Feels sort of like decorating a Cracker Barrel with the IKEA catalog. Assets aren't cohesive to each other or their environment and era. Expected objects specific to train stations. Not enough trains. Casual and relaxing house flipper adjacent to the inactive railroad.

The soundscape feels hollow without any train sounds. You could still hear them from quite far away if showing them roll by was infeasible. I think I was expecting to restore a station to it's former golden era glory. Or remodel a steam depot for the needs of the diesel age. Or even re-branding a branch line after being bought up during consolidation. Or just standard yearly maintenance. It doesn't feel like anyone on the team is actually a rail fan. It doesn't feel like anyone bothered to talk to people who are actually into trains. I have never seen a ficus in a depot. Even in pictures. Even in historical pictures when people were into ferns. I think I'm trying to say that rail fans have been known to be rather picky and this feels like a house flipper game with railroad tracks. They're onto something but miss the mark for me in it's current form.

Feels sort of like decorating a Cracker Barrel with the IKEA catalog. Assets aren't cohesive to each other or their environment and era. Expected objects specific to train stations. Not enough trains. Casual and relaxing house flipper adjacent to the inactive railroad. The soundscape feels hollow without any train sounds. You could still hear them from quite far away if showing them roll by was infeasible. I think I was expecting to restore a station to it's former golden era glory. Or remodel a steam depot for the needs of the diesel age. Or even re-branding a branch line after being bought up during consolidation. Or just standard yearly maintenance. It doesn't feel like anyone on the team is actually a rail fan. It doesn't feel like anyone bothered to talk to people who are actually into trains. I have never seen a ficus in a depot. Even in pictures. Even in historical pictures when people were into ferns. I think I'm trying to say that rail fans have been known to be rather picky and this feels like a house flipper game with railroad tracks. They're onto something but miss the mark for me in it's current form.