not do what the tutorial teaches. For example, Departure Sensors DO NOT work as explained in the tutorial. Instead of enjoying the game, it's seems like the game fighting me with every sensor and switch that is being used. The tutorials seem like they were writing for a previous version of the game. That is another thing that adds to the frustration. I hope you make some improvements. Until then, I would give this game 2 stars out of 5.

游戏很好，全路自动化后很有成就感，需要诟病的是优化太差了，稍微大一点的图玩到后期就会无响应，非常难受