Railway Empire
United States, 1830: ‘The New World’ is in its ascendancy. Industry is booming, and the race is on to establish the most dominant and powerful rail empire in all of North America. It’s time to outthink and outmaneuver your competitors as you lead your company into the 20th century!
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition. You’ll also need to hire and manage your workforce if you want to ensure an efficient train service, whilst also develop over 300 technologies ranging from mechanical improvements to the trains themselves to workplace infrastructures and advanced amenities as you progress through five eras of technological innovations.
However, you can’t just build and research your way to the top – the competition never sleeps, and to keep your business on track you’ll have to survive against up to three rival tycoons. To get to the top you may have to resort to more cutthroat tactics as you attack and sabotage your opponents through raids and industrial espionage.
Railway Empire Review
Railway Empire has you build the many railway connections accross the continental United States during the great westward expansion. It is your job to make wagons of money by transporting goods, people and main between towns and suppliers. Eventually you’ll even dabble in real estate and stocks. A veritable money machine. Luckily everything is kept nice and simple so no complicated mortgage and down-payment schemes. Just trains, stations and tracks.
I like watching the rail network unfold. It’s soothing to see your locomotives work hard for you. It can be quite stressful though. Sometimes your competitors leave little room for you to operate and you will have to build stations and tracks far out from where you want them.
Building is easy though. Tracks come out looking neat. However, there is skill involved in building an efficient line that allows for fast travel. You’ll need to learn how to direct trains with signals and switches. Limit arrival platforms for freight and passengers. You’ll even need direct the loading of trains to make sure you have enough resources in the right spot all the time. This is heavy micromanagement and if you’re not into that sort of thing, then you might want to pass on this game.
Despite its easy to learn hard to master appeal and the general appeal of model trains, there is something about this game. The voice acting acting is somewhat off. It’s not unconvincing, but it is overly cartoonish. The delivery is just not on point. Something more subtle might have suited the nature of game a bit better.
My only regret is that after all that building enterprising, it is sad to know that hardly any of all that rail still remains in the USA.
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