It is a really awesome game and with many really cool ideas and features in there!
Creating your own little city, the resources, which get unlocked slowly bit by bit, so you always have the next thing to do, without being overwheelmed. its like a good fusion between anno and open ttd!
but all those cool features feel really half baked... which why i cant recommend it fully.
Everything you produce is used up by your citizen and yourself, some goods are for consumtion, like different food stuffs, others are goods for building and keeping everything intact, like wood and clay bricks.
First problem is, that there is no overview, showing you graphs how much you produce, use up, and for this game, even transport, so you cant quickly see, if you still produce enough of everything, only for the building materials, you can see somewhat a tiny timeline for produced and consumed, but not for all the other goods.
the stations only have a certain range to pull workers in, to send to other work sides, the next bigger station is now suddenly parted, and not mixed anymore, if you dont know that, it suddenly throws a wrench into the engine, as you now need a completely other city layout. also there is a smaller inner city transport missing, i know, its a game with only trains, but if not that, how about trams or something like that, making it easier to create cool cities.
next thing the whole train management... everything is extrem basic. the train update ui, is confusing as hell and may update things you dont want. also allows only to update trains, not the wagons, which also get better. there is no overview over all trains with filters and sortings. you only have one huge list, or you can look into the routs overview, there you can see all trains to one route, but you can only click one by one. setting up trains is super annoying, either you have 5000 routes - for each single item one, or you set each wagon to filter what product is loaded into it. like the more trains you get, however you try to manage the trains its super convoluted.
building a nice network of railways is also not really satisfying, since there are no hights, all is just one big flat plane, so tunnles are missing, which makes junction building feel really bad,
last thing which bugged me a little was the scaling. yes the bigger your city gets, the more it should use up, but the amount was just insane. i had multiple trains bringing in 300 stones and like 8 stone cutters to make me some cut stones. each time a train came in, the cut stone counts up within seconds to the 3-400 stones, and then over 5 seconds to disappear again, since every building is using it up immidiatly again. scaling it up is hard to do, yes production was there easy, just the transport is hard, since adding more trains only helps little bit, as the station was already on an limit. so yeah, scaling productions is quiet complicated, since its not enough to just build more buildings, also since alot of the end product facilities are city only,
