Trainatic

Trainatic is what I like to call an “Active-Incremental-Game. It’s a fun little puzzle game that starts off simple but steadily introduces new mechanics that keep things interesting. The basic concept is simple, like with most of these kinds of games, but feels very rewarding. You have a train, you shoot stuff around the train, gather resources, upgrade the skill tree, more trainwagons, different weapons, new maps, new objective, buff cars so it is important how you set up the train and so on. While simple in concept it gives you that itch of an incremental game with numbers going brrrrr, and slowly processes become faster and faster. While you can’t fully go afk for most of the game towards the end you unlock some features for this. The reward loop will definitely keep you hooked until you completed the game. Trainatic is a perfect game to kill a couple of hours, while watching or listing to something and relax while things on your screen explode and numbers go higher and higher =)

Начинается игра неплохо, но чем дальше, тем скучнее. Я пишу этот обзор, пока поезд сам фармит в фоне. А это совсем не айдлер… поначалу. Справедливости ради, в конце это именно айдлер, и это совсем не плюс, а просто скучный гринд. Другая большая проблема — много ярких убивающих глаза вспышек, отключить нельзя. Плюс явно автор сам в неё не играл, уровни легко можно провалить прямо в момент старта из-за кривой генерации.

Late game is an unnecessary grindfest. - You basically need almost all available upgrades at any time to progress in late game - i.e. game doesn't reward the player for being clever, but just for wasting time - Not enough to have all the key upgrades, but also some bonuses you get in the achievements tab - the utility of those is hard to track.... again, rewards player for just playing, not for thinking - Story is incomplete

A fun incremental game that slowly turns into an idler. Trainatic's progression system works incredibly well for the length of the game. Every upgrade actually felt like it mattered all the way to the end game and through that the transistion into an idler did not feel forced and awkward, it just kind of happened naturally. It was a lot of fun jsut swapping my train cars around to find the ideal combination for maximum efficiency. While almost all the upgrades were useful I definitely felt the grenade launcher was lacking real bad compared to even the first pea shooter I started with, but everything else more than made up for it. A good time and scratches that itch for more trains in my life.

I'll broadly agree with the other reviews. Game is kinda fun, but not spectacular. It's best early on, but the way the game evolves makes it less fun through the mid and late game. If you like incrementals and you can get it cheap, it's worth considering.

Boring game. Not worth your time. Even when AFK.

Great little game. But the endgame it to grindy for me.

The endgame felt a bit off like they didn't really know how to balance it, but it was a cool concept executed fairly well. Worth the price of admission.