Rail Route: The Story of Jozic

This game is really fun for all railroad (tycoon) fans who like to micro manage their trains and build a network that in time gets more and more complicated from scratch. The free game is more like a demo that explains basic game play and tells the story of Jozic besides that (and the story telling part sometimes becomes a little bit annoying when you just want to PLAY instead of listening to him and his stories). The graphics cannot be compared with games like "Railway Empire" but show you enough information to just concentrate on connecting stations and planning/managing your time table and trains, although some things (like different track levels) might have been shown a little bit better. It runs in 'real time' but you can (and probably should) pause anytime to plan your next steps like laying new or upgrading existing tracks, optimising your time table or investing your hard earned points in new technologies (faster tracks, different kinds of trains, signals, etc.). Some things are not very well explained (like automated signals) and you just have to play around long enough to understand how they work, but if you take your time and try different things (you can always save your game before that!) you might and hopefully will have a lot of fun! After playing the game here I finally ended up buying the full version at a heavy discount on that 'other' drm free website... oh and for all penguins: there is also a native linux version available which is always appreciated!