Wanted to pop in here to respond to this recommendation.
I have a love-hate relationship with traffic management games. I often think I’ll love them but I often end up hating them.
Sweet Transit intrigued me - I’ve never been able to develop a shred of interest in Factorio, and in spite of Sweet Transit being described as “the trains from Factorio” I was still drawn to it.To check out Sweet Transit I went to my normal go-to YouTubers (including Katherine of Sky, who is as bit of a Factorio fangirl as you’ll find) and saw her having issue after issue - not just with the game, but seemingly fighting the UI, complaining about a multitude of things while playing - pretty out of character for her. Her difficulties led me to believe Sweet Transit was one of those games that was perhaps a bit interesting but not reallly my cup of tea. So I held off buying it.
However, a week ago I stumbled across adekyn’s Youtube videos of Sweet Transit. I’ve found those videos by far the best description of how to approach and play the game. As I watched more of his videos, the game finally clicked for me - not only did I understand it better, but I developed a new apprecation for the design of the game. Initially I felt the game was a big sparse but now it seems to me that it simply ramps up the complexity little by little until you look back that what you’ve been doing and say ‘wow, I did all that?’ Which feels like a pretty solid design.
It’s not a perfect game by any stretch of the imagination but it’s engaged me in a way that many other recent builder type games haven’t.
Adekyn’s videos do a very good job of introducing you to and expanding upon the game. I’d never heard of the guy before but I highly recommend the Sweet Transit videos if you’re interested in the game. So thanks, @Ginger_Yellow for the rec!
The very first video starts off talking about signals. The designers have done a lot of work on signals over the years so they are really easy to implement now. I “assume” that is what you mean by rail switching?
From the Manor Lords discord (cross posted to Indy games and Manor Lords threads)
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Manor Lords city-building demo is now out on Steam.
Download it here:
Apologies for the bugs - it’s still a work in progress, but hope you’ll have some fun nonetheless. After playing check out the demo channels like <#1025837726987210872>
I’ve watched some streams and Manor Lords is gorgeous… I’m really excited to give it a go when it is released. I am a little tired of the European biomes and could do for some more diversity in the environments - but Manor Lords looks like a real winner.