Judgement: Not Recommended

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Experience life as a train driver or passenger with inexplicably mundane real-time railway journeys.

Just as driving arbitrary trains, Train Sim 2020 likewise presents situations that give you a particular issue to overcome, for example, a cancelled train or a absent driver. These incorporate a fast travel trip along a German S-Bahn highway, a Great Western Express excursion from Paddington to Reading, and a cargo train administration along New York's East passageway to Newark. There's likewise administration mode that lets you bounce on and off booked trains like a traveler, driving any you extravagant or essentially riding around watching out of the window.

There's a tutorial that tells you what to do and how to operate a train and all that, but it does so once, leaving you with a huge bank of mostly unexplained switches, buttons and levers to look at, which for the uninitiated is at least as daunting as it sounds. It’s also different for each train, and while they share common features, their start-up routines and operating techniques are different enough that it requires either an extremely good memory or a lot of wild stabbing in the dark for your first few journeys in each locomotive.

Once you’ve got the hang of starting up, accelerating and braking in the right place, there’s a far greater challenge to overcome: boredom. Graphically it’s all a bit fuzzy, with interiors accurately modelled but not exactly high definition, while outside trackside detail is relatively light, the sleepers that underpin the tracks pop in distractingly a few metres in front of the train as it moves forwards.

Unfortunately, due to the complexity and lack of guidance on how to operate a train etc, as well as fuzzy graphics , i wouldn't recommend this game at all!

Review posted on 19/04/2020, 06:20:00.