Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail

Simple graphics, but great fun.

Napiszę coś po polsku. Dużym pozytywem jest to że gracz jest zmuszony uruchomić szare komórki, aż mu się zwoje prostują, a i tak nie zrozumie całej tej mechaniki i tego co właściwie chciał osiągnąć twórca, samouczek właściwie nie istnieje, a przynajmniej ja go nie widziałem, gra jest fantastycznie wręcz spi erdo l ona i nie każdy by tak potrafił. Ale jak już wspomniałem -bez szczególnego zagłębiania się w mechanikę sterowania- jest to najlepsza gra, jeszcze nie zdążyłem dobrze jej zacząć, jak już ją skończyłem i nie widzę sensu by dalej się znęcać nad tą grą, a przedłużanie tego stanu grozi chorobami psychicznymi, zniszczeniami sprzętu domowego lub alkoholizmem. do tej pory nie sądziłem że można coś tak fajnego, tak fantastycznie zje bać, mistrzostwo ! A tym samym autor wpisuje się w schemat że jak jest gra Free to play to jest to równoznaczne żeby w to coś nie grać. Nie będę się wypowiadać w kwestii grafiki czy ścieżki dźwiękowej, bo w to się nie da grać więc nawet na takie drobiazgi nikt nie zwróci uwagi. Jeśli myślisz że tobie się to uda , proponuję poczytać sobie negatywy i sprawdzić w realu, ja zrobiłem odwrotnie i wystukując tę recenzję czuje jak powoli schodzi ze mnie frustracji, a skoczyło mi ciśnienie i jeszcze chwila a nawet tabletki by nie pomogły, a miała to być chwila relaksu i odprężenia :).

This is a very engaging cross between a puzzle game and train management sim. Despite what other reviews say, the controls seemed very intuitive coming from OpenTTD. I am not a fan of the AI art and dialogue but it is only a small amount and not central to the game in any way. Hopefully the developer can find a better replacement for this in the future. If you're like me and don't always have time to play OpenTTD, this could be a great option. The levels are smaller and present a challenge of delivering a final product that goes through a complex supply chain. The fun comes from optimizing the throughput of your network without having to balance an economy--instead, the running cost of your system is used as your score for completing a level. Sort of like SpaceChem or other Zachtronics puzzle games. The game is built with this and mind and very easily allows you to scale up a service with literally one-click. In addition to the levels, there is an open world view that presents different challenges. I found it difficult to plot out the space for a high-throughput system, so instead I designed something with an extremely small footprint. It was quite simple to create a couple rail services that carried mixed cargo to several stations with different orders--not only that, but I could also feed this rail line with a cargo transfer station on a dedicated coal line! I was able to zip through the (long) time to complete the challenge with a fast-forward button with a very bad score. But it still counted! The only thing I would want here would perhaps be different types of top-scores, so you could target your builds for different types of efficiency. So if you like puzzle games and transport tycoon-style games, you'll probably like this. And amazingly, it's free!!

The gameplay is solid and provides interesting and somewhat novel mechanics from being an optimization-themed game rather than just a normal rail builder, and I do enjoy the optimization aspects. In particular, I feel like the costs are balanced very well, so that you do eventually hit a point in an optimized network where squeezing out more production is overshadowed by the increased costs. I do feel like it takes much longer to build things than it probably should. I would highly recommend that the dev consider a copy-paste feature (or even a blueprinting feature), as you spend a lot of time rebuilding the same elements over and over. I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult, given that the game already lets you box-select and move chunks of infrastructure. I only had the patience to play the first few levels, but at a price of free that's probably worth trying out.

i really have been enjoying this game! i found it via a youtuber and since it was free and since i love puzzle games (especially ones where the goal is to maximize efficiency), i had to try it. and its really good! way better than a free game has any right to be. i honestly have no idea what the reviews talking about bad tutorials are talking about. the only thing ive had trouble with at all is the signaling, but i think im also trying to do things before the game tells me how to do them - since im going back and re-optimizing the first few levels, im not unlocking more advanced tutorials. when i moved to a new city last time, it gave me a (very understandable and comprehensive) tutorial on the exact thing id spent quite a bit of time figuring out myself on the previous level. track can be extended. track can be healed (turning a straight-curve-straight section into just a straight, or a curve-straight-curve section into just a curve). throwing one's hands up at that is a sign of a player who was simply unwilling to learn the game mechanics at all. the ai usage is silly and imo doesnt look very good but its such a small non-thing. its a puzzle game, not a story based game, so the ai is nothing but background that can be skipped without any consequences. i wish the dev hadnt used it, but its in no way worth a bad review on its own.

Wat een waardeloze ♥♥♥♥. Je kunt niet eens een fatsoenlijk spoor aanleggen. Telkens weer onbegrijpelijke foutmeldingen. Ook waardeloze tutorial.