Recent reviews by Alice Margatroid

Sony needs to learn, you cant mess with fanatic fan bases, not with out suffering the wrath of super earth. until they do, the reviews will take a helldive.

update. Sony relented on PSN requirement, so for now I am relenting and giving it a positive review sense the game is good, but they still need to restore the game to all of super earth. and to sony, if you mess up again, we will strike again.

update 11/10/2022: so if you bought the early access verson, then on release you lose the two routes the game lauchs with, you also get stuck with the demo verson, but at least you only payed 10 bucks for the demo, everyone else has to pay 30 usd for this demo, and while it will have 3 routes, these will be even shorter demo routes (not like the base content was stupidly short) if you want the full verson of a line (one direction one season) it will be another 30 dollars per route dlc. when compared to another simulator in the same style, which is 60 dollars for two routes with two seasons each and both up and down versons for each season and route, and also features a demo. it provides a much better value for your money then the garbage we are getting here. and honestly this just feels like a bad scam. reguardless of how good the devs are at the simulator side, they fail to understand that not everyone can affort to spend 120 usd to get a compleate game on launch. money is tighter then ever and inflation is hitting us hard, so to do such scummy moves makes this product imposable to recomend as it is.

updated review about a month later: The developer has lacked in any comunication with the comunity, only 1 patch has been provided, I currently do not feel like anything will improve at the current rate. I would advise that if your intrested in this to wait rather then rushing in as the content is just not enough for what it is at its current price.


This is a FMV based simulator in the style of denshi go and railfan games. this means that their are no external cameras to use. the physics are authentic and the stopping distances are long. currently their is not much content and the controls are a little laggy on one of the routes. but the biggest problem is the fact that currently you have two routes with two trains that are really good, but you only have 10 stations between them for stopping and each route is one way currently. hopefully as the game progresses we will get more as I feel like their should be more, but as of right now, only buy this if you want to get a taste of the sim and not if you want a full experience. I still strongly recommend any railfan wishlist it and wait a few months if your worried. overall though, I do recommend it.

I had concerns about this game from the start. however the developer keeps shooting themselfs in the feet. the solo dev repeatedly have gotten a number of very skilled moddlers and even programmers to freely offer up themselfs to help develop this game. yet this dev has managed to turn away free help time and time again by being a toxic dev (think yandere dev) when the only times I get notified on the discord are do to drama and not game updates, and the game updates usually break more then they fix and the game itself is worse then when it relesed. there is zero hope that the game will release as a functioning game. avoid like the monkeypox.

Solid SDG that hopefully maintains a great comunity. its unique in that you do not need good language skills to play.

The core of this route is pretty solid, BUTT. its overpriced, buggy and its clear DT dont care enough to make sure the experience you as a end user have is as good as it should be. the first two tutorials are bugged with the first one resulting in a derail and the second one only being playable if your using the hud for signal aspect. also if your following the journy. its frontloaded with the freight side which has a number of bugged configurations do to carrages breaks not working when vac presure is at max. sometimes you can manually release them by going to the affected carragies and manualling releasing them. but it does not work on all missions/timetables. also, you only get 2 locomotives, and while their is some physical diffrence, the in cab experance is basicly the same. the route is also one of the most empty I have seen, especally compared to many of the other routes.

the biggest loss of quality though, lack of a manual, lack of firing tutorials and the fact that its clear that no one bothered to test the journey first, as that's what people actually experience. and pro tip to game developers, what you try and push your players to experience first should be the best experience their is as otherwise they will judge you for it.

so, TLDR, wait for DT to fix it and do it right. its not ready yet, it should not have been released in its current state, and with the number of broken and buggy routes left in the past that are still not fixed 2 years later. I do not trust dt to fully finish what they have started.

for a visual noval x RPG X SDG, this should not work, yet it does, extreamly compitent ai and very complex depth, and then when you start getting the story, oh boy the story is so good. highly recomend it.

its a very addicting idle game, too much that i needed to remove it so I could actually do the work i need to do. I do think its ui need more work, as the menus for maps suck, but otherwise its fine.

been paying attention to this game for a long time and while I dont have too many hours, I can say that its one of the most accurate and intresting train sim I have played. all of the systems work well and the developer is building the foundations up first before expanding the line. while the route is not super long right now, its got diverse envirements and accurate signling. soon their will be conductor mode as well. so I highly recomend it.

As the game is currently, The game is basically features a worse version of subnautica's survival mechanics and a stupidly long grind time to make the numbers go up, while overall offering no early game hooks and poor navigation and player engagement. no real story and poorly thought out ui. alot of the core mechanics also are ripped from suriving mars but made even more silly.

if you compare this to subnautica, its bland and lacks good exploration, if you compair it to surving mars, its all single player grind with no real management. there is no original bone in its body and I am sad that people are giving it a free pass because its a ea game.

after having played 3 hours on stream, this game is not all its hyped up to be. it lacks a good understanding of what good programming is and rely on exploiting the trashy interface and very weird command interactions to get good results. it does not give good instructions and its tutorial is very poor. it also lacks a good way to use tiered conditionals. so much of the early game feels unfinished and poorly thought out. there is a lack of a good manual to explain the function set like a zacktronics game, and it also chose really poor variable names. the story is also really trash. if you want an actual programming game, look up robot instructius or any zacktronics game. this is not worth it at its price point.