Subway Builder

I really like the game! I've been watching it grow for a while and it's a lot of fun. It's almost everything that I thought it would be. [h1]Pros[/h1] It's very detailed simulation, and the modding on it is fantastic. While there are mostly just US and UK cities, there are maps from mods that, at the time of review, anyone can submit or download to the mods page. The simulation has details that I never dreamed would make it into a game, and if you want to hyperoptimize, the specs are available to you for each train so you can. In terms of the mods, it adds a lot of QoL stuff, as well as things like a "move it!" and track anarchy if you want to play like that. Of course, as above, there are also maps of places like Paris and Melbourne and so on. There are also other trains that mods can add, pretty obviously. I would definitely recommend playing with a few QoL mods, which I'll get into below. It's really easily playable even without a GPU, too. [h1]Cons[/h1] TL;DR: The only qualms I have are that it's really hard at the start because there's not a whole lot of instruction, you kinda have to either follow guides or experiment a few times on a few different maps to figure stuff out on your own. There's a few things that you would expect to be able to work, but at current, don't. One example is, at a quad station, being able to turn around on the outside lines. You can't have four different lines turn around at the same station at the same time with one on each platform, but there's no indication of this. Catchment areas for stations aren't really shown, and there isn't an indication of how big the catchment areas are for stations at all, but there is a mod that shows them for you. It's a little difficult at first to get a sense of scale for the "demand view", but you get used to it pretty quick. When you click a node, it tells you when people want to leave and want to arrive at that node. This is really useful, but there isn't an indication that airports have much more uniform demand across the day, you have to just figure that out on your own, again, with no other indication that you should click on it. The tutorial, at this point in time, basically shows you how to build each part of a track, which is sufficient if you just wanna mess around and figure out the mechanics for yourself like I do, but it's more of a "this is how you build" and not a "this is how you play the game". It feels kinda like if simcity just showed you how to build roads and zone residential, then throws you into the game. [h1]Final recommendations[/h1] Even with all that in mind, it feels like playing RCT2 for the first time again, and it's still a lot of fun once you kinda figure out how things work. This game just came out, and it's definitely still got a few kinks to work out in its early days, with guidance or visualizations or what-have-you, but I would definitely recommend it to people that played cities skylines to mess around with traffic and public transit. It already feels amazing in that regard.