The idea of this game has so much potential: Transport passengers and goods by train during the American civil war. But there are so many flaws. Adding an artificial time limit our economy simulation is just a bad idea and I am not talking about deadlines for your deliveries. Your competitor will buy stocks and when he reaches 51% its game over. Or he dishes out reputation penalties that lock you out of jobs and are near impossible to recover from.

Train engines in the early game are really underpowered while at the same time you get access to more and more interesting train compartment which you can’t really utilize until you finally unlock better engines. Also your train engines and compartment are more likely to suffer malfunction the more mileage they travelled. You can repair the malfunction but they are still super likely to suffer another one. The only solution is to replace them.

Add a terrible combat system and bugged mission and there is not much redeemable to say. The free mode might solve a few problems but does not turn it in a better game.