Empire Railway - Railway Transportation Management Strategy which Fun However Complex

Railway Empire is a game of management and rail transport simulations developed by Gaming Minds Studio and published by Kalypso Media Digial . This game release on January 27, 2018 ago.

This game can be fairly similar to its predecessor Railroad Tycoon , where the goal in this game is to make rail transport connections from one city to another city. Not only interconnect between cities, but indirectly we help these towns to grow and become the number one in the rail transport competition.

Railway Empire offers many game modes you can choose from, such as a campaign or a story slightly touching the historical development of the railway, to the sandbox mode where you have unlimited money, meaning free. You can play this game at a certain eras with this type of technology and locomotives different course. However gameplay modes between themselves tend to be the same, and no differences were too significant.

Here are some of the features of the gameplay is interesting (and complex) you need to know

Wake up networks between cities and industrial

Railway Empire has five folders that you can choose the region itself, where each folder itself there is a terrain different, such as a binder filled with forests and mountains, or even a flat map with the arid atmosphere of films like the wild west . Each region has a lot of cities and industrial sites are mutually diffused, where we connect with each other train lines.

Each city can have up to 3 factories can be built by investors or us as a player, so that in addition to delivering cargo, passengers and mail, our task more is m e nghubungkan city by the supplier in accordance with the demand that is largely influenced by the plant located in the city , This plant produces goods will also be sent to the cities that have demand for the desired item.

Each cargo or passenger is sent from one location to another will produce a certain amount of money that you can use to buy new locomotives or train crews employed and also other purposes.

Planning and construction of railway lines

Railway Empire gives us the freedom to build a railway line, so you may want to make railway lines neat and straight or want a little past the areas of forests, mountains, rivers and around the lake. But the development of these pathways using money that must be influenced by several factors, so need to plan a bit overcooked.

One factor that will most often you come across is a factor incline , or easy is how terjangnya hiking trail that will be passed by the train. Incline will affect the speed of your train highly hike, so maybe you need a powerhouse right if indeed the path through which passes much climbing terrain.

This game will automatically change the terrain or to make a bridge as drawn above you can see or even create a tunnel to have the smallest incline of the track you are going to make. Changing terrain, bridges and tunnels make this course requires no small amount of money, but you can also set their own course for a fixed according to the terrain so that prices remain low but with a higher incline.

Research and get new locomotives

One important thing you have to do in this game is to use points of research to get the technology that includes equipment and mechanisms of the station, until a new locomotive and its machinery or the parts that support better train set.

You can select from a variety of research many options as you wish or priorities, such as resistance trains that are not easily damaged or perlengakapan-station equipment so that any cargo or passengers you carry can provide more benefits and more. Every couple of points are spent, you can go to research for locomotives, each locomotive on the design and capabilities of the different; No special mengantarakan cargo, special express trains take passengers and mail or even equal in both cases.

If previously we've seen some interesting features are quite easy to understand, now the author will explain a few things that can be said is quite complex but important and need to be studied. Just like the games in general management, micromanagement or see directly the conditions of carriage and its crew, the path, the stations should you pay attention to competitors on a regular basis.

Placement Signal and Supply Tower on train track

Sure you do not want to spend a lot of money by providing a single lane for a series of trains. Indeed one path can be bypassed by a few trains at once. This is where the semaphore is extremely important so that two trains in opposite directions using a single point never faltered or wait too long.

You can make a side track or side track on a track that already exists, and place the semaphore that one of the two trains can wait for a train that only passes in the side lane or vice versa. This needs to be done so that the second train did not stop at the station which can lead to both the train or even prevent other trains who wish to enter one of the stations and cause chaos.

The author himself is still often encounter this problem, where some trains stopped operating because no path is used together. So careful planning is really needed in making the railway lines and the placement of the signal.

Each of the path requires at least one supply tower which serves to provide supplies such as gasoline, coal and sand for a series of trains continued to operate optimally. Supply tower can also function as a substitute signal, where the train can wait and conduct refill service is available in the side lane track.

Although we are able to use more than one line for each set of the train, this is where the challenge that you have to face; build a railway network that effectively and efficiently with a limited budget.

Micromanagement at each station of origin and destination

When determining the origin and destination stations, the train will automatically bring the cargo into the highest demand in the destination city. But if you want to be more specific, you can choose your own cargo to be taken and the minimum or maximum amount taken from the station of origin.

Suppose a city has a high demand will be clothes, then the train will automatically use all of its cargo space for clothes. However, you can set your own maximum amount of cargo, such as clothes carried a maximum of only four cargoes, then the rest of the cargo space can be filled by other types of cargo is also a demand destination.

Each station can have up to 4 platform which can be bypassed by the train. But this train set will automatically select the nearest platform with a path from the station of origin. It is also often make the train journey to be hampered because some trains only using one platform only. Therefore, when determining the amount of cargo and carry, you can also specify the platform where the train will stop, so that all platforms can be filled without the train must wait for each other.

Competitors will always bother you

The threat comes not only from the destruction of the chariots or the handling of the car-train line is not good. In this game you can play with other AI for more challenging game.

The characters available in this game has the uniqueness of each, but they can also be your competition in the game later. The ability to build a rail line with a cheaper price, the ability to earn points quickly research, to discount prices to sabotage competitors.

Even if you own free will to win the game by way of a fair or a little nasty, competitors in this game appears quite vicious to make progress hampered in doing. They will continue to sabotage your train company, such as damage to the train, recruit crew we have done, and even sabotage of the industry that we have.

But you could also win the hearts (reply) to buy some of the shares belonging to them. If you already have a lot of money, you can buy all of their shares and get access to all rail networks, stations and industries they have.

You certainly do not need to worry about the things that have been described previously, because most of the things you need to know will be taught through the tutorial campaign. Now the author will give a few things you should know first so that you can consider to play this game or not.

Did not go to the next era

Which is unfortunate in this game is you can not go to the next era to access new technologies and new locomotives. When all the technology in the era you are playing already open all, then your duty is only to perform tasks given and be a winner among your competition.

Repeatedly impressed Games

Like games in general management, after knowing the appropriate formulas, the game is likely to be repeated. In the game itself you will probably do the same thing over and over again when it found a way to get the profit that much.

The graphics are good, but do not require the specifications that are too high

In the author's own PC is very rare FPS drop graphical though this game has to offer is very beautiful and exquisite atmosphere and rail transport industry. Here are the specs required to play Empire Railway pulled from Steam.

Conclusion

This game is of course suitable for you who are interested in playing games simulation, tycoon and management, such as Sim City game, Cities Skylines, Prison Architect, or other games that are focused on the game micromanaging. Although impressed complex, but all of these things become simple if you've studied.

Games like this at all times to be played, not keep playing games with violent content. Because in addition to providing entertainment, games like this are not directly provide educational benefits and positive.

Railway Empire you can play on PC via Steam and PS4 and Xbox via stores each. For the PC version you can get this game with a fairly cheap price.