When I purchased this game a year ago at $20, this game had its promises. Sure things where just as janky and slow as it is now. Over the course of a year, any competent early access title tends to make good and steady progress. This one devolved into endless discord drama resulting in developers leaving, assets being discarded and minor progression.

Fast forward to 2022, and this game seems it has been in a cyrogenetic state. Sure we got some new models, new sounds, the spline tracks are usuable sort of. But all the sudden, this game is $15 more? $35 for this heap? LOL.
Clunky and ugly UI "one-size-fits all" approach, terrible rail laying mechanics (Limited viewing angles, using numpad and mouse to shift the rails around), everything moves the same speed. You have to load the cargo manually, and you need to repetively use the cranes to load each piece. Driving trains is boring, reverser forawrd, regularor 100%. Need to stop? Put the reverser in the same direction. Works better than most brakes.
Economy mechanic is simple, just a handful of the generic industries and simple resource chains.
Online? Barely. Host will be fine, players will suffer stutters and odd physics. Maybe get so lucky everyone has to restart because of a bug. No notifications on player join, chat (text or voice), clumsy UI and UX contributes to this. Poorly optimized, and environment is ugly as sin (hey atleast we got *1* tree model!).
Sounds are meh, very repetitive however.
Player model needs makeup to finish this whole clown appeal.

For $20, this was a disappointment but I hoped over the course of 1 year we might see some progress. $35?! You're better off setting that on fire. Not sure what Astragon can do for this seemingly hopeless but once promising game. They must have some fine tricks up their sleeve if they think this one can pull around into something that can be challenging and fun.
I'd save this one for the grey markets at $5.

Only perk is the discord is now locked down, suppose they cant piddle all the time away on wasteful drama anymore. Guess thats a perk.

When I purchased this game a year ago at $20, this game had its promises. Sure things where just as janky and slow as it is now. Over the course of a year, any competent early access title tends to make good and steady progress. This one devolved into endless discord drama resulting in developers leaving, assets being discarded and minor progression. Fast forward to 2022, and this game seems it has been in a cyrogenetic state. Sure we got some new models, new sounds, the spline tracks are usuable sort of. But all the sudden, this game is $15 more? $35 for this heap? LOL. Clunky and ugly UI "one-size-fits all" approach, terrible rail laying mechanics (Limited viewing angles, using numpad and mouse to shift the rails around), everything moves the same speed. You have to load the cargo manually, and you need to repetively use the cranes to load each piece. Driving trains is boring, reverser forawrd, regularor 100%. Need to stop? Put the reverser in the same direction. Works better than most brakes. Economy mechanic is simple, just a handful of the generic industries and simple resource chains. Online? Barely. Host will be fine, players will suffer stutters and odd physics. Maybe get so lucky everyone has to restart because of a bug. No notifications on player join, chat (text or voice), clumsy UI and UX contributes to this. Poorly optimized, and environment is ugly as sin (hey atleast we got *1* tree model!). Sounds are meh, very repetitive however. Player model needs makeup to finish this whole clown appeal. For $20, this was a disappointment but I hoped over the course of 1 year we might see some progress. $35?! You're better off setting that on fire. Not sure what Astragon can do for this seemingly hopeless but once promising game. They must have some fine tricks up their sleeve if they think this one can pull around into something that can be challenging and fun. I'd save this one for the grey markets at $5. Only perk is the discord is now locked down, suppose they cant piddle all the time away on wasteful drama anymore. Guess thats a perk.