I was really looking forward to this game but it ended up being a second game I had to request a refund and here is why:
Tutorial is so bad and buggy that I had to restart the scenario two times only to get softlocked on an infinite red light later. And before you think that I am an idiot, I followed the guidance step by step slowly—twice. I did not interact with anything I wasn't supposed to. But a button would work once, and then it wouldn't. I also got a penalty for driving with open doors when they were clearly closed. Like, how is this game so broken? And all of this happened in the first tutorial! When I tried a normal route, I wasn't even able to start the train. The game simply did not tell me anything.
The controls are super weird too. In order to look around, you have to hold RMB. The game feels like a point-and-click adventure game when you are walking. Everything you interact with comes with a prompt window asking you what you want to do, and this gets annoying super quickly when you just want to open a door and have to answer a dialog window every single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time. In the cabin, there are almost no hotkeys, and the ones that are there suck. This game wants you to play with three hands: one on the mouse, a second on the numpad, and a third on the left side of the keyboard.
Performance is, for some weird reason, super inconsistent. It averages 90 FPS for me, but when I turn around, it drops below 40 FPS, and in MSI Afterburner I can see huge frametime spikes. Also, you can really see the performance take a ♥♥♥♥ with the horrible motion blur that is enabled by default, causing it to freeze and unfreeze constantly.
I think its only saving grace is the multiplayer, though I did not buy the game with the intention to play it anyway. Also, since I only had two hours, I did not get to try the multiplayer at all, so I can't say much about it.
I wanted this game to escape TSW 6 for a bit, but I have not had a worse experience than this in a very long time. After looking at other reviews, many people agree that the single-player is mediocre at best and the tutorials are absolute garbage.
In conclusion, unless you strictly know you want this game, don't buy it. It is not ready.
