Road Works

Road Works looks like a city building game but really it's a simple transit/business simulator. Build roads economically and tweak settings of the surrounding businesses to turn a profit. This is a lot like Sim City without the city building components, and if that seems like a dumb idea, well, here we are. There's a few transit simulation games on Steam, and all of them are better than this. People looking for a good transit simulator (why???) would be better off looking at Cities in Motion or similar.

This feels as a student project. I couldn’t even play it because there is no tutorial and literally no way to discover yourself what are you supposed to do. You click buildings, no information really. Cars dumbly go one through another like they are ghosts, doesn’t matter one comes from one side and other in opposite direction. When placing roads you have no guidance whatsoever, sometimes you just can’t place them, god know why, Who lets this kind of games on steam? This game is outrageously bad.

1/10

After playing this game once half a year ago, becoming frustrated and abandoning it after a couple of hours, I thought my money was wasted. However, I gave this game another go and appreciated the intellect and strategy underlying its complex mechanics. The campaign scenarios are brilliantly devised and definitely challenging. Funnily enough, the earlier missions have little room for error, but as you progress, it becomes a lot more forgiving. Thumbs up and I will definitely buy RoadWorks 2.

Total waste of money

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