I was in Hamburg earlier this year, visiting among other things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniatur_Wunderland and I thought to myself, wouldn't it fun to play with those train routes again? I bought the "Railroads!" again on Steam, and had a lot of fun for 20-30 hours. Then I read the Railroads! wiki page and found out Sid Meier wrote it exactly because he visited the same Wunderland 7 years before.
Like me, he just wanted a fun train game, not a ruthless economic simulation and i think Railroads! has filled that niche well.
(It's not quite trains, but if you want a resource management game where you have to be careful, try the city builder Banished, built by a single developer)
Like me, he just wanted a fun train game, not a ruthless economic simulation and i think Railroads! has filled that niche well.
(It's not quite trains, but if you want a resource management game where you have to be careful, try the city builder Banished, built by a single developer)