Japanese Rail Sim: Hakone Town of Natural Beauty and Hot Springs

Finally another Japanese Rail Sim game available on Steam. I hope Sonic Powered will continue to release their games on Steam so PC users can also enjoy them. I also hope they will continue to release games and DLC's from the "Real Pro" series on PC/Steam. The game is a fun FMV train simulator with beautiful scenery. If you are interested in Japan or the Japanese railway then give it a try.

Please bring the other ones to the west as well!!!

IMO this and Journey to Kyoto are the best train sims on Steam, balancing a good FMV implementation, nice scenic routes (albeit small and kinda short), attention to detail, a smooth and well done game engine, and fun and engaging Densha de Go like gameplay, rewarding you to play perfectly. Compared to the trainwreck (heh) that is TS Classic or TSW, this is a well made, pick up and play, fun to complete 100%, game. Please port all the series to Steam, I will happily buy them all full price.

Good game but please add Zuiki Controller support. Operating buttons is not the most helpful.

I’m pointing forward before I depart each stations like in real life 👉🏻

This is a good game of this particular full motion video train simulator style, and it's nice to see it fully translated to English. The slow speed and scenic views are unique compared to a lot of the more urban simulators. I would recommend snagging this on a sale because it is a single train line in two different seasons, so it's not a good content value at full asking price. Still, high prices are somewhat par for the course as far as Japanese train sims. As others have mentioned, the promotional videos of the cable car and boat ride are edited in ways that I find a little strange. While I like the "camera pointing forward" passenger view of those other transportation methods, I think a more traditional tourism documentary in addition to that static view would have been really nice, even if it was brief. I don't agree with the other reviewer(s) who surmise that this game wouldn't make sense with the Zuiki Mascon controller. Sure, the train type doesn't perfectly match up with it, but it would have worked just fine if you ask me, and it would be a lot more fun with it. I think they could have found a way to make it work. If you like this type of game, it really seems like the…