Sweet Transit

[h1][b] Sour Transit [/b][/h1] I love both city builder and train sims, but I just couldn't get into this game despite 3 attempts. The interface is extremely opaque and the tutorial does an absolutely awful job at explaining anything. Halfed baked instructions that will brick your game if you follow them, with tons of unexplained things between steps. At this point in my life I don't want to dedicate 3 hours of my time to reading external guides and manuals. just so I can play this game.

It was on sale at 80% off, and since I’m a fan of several adjacent genres, including OpenTTD and Factorio, I decided to give it a try. Considering the current price (8,100 KRW / $6.99 USD), I thought it is worth trying. The core concept is appealing and the game seems to have some interesting ideas. However, I’m still not sure what is supposed to motivate the endgame. Is the main goal simply to build increasingly large and complex systems? More importantly, as a Linux player, I ran into a serious issue with Alt-Tab. I understand that the game is built around a heavily Windows-oriented stack (.NET, MonoGame, XNA, etc.), and overall it ran reasonably well until I discovered that I could not reliably recover after Alt-Tabbing out of the game. For me, this is a critical usability issue. I suspect players interested in factory, logistics, and transport simulation games may be somewhat more likely than the average gamer to use Linux or other Unix-like systems, so the poor Linux/Proton experience was ultimately a deal-breaker for me. I probably should have checked ProtonDB before purchasing, but this game has a fairly small player base, so there is not much recent information about ho…

If ANNO and OpenTTD had a child

I like the game but I'm fairly certain I keep running into bugs. Sometimes the bugs are fixed by verifying my game files, but it's concerning that the game is constantly able to break itself in a way where I need to verify game files. Other bugs are weird, like a distribution center setting its number of workers to 0 by itself when I'm not looking. That was confusing seeing my city run out of beer when nothing had changed. I fixed it, and 5 minutes later I checked it again and somehow it had set itself back to 0. I've had a recurring bug where roads stay highlighted after unselecting buildings. Or certain buildings like the train station just not highlighting roads at all when selected. Again these bugs are sometimes fixed by verifying the game files, but then after a few hours of playing they come back, like the game files are somehow breaking themselves again! The actual gameplay is very chill (when it's not bugging out!!!). There isn't really a fail state, although it feels like you can soft lock yourself, but generally if your settlement is in a downward spiral, you can just remove things until it stops spiralling and slowly add stuff back until you figure out what went wron…

trains

had high hopes but alas