Steel Artery: Train City Builder

I didn't see any "Early Access" page, so I thought this game was done. It is currently not very playable. Balancing is not very good, especially in the early game. Completing the first quests yield no reward, and you apparently need to get halfway through the tech tree before leaving the starting area. I kept running out of "Iron parts" while trying to build the infrastructure necessary to make them: Mines, Smeltery, Forges. A more balanced game would ensure your base input resources allow you to bootstrap yourself to other techs, rather than relying exclusively on the starting resource pool. The tutorial is also pretty bad, I think if you faithfully followed it you'd get a "game over" because it slow walks you through everything. The soft music is also pretty underwhelming, feels like placeholder music. Not recommended.

[h1]This game is a bizarre allegory for real life (not in a good way)[/h1] I really wanted to like this game, and for the 1st few hours it seemed to be ok, It did feel like the tutorial was rushing me a bit towards an arbitrary goal, and since the rest of the tech tree was locked behind that goal presumably, and I could see I was starting to run low on starting resources I played along. I notice I'm starting to run low on plates and I need the "pressing" research to build the workshop that produces these, I have a warehouse full of iron ingots so I figure I'm good, So I rush the quest, only to find out (because there's no way to see beforehand) that actually the pressing workshop needs gears, and I don't really have any, so no I need to unlock the assembly workshop, and I need to mine copper. but I can't build either of these because... I don't have plates so we already hit the 1st soft lock, where resource producer don't follow the bootstrapping rule. but I'm like hey man I've played hard games, I beat frostpunk and ixion I can figure this out, so I remember you can 100% refund the materials on buildings, so eventually I deconstruct enough buildings and structural blocks to get …

The game looks promising but is unplayable. I can't get it to run more than 2 minutes before crashing.

More broken than the demo was. For some reason my carriers just refuse to load coal into the engine so the train won't go anywhere, there's one guy stood around stuck at the coal thing which is possibly what is blocking. Freezing and unfreezing the engine has no effect. Disappointing as I found the demo very engaging

To preface I have not personally experienced many of the bugs other people have mentioned. Things are moving around correctly. They may have been fixed or maybe I have just been lucky. So far the game has been fun (largely what you'd expect, building a colony on a train) and I expect it to only get better. The dev admitted a mistake in not releasing into early access as he seems to intend to continue developing the game and that it is not in a finished state at this time. I bought it on sale and if development continues, with more stuff added in the future, I think it will be easily worth the full price.

It need nore work , The Developer also promised to give more and intensively apologise for his early launch. but so far The game is good with environment and mecanics. Even though it need more work. It's still a worth it to buy. It's not buggy and npc actually work how it suppose to . The train also function accordingly. Here's my specifications where the dev should work: + Layers of train. like if the hight limit can be further extended in future game update. + Raids, as it a survival management game. it would give a different aspect to the game . + Npc manual work designation. it can give the player actively involve with game npc.