Railroad Corporation

Quite old-fashioned strategy game, which is surprisingly addictive due to interesting tutorial/campaign. Every mission is hard at the beginning but then satifying once you get enough income to expand. The AI competitors are extremely easy though.

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One of the best rail games I have played in a while.

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A very well rounded experience. The game has a lot of mechanics, all expanding a well done track builder to be a great game of economics. You can start auctions on factories or specific areas in cities to build factories or a selection of other buildings to enhance request on goods or provide other forms of advantages. Buidling tracks is well tought out. Too steep? Trains slow down depending on the amount of their freight. Too tight of a curve radius? Trains again have to slow down. The game has a good selection of locomotives, most of them do have a niche they excell at. Some are faster, some can haul more and different locomotives can accelerate differently quickly. Many properties can be enhanced by using the research facility, allowing players to enhance existing trains or research new ones. All research and construction costs money. Money which needs to be earned. For this the players transport goods from industries to other industries or towns and goods and passengers from town to town. Goods have to be purchased at industries you do not own and get sold at the destination. The prices fluctuate based on how much was delivered / purchased leading to routes having to balance amounts of cargo delivered against how much profit the player gets per sold unit. Passengers and mail work differently, instead being priced based on distance travelled. Additionally owned industries are able to sell their produce directly to adjacent towns. And whilst you pay for the running costs/maintenance of the industry, getting their products without having to purchase them does lower the overall price the longer you own the industry. Or at leat I feel like this happens. I did not calculate this. Neither did I count how often the game breaks in multiplayer. It doesn't happen as often as in the successor - Railroad Corporation 2 - but it does happen from time to time. A friend I was playing with seemingly had found an exploit that allowed his game to have tracks be built outside the tracks. Saving afterwards was a grave mistake, leading to the save no longer being able to get loaded - even though my game never displayed the tracks outside the map. On the host the game ran fine but on the joined players game the trains sometimes stopped without rhyme or reason, leading to frustrating situations where the whole network gets stuck because some train stands in front of open tracks. No signal nor obstruction visible. Neither to the player nor the host. Restarting the game fixed these occurances though. Whilst a hastle, it was worth it for us, playing almost all of my gametime in a single game - though not in one session. Rather than the successor Railroad Corporation 2 I'd rather buy this one. More stable with a few missing features - like electrification and later trains - but overall a better experience.

Very decent train management game, got sucked in for nearly 5 hours straight without realizing. But the game lags like crazy when you try to build a long segment of rail at once, and you can very easily... want to build long stretches of rail in a railroad tycoon game. But since the pathfinding & block system in the game is based on a per-segment basis, you're somewhat encouraged to build lots of small segments anyway. Games like this make me really appreciate how smooth track laying and signaling are in Factorio. Sure, you have to set up signals manually in Factorio, and you can easily shoot yourself in the foot with them.. But in this game, building even a simple roundabout is a challenge, and any more complicated intersection is a pipe dream. Nonetheless, the game still feels [b]good[/b] to play.

I’ve spent close to 17 hours with Railroad Corporation, spread across different sessions, and managed to complete three missions. My overall impression is that the game is both challenging and tense, which makes it rewarding but also stressful at times. The main difficulty lies in the financial balancing act: Railway tracks and upgrades are very expensive. Research costs feel steep, often forcing tough choices. Cash flow is tight, and most of the time I only manage to scrape through missions with a few hundred left in the bank. Because of this, it’s hard to see a clear profit margin growing, as upgrades and track prices constantly eat into earnings. Still, the tension of trying to pull it off at the last minute adds a unique thrill. Despite these challenges, the game is fantastic overall. The atmosphere, mechanics, and sense of accomplishment when you finally complete a mission are excellent. My only wish is that the developers would provide players with a little more starting cash or reduce some of the costs, so building railway lines feels more manageable without losing the strategic depth.

I cant recommend it. When building track sometimes the game likes to freeze in a very noticeable way. I would recommend railway empire instead.

I've been looking for a sim/management style game for a while that doesn't have a super steep learning curve. This one fits the bill decently. I've only played through a bit of the campaign mode. Its forgiving and walks you through the mechanics pretty well. If you're looking for a game that doesn't require you to manage 100 different things to keep your progress going, try this one out. A good way to kill sometime without exploding your brain. Enjoy!