Railway Empire
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Railway Empire is a strategy, simulation and management game
developed by Gaming Minds Studios
and published by Kalypso Media.
Released on January 26th 2018 is available on Windows and Linux
in 10 languages: English, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Korean and Japanese.
It has received 9,316 reviews of which 7,708 were positive and 1,608 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 (64bit versions)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.2 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX460 or AMD Radeon HD5870 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 7 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS + SteamOS (latest)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.2 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX460 or AMD Radeon HD5870 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0)
- Storage: 7 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
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Railway Empire is a solid building and management game that will definitely appeal to fans of the genre. The gameplay is fun, but can feel a bit repetitive. Once you’ve figured out the mechanics and found the right strategy, you can easily apply it everywhere, which can make the game feel a bit too easy. That said, it’s still enjoyable and has that addictive quality that kept me hooked. Achievements Required time: 125-150 hours Difficulty (in my opinion): 5 out of 10 DLCs required for 100%?: Yes, 9 (Mexico, The Great Lakes, Crossing the Andes, Great Britain & Ireland, France, Germany, Northern Europe, Down Under, Japan) To get all the achievements in Railway Empire, you’ll need to finish every campaign mission with the highest rating ("President"). It might sound scary at first, but it’s not as tough as it seems. In the scenarios, you can pick the difficulty level, and with the right strategy, hitting the needed score is pretty straightforward. For the main game, you only need a President rating in one mission per region, but in the DLCs, you’ll need to get it in every scenario. On top of that, there are some extra achievements to unlock, like growing cities to a certain size, setting up express lines between specific cities, or connecting every city on the map. A good trick is to focus on city-to-city traffic first, then use warehouses to boost population growth. Follow that, and you’ll be on the right track!
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A fun campaign, but today after the 25 hour mark i just felt like I had had enough. Making train routes is kinda fun, but once you start making a lot of money, its hard to spend the money faster than you make it, and its just a race to spend the cash laying track faster than you earn it. The game play is sorta similiar connecting each new town, buying a new business, connecting that in, rinse/repeat x100. Big fan of transport Tycoon Delux and Anno games, but 26.8 hours of this, is enough for me.
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This is a magnificent resource management game. Clever historical tasks and settings add depth and context. Highly recommended, but... Warning to new players - especially to those crossing over from Railroad Tycoon who provide so many of the negative comments! There is a learning curve for switch placement and station platform management. This time investment is required to play, and, once mastered, these elements are why RE is such a deeply satisfying experience.
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Railway Empire. *Sigh* The memories this game brings me. If you haven't a resource management game before, this is a good one to train you for it. I didn't intend the pun but I'll just leave it there. The base game takes you through the story of the first railroads of the United States. You'll learn how to set up trains and your grow your business while competing against AI rivals. (No Co-op sadly, which is a big upset to me.) To me, there are two ways to play this. 1. Just set up trains to complete the tasks before they are due and move on, or 2. Play the game in Free Mode and learn how to profit off the stock market. I know the second one sounds weird but, this games mechanics with the stock market are really impressive, and when managed right, you too can control whatever part of the USA you desire. There isn't much on the negative side of things to say, other than the lack of a Multiplayer to me. I'd love to try and manage a railway against some friends but, I'm not against buying out AI. The DLC's are not that necessary to have. They do offer some unique features and more trains that will be familiar to any Thomas the Tank Engine fans, (yes I grew up watching Thomas, don't judge,) but other than that, they are just new regions with their own resources. You don't need to buy them to have a good time. My sole opinion, this game is absolutely worth it to play, but it will take several hours of your day playing so, do think about saving the game session when you can.
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NOTE TO SELF: Most important thing is, to hit "Edit" when planning the stops, so you can choose the platforms for every train! In the beginning I was going crazy, because just clciking on the city leads to every train wanting to use platform 1, and all trains will start on the same rail and block each other, despite freely available double-track! It drove me nuts. - Also: unless you want "President" / 30 Points / 100% rating on the win-screen during the campaign, I strongly advise to go with "Manual Pause": you wont get 100% / 30 Points, but the game only pausing in some Menus / game windows, but not in others drove me crazy. I played the first and second Mission without Pause, and without proper knowledge about platforms, and I almost rage quit the game right there. While it was nice getting full points, it felt immensly stressful to go from deep thinking to immediate stress back and forth the whole time. Another note; hit F1 for ingame help: if you wonder e.g. which cargo counts as "foodstuffs" and thus gets the bonus from refigerated cars - the cargo categories are under "Banking activities" / "Stock Market", for whatever reason. (There are 35 possible different types of cargo in four groups.) After I learned how to play, I found it very addictive. Better than Sid Meier's Railroads tbh, bc it snowballs less drastically, and the maps are larger, thus more to scale. (Sid Meier's Railroads is only ever a challenge on the highest difficulty setting., and then the window when you start buying the AI shares can be quite narrow). I bought Railroad Empire on sale for 30€ with all DLCs, which will probably keep me occupied for the next week. - It is an absolutely worthy successor to the Railroad Tycoon series / genre. While the original Railroad Tycoon and RRT 3 felt more serious and rewarding, they are 20 years out of date, and quite ugly and hard to get running on a new PC. (Also: Been there, done that.) P.S.: After you "merge"=take over your opponents, you also inherit their staff: I tended to liquidate their whole operation, so I could focus better on the last remaining mission goals, but that left me with 50 employees, that I had to find new trains for, when I was ultimately in the last steps of the mission. Even firing 30 of them would have been tiring. - One has three different options; keep everything, keep only the stations and tracks, or liquidate everything. Maybe keeping everything is les hazle. Also probably worth inspecting, what the AI did, while I am still learning?
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Online players
208
Developer
Gaming Minds Studios
Publisher
Kalypso Media
Release
26 Jan 2018
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