Railway Empire 2 Review (brutaxia)
EDIT 6: 0/10
EDIT 5: because i payed for this garbage, i am continually trying to figure out how the playtesters that dont even exist played this game and passed QA.... Latest is scenario in UK where you have to get from north UK to south in 45 days round trip, so I removed everything and placed just the shortest track with the fastest train and IT STILL FAILED!!! PLAY YOUR GAME BEFORE YOU RELEASE!!!! IT IS SO OBVIOUS WHY THIS GAME HAS A MIXED REVIEW... ALL of the positive reviews Are obviously fake. This was vibe coded by putting RE1 into an ai tool and said add 1 feature and break everything else.
EDIT 4: the only thing that COULD fix this game is mods which the DEVS DO NOT ALLOW for some unknown reason. This is the worst most buggy game I have ever played!
EDIT 3: the only way this game has any positive reviews is they must not be using any warehouses. They only work when they fricken want to... why release a sequel to RE1 which was mostly good and the ONLY changes is to make warehouses almost never work and trains ON a SINGLE TRACK WITH NO OTHER TRAFFIC WAIT FOR NON_EXISTENT trains on the same track supposedly. NO PLAY TESTING COULD HAVE EVER BEEN DONE ON THIS GAME.... worse then the original in EVERY. F'N WAY!!!
EDIT 2: I am convinced that while they made track building slightly better once you learn it, the bugs with warehouses not taking any goods when 3 cities need them, along with trains literally being the ONLY TRAIN ON THE F*N TRACK saying "waiting for a free track", grrrrrrrrrr, DID ANYONE PLAY TEST THIS F*N GAME. Worse in every way than the original with the exception of QOL for track building which also glitches about 20% of the time. And don't get me started on making a route the game says is valid and gives you the build button, then charges you for a 100K route that INSTANTLY DISAPPEARS!!!! I paid good money for this so i keep trying but...
IT IS SOOOOOOO CLEAR, that they ONLY tested what was in the tutorials and if you have ANY creativity WHATSOEVER, the game will bug out constantly... If you choose to try to play differently than what the devs intended YOU ARE RIGHTLY SCREWED!!!! AVOID!!!
EDIT: after about a month or so of game time, the warehouse issue resolved itself. However, other major issues still happen. Trains on even a single 2 line paired track with only 2 trains, work fine for hours and then mysteriously get stuck for no reason. Highly annoying. Only fix is to sell the 2 trains and set them back up again.
So silly. not sure this game was play tested at all.
So as an RE1 player, this game so far is worse in every conceivable way.
The biggest issue is the transfer of goods. It does not work once you are out of the tutorial especially with warehouses. I have a warehouse I am sending 5 different goods to, in desperately high demand to cities connected to the warehouse and EVERY SINGLE TRAIN runs with no goods. This game is SERIOUSLY BROKEN.
Wait for patches if you ever thought of using warehouses at all. Outside of the tutorial they DO NOT work at ALL.
0/10 Will update if they ever fix the numerous bugs