“At time of writing, I remain mostly baffled by this game, and consequently am a fan of it,” Alice said in April. We then sent Steve Hogarty in with a brush for an early access review and he was weirdly charmed too, coming away calling it “a tempting trapdoor for a tired mind, a long slide into the comforting numbness of routine, a tiny sample of the void served to you on a cocktail stick by a smiling lady at the end of a supermarket aisle.” The launch update has brought five new maps, giving us jobs at a swampy station, an alpine cable car terminal, a tunnel in a forest, a train yard, and an Underground station. It also adds the ability to paint trains as well as station floors and ceilings, new cheevos, and other bits. No full patch notes yet, though. Train Station Renovation is out now on Steam, with a 20% launch discount bringing it down to £9.11/€9.99/$11.99. You can find a demo over there too. The store page does say they plan to support it with patches, new content, and mod support after launch. It’s made by Live Motion Games and, like so many other oddball ‘simulator’ games these days, published by PlayWay. Everything from Autopsy Simulator to Chernobyl Liquidators Simulator, PlayWay are on it.
