I enjoyed a play through. Not enough to do more of the challenges or scenarios. There are some subtleties to it that can cause trouble in the early game. The main thing is don't overwork the people. They will work themselves to death if you set too many objectives at one time.
It's a resource hog. It won't run on my merely decent computer. Be sure you have a high end system or don't bother.
It's quite fun in the beginning. As you advance to higher maps though it gets very space limited. And also each map you have to start over from the beginning so it starts to feel grindy. Only 1 bug I saw was ports would not locate correctly requiring save close and restart the game.
You just get gang murdered by a never ending onslaught of monsters. No pause. No time to craft and build better eqauipment or shelter.
The end game missions become very difficult very fast requiring many many tries per mission to win. Other than that is a raucous fun run of bad behaviour.
It may be a good game, I don't know. It is way way too complicated. The 400 page user manual and lack of a real tutorial are huge obstacles to getting started. You just get thrown in to a ful scale world war. It desperately needs a real tutorial to walk you up the learning curve. If you like them complicated and don't mind diving in then its fine. It's just not for me.
It's a strategy game. It's more complex than it appears. You have to consider everything as you pick your next move. Like real trains, everything has a deadline. You have to carefully choose passengers, cargo, missions, routes, train configuration, train upgrades, etc. Trains go slower with heavier cargo so a deadline you thought you could meet can fail if you load up with steel. Minus 1 star becasue the healing skill does not work.
You don't really get a lot of choices. It guides you into a lot of confusing puzzles. A LOT of dialog. Pretty boring.
I don't like having to play through the same 20 minutes over and over and over again only to get by killed by the alien every time.
It's fun enough as a limited 4x. It doesn't really have a campaign, so after the first play through you are done with the story and then after that it's just more of the same. On a deep discount it's definitely worth a play through.
