Hypertrain

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Fun game until you hit the end of the track

[h1]What is this game about?[/h1] The premise of the game is very simple. You steer a "Hypertrain" through a low-poly, retro-graphics but futuristic-looking world. There are cities and roads with multiple lanes connecting those cities, which are auto-generated with a randomimzable seed. You can also build your own roads. Each city offers missions you can complete which help you earn money. With your earned money, you can upgrade your train (add more cars that upgrade your train's stats). Other players (Multiplayer) or AI (Singleplayer) competes with you to be the first Hypertrain to reach 50 cars length, which wins you the game. [h1]What can you do to earn money?[/h1] [b]Play as a cargo/passenger runner[/b] You can transport cargo between cities to earn money. You do this by accepting cargo transport missions at a city. Certain cities demand certain goods depending on their size. Once their demand is satisfied, they upgrade (e.g. from a Village to a City) and demand even more resources afterwards. If you are smart about it you can make a city grow huge. You can also transport passengers, which helps cities grow population wise (but does not upgrade them). The more often you transport passengers safely in a row, the more they trust you and you get a hefty bonus for a non-death streak. Both transport options give you a bonus based on how fast you delivered cargo/passengers (up to 2 times). [b]Play as an explorer[/b] Exploring is also viable, as discovering new cities gives you a welcome bonus, discovering unconnected cities by building new roads gives you a huge bonus and discovering all cities on the map gives you a gigantic bonus. [b]Play as a battle train[/b] You can also hunt marauders, which are malicious hypertrains that shoot at you as soon as they see you. If you destroy them, you can pick up the money they dropped. You can also accept bounties to increase your earnings. [b]Play as a constructor[/b] New since v0.9 (December 2018) is building new connections as a game strategy. This is by far my favourite part of the game. You can build your own roads, and build them more effectively with construction wagons (you can go faster while building roads in front of you). Connecting two cities that want to be connected (you have to accept a mission) gives you huge amounts of money, helping you progress towards victory. [h1]How does it play?[/h1] One game lasts a few hours, depending on AI difficulty. It is quite challenging at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's incredibly fun. It is important to stick to once strategy if you want to win (don't mix hunting marauders with transporting cargo for example). You can upgrade your train to go up to 1000 km/h (625 mph) and cruise through the world. The roads are populated with traffic as well as other AI-controlled Hypertrains, which makes the world feel alive. I personally keep playing after you reach 50 wagons, since the game lets you do so, and building new connections and watching cities grow is a lot of fun for me. As of v0.8, Multiplayer has been added to the game. [h1]Are there any negatives?[/h1] The game currently has a few annoying bugs, but the developer is personally answering every bug report I filed so far and it seems like he is taking fixing those bugs seriously. I'm certain the game will improve with time. I tried out multiplayer back when it came out and it was unfortunately very buggy, but it has already been updated and fixed according to the developer. I have yet to try it out. Multiplayer unfortunately currently is only over direct IP connections, but the developer is working on a server browser. [h1]Would I recommend it?[/h1] This game is only a little over 8€ (and currently discounted 50%) at the time of writing (December 2018), and the developer is actively updating and developing the game. This low price is a really good bargain for what you get and the positives far outweigh the negatives, which will surely only get better in the future. I would 100% recommend the game, since it has already brought me 23 hours of fun and I can get over a few minor bugs, especially for this price.