Pleasent little game, good for a passtime activity. At least until you run out research-items and development of your colonies.
My first impression was truly WOW! The graphics are great and the train models are beautiful detailed. At last a sim where the track-layin cuts trough the landscape (instead of complete unrealistic climbs over high mountains), bridges and tunnels appears whre it should. You may choose from a wide selection of stations, from the simple singletrack rural platform to the large -track citystation with signal controls. The track-laying take som time to get to grip with. The signal posting and double-tracking too. This is due to a rather poor tutorial section. But alas, after playing this for some time the weaknesses start to irritate. One issue is the availeble commodities. i.g. London has textile-mills and needs fabric,- the problem is that the fabric does not exist anywere, and this is just one isolated example. So even how hard you try, your cities does just evolve to a certain extent. It's not a fault as such, but I is baffled over the developers facination for steam-locomotives beccause the locomotives does not develop into modern -times electric locomotives. Railway Empire has the potential to be an all time great game, but... TC/Oslo
To start with the positives: the graphic is stunning, the locomotives are modelled beautiful and for the first tim you can lay your tracks carving troug the terrain. My negatives is that the timeperiod is stemtrains only, the resources on the maps are useless beccause no city needs them and the placement of signals are troublesome. But to summarize: I like the game and I'm having lots og fun playing it.
