Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator

[seagoon]

Now available on Steam. Early Access but good positive comments.
Demo also available.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/998400/TransSiberian_Railway_Simulator/?queue=1

[haverfordwest]

Demo was lousy or prologue or whatever it was called Bruce. Track laying and gradient creation was abysmal.
I saw early access was out yesterday thank you buddy.

Mike.

[seagoon]

I haven't downloaded anything, Mike....neither the demo nor the prologue and I doubt if I'll be buying it.

[haverfordwest]

Hiya Bruce, it is only 122km long as well (76 miles) which is pathetic when the TSR stretches for thousands of miles.
I said on Steam when i posted about the prologue. If anyone wants an east european railway, better to buy SimRail.

Mike.

[seagoon]

So are you saying that the full game only goes for 122 kilometres? It's billed as the "trans-Siberian" and that';s a damned sight further than 122 miles!!

[ngc427]

I bought it the other day and finally got around to playing it today, and I really enjoy it. Its very much not a "simulator" in a train simulator sense, but more of those joke "simulator" games like "Internet Cafe Simulator 2". The locomotive physics feels actually really nice and not too unrealistic, the operations are pretty realistic feeling too, the graphics are fairly well done, and I really enjoy how hard the devs lean into the stereotypical 1980s Russia. You literally have a hangover bar, where if it gets to high you die from quitting alcohol cold turkey, you're quite literally driving trains while drunk on vodka, which is about as stereotypical Russian as it gets. Even the whole comedic shock of guns in a train game is sort of explained too, your involved with a Russian mafia after being released from the gulag for work on the railroad.

Definitely not for everyone, but if you enjoy the comedy along with the train-driving gameplay, it's really not half bad.

[NorthernWarrior]

Price is quite good £13.94 showing on Steam. Although I wasn’t impressed with the demo might give the EA version a shot, just for chuckle value. Agree that 76 miles doesn’t quite equate to the whole Trans Siberian route but it’s longer than most TSW routes. Maybe the full version will be slightly longer.

[haverfordwest]

So are you saying that the full game only goes for 122 miles? It's billed as the "trans-Siberian" and that';s a damned sight further than 122 miles!!

Early Access is 75 miles approx Bruce, cannot see them extending it much further after EA. With the poor standard of track laying and gradient creation. They could have done the whole TSR in a month 🤣🤣.
It's a game i know i will never buy and was of that opinion after playing the prologue version.

Mike.

[eric]

Nate's description and endorsement tempts me to install Steam, something I loath considering.......

[NorthernWarrior]

Can anyone who has played this enlighten me how you use items from the main inventory (I or Tab) into the quick inventory, Q, so you can use them? Got to the section in the tutorial where you have to grab the wrench and change out the speedometer but having filled the quick menu with food items I can’t get anything out of the main one. Ought to be possible to move stuff back and forward as you need it.

[seagoon]

Can anyone who has played this enlighten me how you use items from the main inventory...

Have another slug of vodka and that will surely help you, Vern.

[NorthernWarrior]

Have another slug of vodka and that will surely help you, Vern.

Ha, ha. Anyhow reloaded save game and the mechanism seemed to work this time. Obviously a very glitchy game.

The whole thing is a bit daft as you need to drink beer or vodka to stop your hangover reaching a critical level, but if you move or drive after consuming too much alcohol, everything goes blurry or double vision!

Thankfully there is a pure simulation mode where you can just operate the train and ignore the mafia and other game mechanisms.

[NorthernWarrior]

Refunded. Given the time this has been in development early access should be much better than what they are offering. When the developers roadmap is talking in terms of "years" to get to a finished state then got to take the view that is unlikely to happen.

[seagoon]

Well, at least you gave it a go, Vern......which is more than I did.
And being a Steam item you got your money back.