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Railway Empire 2
In Railway Empire 2, grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors as you connect cities and companies with an ever-expanding network of rail lines, bridges, and tunnels. Railway Empire 2 features bigger, more detailed and lively maps than ever before. The whole of the US and continental Europe ar...
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- Released
- May 24, 2023
- Developer
- Gaming Minds Studios
- Publisher
- Kalypso Media
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Railway Empire 2 Reviews
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Much like the evolution of trains in Railway Empire 2’s history-spanning campaign, the game itself has learned lessons from the original and forged ahead with a stronger outing all around. While it has a compelling competitive edge to it, the game is best when things are serene.
Railway Empire 2 is a great game for fans of simulators and builders. It tries to find the middle ground between being accessible and challenging, with the chance of losing the more advanced players in the process. The developers can cherish what they’ve created. But could expand upon the ideas some more for the next iteration. As I’m sure plenty of players would love to go deeper into the world of building a railway empire.
One of my favourite games in recent years has returned but does Railway Empire 2 live up to the original? Let's head to the tracks.
Sporting various improvements over its predecessor means Railway Empire 2 is a marginally more approachable game, but there remains a barrier of entry that may prove a little too high for some. All aboard, then? Maybe not, but we’d recommend at least giving it a go.
Railway Empire 2 puts you in the hat of an entrepreneur in the early 1800's and tasks you with turning your steam trains into the workhorse of the economy and
Overall, unless an update comes out to fix the glitches, either go buy the game on another platform or just go back to playing the original Railway Empire on Switch. With graphics the way they are, it probably is not worth the frustration of trying to get it to work. It is a shame as I see that they put work into improving the track laying system, but it just doesn’t look like they put work into the Switch port.