Recent reviews by Floyd

This is a great game. Intuitive enough to play, especially if you have a background in city builders, but complex enough to keep it interesting.

Understandably updates are (were?) slow for a bit because of the reality of Ukraine :(

Easy to recommend this game. Worth the purchase.

I have about 800 hours in RE1 and was both looking forward to and dreading RE2. Dread because sequels often don't impress me.

I currently have about 24 hours in RE2 and I am really enjoying the game. It's similar enough to RE1 that there was basically no learning curve, yet different enough to keep it interesting. I'm not sure if I just used warehouses incorrectly in RE1, but the system here allows for really complex freight lines - They absolutely make my brain hurt when calculating what's going to end up where.

Overwhelmingly I would recommend this game, especially if you like RE1 or RT2. It will scratch that itch for sure! The graphics are also really easy to look at.

Somethings to be warned about (Things I'd love to see improved).

When laying parallel tracks, especially around bridges and curves, the game is buggier than RE1. In RE1, maybe 1 out of a 100 track builds had a little red preventing the building of said track, but in RE2 I would say that happens 1 out of 5 track builds. It's frustrating to have to go in and tweak what seemingly should be an easy task.

MP was a complete let down. Currently you can only play cooperatively, there is no competing against other players. Once my friend and I decided that, even though it was weird to share the same money and work on the same lines, we'd give it a shot... well, we were disappointed pretty quickly by the lag. The lag eventually (before the first year is done) is so bad that it becomes unplayable.

It's annoying that you can only build so many buildings and extensions, but I suppose it just makes the game more challenging.

Those are really my only complaints thus far.

Overall, I was looking forward to this game. The day it came out, I read the "mixed" reviews on steam. I thought about the purchase for a couple of days and eventually was buzzed just enough that I decided to do it. 24 hours later, I'm glad I did. Each chapter is a fun little puzzle that helps one settle after a long day at work.

I very much wanted to like this game, and there are elements that are interesting. I have enjoyed Railway Empire for many hours and am a former Railroad Tycoon player. Perhaps my expectations were more of a game like those titles, but this is not that.

My largest complaint is this just becomes tedious very quickly. It's a VERY slow start to the game, everything is expensive to build/buy and then equally expensive to maintain. It takes 20 years to get money to build many things... and once you do, now you also need to upgrade older trains. Additionally, it's annoying to set the lines and assign vehicles. Too many clicks, Railway Empire does this much more efficiently.

Beyond all those things, it's just buggy as heck. Sometimes things don't produce correctly. You need to be ridiculously careful with placements and there is no room for error. I don't mind games that are like this, but TF2 doesn't show you how to solve any error and it becomes frustrating trying to figure it out.

Finally, there are just no milestones to aim for. It's completely open. I thought I'd be okay with this, but I have learned that for myself it's nice to have things to aim for. Maybe get a factory to a certain level, or help a city grow? Maybe transport a set amount of this freight or that. Railway Empire does a great job of this and TF2 doesn't even attempt it.

I wanted to like this game, but I found it more work than enjoyment fairly quickly. Too bad. At least I got it on sale.