Worth it?

[メルクーネオ]

How good is it?

[Dinoman_47]

If you are someone who likes trains and railroading, building tracks and growing an empire of your own design. I would say it is very much worth it, every last penny. If you can buy the game for a cheaper price during a special event. Then you totally should.

[Sandy]

just try it, its free for the next days :)

[Bizzo]

Guys, I don't understand if this game is multiplayer or not.
I mean, can you build your empire challenging other players on the same map like a sandbox? i don't mean simply co-op, I really mean multiplayer.

[Dinoman_47]

It is Co-op not multiplayer in the sense of you vs. someone else

[Sandy]

You can build up things together and run your trains together. E.g. you want to deliver goods to an industry, you need to lay tracks and load/unload goods and you have to operate the train. You can do that all by yourself or together with others, as your friend might lay the track, an other one coulples the locos and waggons, you drive the drain and an other friend loads/unloads the goods. Thats up to you how you want to play it together but its not playing against each other. You build your world together.

[Puncake]

Originally posted by Mercuneo:

How good is it?

Try it out, it's free! But remember than It is early access. Release is scheduled for Q4 2024. So it's not bug free. But you can defenitaly have some fun with it. You can do 1-16 player games. Multiplayer is a bit buggy, singleplayer is the most stable.

Make sure you got a powerful 'enough' pc or otherwise you'll have problems. The game will not run well on integrated CPU graphic systems.

They recently added tutorials to get new players started. If you decide to get it, and you feel like you need help with anything, feel free to ask. The community is here to help! Tho there is also a bunch of trolls. Don't mind them.

[fixins]

Buy it. You won't be sorry. It's unique, there's nothing else like it on the market and it'll only improve. If you want to BUILD and DRIVE, this is the place to be at the moment.
1400 Hrs of mostly solo play.....$35 well spent.

[spacemountain7992]

The rail simulator community has a collective case of Stockholm syndrome, and it has to be honestly said that what makes a "good train game" is a very very very low bar. The UI is a mess, the physics simulation is only surface deep, the commitment to historical accuracy wavers, the optimization is terrible, each update breaks something different in the game, and really the main reason there is still a following is the gameplay loop of "multiplayer with custom track laying" is still unique (for now) in the rail simulator world.

If you want to play another "pre-alpha" title dropped on the world under the guise of "Early Access" then go right on ahead. The gameplay loop shows promise and you can have fun in it with the basic concept, but get ready to bang your head against the wall a lot as the bugs try and sap the fun from the game as you play it.

[twil]

You can also play this game solo. Truly an amazing game.
Buy it

[Weißbrot]

Originally posted by Mercuneo:

Worth it?

Yes.

[Topper]

It really depends on what you're looking for to "waste time".

I played RRO over the free weekend a lot. Connected the Lumber Camp with the Mill and used the 'Montezuma' to bring logs to the Mill. After a few runs I bought additional cards to bring the planks and beams from the Mill to the depot. Did that for a while to get funds.
Then I figured out what to do with the wood from the Mill. So I build a track to Iron Ore. That's when the game became interesting. Because of the 2%-3% incline, I bought a second engine with 4 driven axles and pulled 4 cards up to that mine (2 planks, 2 beams). Then I bought 10 hopper cards for ore and build a small yard with 3 lanes near the Mill. The 'old' track as a passing lane, a lane for empty hopper cards and a lane for full ones. So I pulled up the 4 wood cards and 2 empty hopper cards up to the Mine, dropping the wood and filling up the two hopper with ore, back to the Mill, I stored the two full cards in the yard and hooked up two empty ones, got the wood at the Mill and drove up the mountain again. After 5 runs, I finally had 10 full ore cards at the yard.
Then I build my 3rd and final track to the Smelter. So I brought the 10 full hopper cards with ore to the Smelter, and brought the empty hopper back to the yard at the Mill. I switched back to the 'Montezuma' and drove the empty log cards to the Lumber Camp, bought 10 cards for cordwood, and brought that to the Smelter. Drove the empty cards back to the Camp and delivered logs from the Camp to the Mill again to complete the cycle.
Couldn't figure out what to do with the iron produced by the Smelter, I guess there's a use to that too, but I would've needed more than a weekend to figure that out.

So that's the actual game play, you're going to couple/uncouple cards a lot. Stop a train at a station and loading it up manually, and very slow (e.g. you have 10 cards but can only load up two at a time). The rides between stations are rather short by comparison. In the end it's rewarding to see a new industry you added to your track system see it's production get going etc.

If you're into that, the game is fun. But there's nothing more to it, it's pretty repetitive but chill.

[twil]

Nothing more satisfying then laying the track and testing the locomotive over the route you choose

[Pyrotrainthing]

Not the worst experience as a game, could be better but not the worst. I would recommend the game when it's more feature complete.

[wsor4007becker]

I would recommend waiting until they actually do the code rework they have talked about for a year, fix the poor performance when you actually start to populate the world, and the issues with multiplayer. This EA title has been out for 2 years with very little progress at its core, and with Railroader going into early access in December, and Century of Steam coming in the future, I would buy into them instead and wait to see if this game ever actually stops spinning its wheels.

[Vulgaris Magistralis]

Mind you I am at 150ish hours. The game has a lot of potential as it is an early release and still in development game. Try it out while it is free and see what you think. I have only been playing solo, trying out different ways to do things and I am enjoying it. The two maps that we have thus far have some steep areas that really make you think of how to lay track to get up and down. As noted, loading is slow, but for the current time period I think getting one or two cars loaded at a time is more than enough. Its definitely one of the better railroad games that I have played over the last 30 years.