Love live the Pey Wet Express
Scout Reportis an irregular series of indie game recommendations from Sin Vega, offered first to RPS supporters.
The idea is brilliant. The whole damn world is your canvas, stripped of existing trains and activity. Instead, there is potential, and obstacles. The potential is all those people living pointless, train-free lives.
The obstacles are roads, mountains, and bodies of water. Wildlife and architects are out of luck though. You can build stations and depots almost anywhere, and route tracks through space and buildings without a care besides costs, presumably in bribes. I have ruined villages, blotted landscapes, and destroyed almost as many schools as neoliberalism. But you must steer those tracks over roads in ways that work.
Some crossings are assumed as part of the cost, but there are limits. A train might not run directly over a motorway or entire city centre. But a snaking path that switches to a tramline, then a viaduct over the river, then back? That could work. And you can link it up to the station you built directly outside your girlfriend’s house, so she can leave for work 80 minutes later, and visit the sea at the weekend. Let’s build one outside Lidl, too, and set up a completely free line just for her. She deserves it. It will even name the station over a local landmark.
