For an Early Access game this is pretty impressive. 12 hours in at this point.
Content is a tad light as yet but there's quite an engaging campaign to play already and overall there's much to like about it. Look and feel is about the same as its competitors like Railway Empire.

Track laying is easy and effective although so far it lacks good control of track height, hopefully that will come later. That aside if you accept that it does some quite heavy civil engineering (which can make routes cost more) it works well. Double track is easy, stations can have up to 5 tracks each although so far I've not found the need for more than 2. The height issue aside it's easily as good as its competition in the sector. Junctions and signalling work nicely.

Trains are not artificially limited to length which is a bugbear of many other similar titles. Each engine has a maximum tonnage it can haul, and you can have as many cars as you like. You can even overload them if you wish although that's not efficient.

There's a research department you can install in your head office, which allows a variety of upgrades which increase performance, plus of course researching bigger and better engines. Top of the tree so far appears to be the GG1 electric. It'd be nice if they filled out the tree a little, the number of engines currently is a bit low.

In addition to these things, you also have other departments you can install:
* lobbying: Lets you influence cities to charge lower taxes or allow you to build buildings etc.
* geology: Lets you hire people to search for additional resources on the map
* finance: Lets you hire financial people for loans, bonds and the like but I don't know if that's working yet.

All in all it's well worth a look especially if you catch it on discount; even so it's cheaper than some of the rest at normal price. Only slight concern I have, based on their older version 1 game, is they might go over the top on DLCs. I've nothing against expanding with DLCs but the price must not get excessive. Some titles are fond of launching a bare-bones game and making a raft of expensive DLCs. I don't like buying DLC which costs as much or more than the base game. Time will tell on that one.

A good match-3 style game with plenty of variety and reasonably challenging played in timed mode.

From memory playing season match 1 and 2, 3 is definitely more polished and a better game over all.

The match 3s are interspersed with other "pick up the pieces" screens, and the story line links a couple hundred or more levels. There's also an arcade mode if you're bored with the story.

OK so it showed up at a decent discount and I was tempted. Since my initial review things do seem to have improved. There are still issues but overall it's not bad, and there's additional content for tolerable prices too.

Compared with RE1: multiple tracks work better, bridges will now allow more than 2 tracks (a big one). Tracklaying in general works a bit better although it can still infuriate you by refusing to do what you ask and not telling you why. Signalling is a bit hit and miss in manual mode, but automatic seems to cope fairly well. The trains and graphics are nice. Gameplay is pretty similar. The tech tree could do with some more loco choices/research paths, it's a little limited right now and there are only a few locos you end up using all the time. I've a feeling that RE1 had a bit more choice but I may be wrong.
[original review below]
Thought I would try this, as I liked RE1. Unfortunately, although some things have improved, some have gotten worse and to be frank, it's too expensive for what is essentially an update to RE1 with little overall improvement.

I didn't play it long as I didn't want to compromise the ability to refund it. But even in a brief play time, such annoyances as the much less useful signal placement mechanic already irritated me.

If it comes up on a serious discount I may revisit it: as I write it IS on sale: but still €40 which is, to my view, not worth it for the minimal advantages over RE1.

Ages ago there was a cool little game called Pontifex. This is an update of the same idea, using different materials to build bridges with varying difficulty. It's nicely enough done although compared with versions 1 and 2, I don't like that it seems to have lost the visual stress indication when running the simulation. If it's not lost, I can't see how to turn it back on.

On the subject of versions 1 and 2, I got them all 3 in a decently discounted bundle: I suspect I'd be a good deal less keen on version 3 if I'd paid full price for the others. Version 2 seems a bit nicer than version 1 and version 3 works well enough and seems to have some more stuff like weekly challenges. But really, there's not enough difference to justify 3 versions. This is the Dovetail Games marketing model where you buy the same game repeatedly and it doesn't do the devs/publisher much credit in my opinion. If what you've written is an update, then it should be sold as such not a whole new game.

That said it's engaging and fun and I will likely keep it. For me, it's something to get when it's on sale, though. Especially if you already have either of the earlier versions.

A nice industry-maker. Many products to balance and get producing and sneaky things like illness eating all your workers.

Lots of customisation, nice and easy on low settings to get you into it. The game continues to improve since I got it, and with more promised. Too often a promising early-release thing gets abandoned by the developer but so far that hasn't happened here. Still has some issues but for me at least now runs smoothly without errors. Looking forward to new stuff when it arrives.

If you liked such things as Factorio, you'll probably like this. It doesn't have railways but it does have multi-level conveyors, you can have up to 4 layers stacked on top of eachother, for example. If you're keen you can dig trenches and bury pipes underground, too :)

All in all plenty to get your teeth into including, in the later game, managing pollution to keep your workers healthy, and other such tweaks.

One of the best in the Anno collection, although I do also like 2205. The campaign is decently challenging even on normal mode (and if you find it too easy you can turn up the difficulty).

Lots of DLC if you want it, but works without that if you don't. Would definitely recommend Docklands though.

Also has a creative/artistic mode if you just want to build pretty cities and not worry about the whole money and gameplay thing.