Anyone playing Train Fever?

[paperfist]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/304730/?snr=1_620_4__45

It has mixed reviews with love or hate results. Looks like a throw back to the old railroad tycoon games, but also has Transport Tycoon vehicles as well.

I'd really love to buy a builder game that doesn't suck.

So can anyone recommend this?

 

[Elcs]

I was tempted when it first came out but 'mixed reviews' on the sale put me off.

What kind of builder games are you looking for?

 

[paperfist]

I was tempted when it first came out but 'mixed reviews' on the sale put me off.

What kind of builder games are you looking for?

It might just be in my head, but I really loved playing the old Railroad tycoon games and Transportation Tycoon games. You got a sense of accomplishment building your company from nothing into a juggernaut. Putting the AI to shame and building engineering marvels. Yeah, and they are just games

Maybe it's because they were simple in design, but open ended. I've played all the new Civ games and can't really get into them. Played Cities in Motion, Banished, etc and they don't really hold my attention. The most recent builder I've put any amount of hours into is Prison Architect.

 

[heymrdj]

Have a thread currently going here, lots of good suggestions. Didn't know if you had noticed it: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2414209

 

[cyphilis]

Watching this thread. I loved Transport Tycoon back in the day. I'd spend countless hours building my empire up and running the competition into the ground,.. when my brother would get in the game and delete it all thinking it was his game save. This looks just like it except updated, and I'd love to go back to that. Just don't want to spend $25 or $30 to find out its not what it appears to be. To bad they don't have a demo.

 

[heymrdj]

Watching this thread. I loved Transport Tycoon back in the day. I'd spend countless hours building my empire up and running the competition into the ground,.. when my brother would get in the game and delete it all thinking it was his game save. This looks just like it except updated, and I'd love to go back to that. Just don't want to spend $25 or $30 to find out its not what it appears to be. To bad they don't have a demo.

You'd think steam would have a way to leverage this for people. Like free leased keys that allow the game to launch for 3 days or something and can't retain save data, or delete save data after 3 days.

 

[Elcs]

It might just be in my head, but I really loved playing the old Railroad tycoon games and Transportation Tycoon games. You got a sense of accomplishment building your company from nothing into a juggernaut. Putting the AI to shame and building engineering marvels. Yeah, and they are just games

Maybe it's because they were simple in design, but open ended. I've played all the new Civ games and can't really get into them. Played Cities in Motion, Banished, etc and they don't really hold my attention. The most recent builder I've put any amount of hours into is Prison Architect.

If you like PA, you might like RimWorld. Still in alpha (a la PA) but very moddable, active modding community, voted #2 in Top 100 of 2014 in the IndieDB vote and has a 95% identical art style (RimWorld dev self confessed sucked at graphics, made it as a placeholder of sorts, PA dev approved so they've stuck).