This is a very cute and cosy game. I love all of the resident's personalities. They all feel so genuine.
The gameplay loop is pretty repetitive, but I'm finding the world so relaxing and carefree that it isn't really an issue. I can progress quests at my own pace which further adds to the relaxing nature.

So far there's so many things to do, it's hard to get bored when it comes to tasks. You have the main quests, side quests for the residents, package deliveries, collecting resources, and then there's the recycling mechanic (I'm always walking around with the garbage bag lol.)
I wish the inventory size was a few slots bigger though because I tend to find myself doing several things at once and I just don't have the space to hold everything at times :(

The train is so cool though. It bugs me that the coal car is at the back of the train, but I get it for gameplay reasons. Sometimes I wish there was more to do on the train other than shovelling coal. Giving food and drinks to the passengers is cute initially, but it does end up feeling like a waiting game until they request it.

The Steam Deck performance isn't amazing. There's times when it can barely maintain 30fps on the low graphics settings. That said it's still very enjoyable.

Overall, I do recommend this game. It's just way too chill and carefree to not enjoy it!

This is one of those games where you feel like there should be a option between thumbs up and down but sadly there isn't and I have to thumb down.

This game in its current state feels very early access and bare bones. A lot of the quests are bugged the deeper you get into the game, Some quests fail to spawn at all and some just glitch out to the point where you wonder why you even have a train.

Passengers are lifeless and will maybe ask for a snack, once. They don't do anything else beyond that. Why give me a button to wave at them if they don't react to it at all? The game is meant to be relaxing but also gives you the most frustrating don't leave me alone for 3 seconds coal to engine mini-game that I REALLY hope we can upgrade the engine at somepoint and make the sweetspot to gain speed bigger.

Passengers don't react to your train outside of "Wow a train, we haven't seen once of those in forever despite most of the railway being in pristine maintenance condition!" and that's the other thing... The story makes 0 sense and so don't a lot of the quests.

For example there's a quest where you have to feed a sprite some coal, now even ignoring the infinite supply of coal your train has, literally spitting distance away from the sprite is a WAGON FULL OF COAL! Why don't they just feed them that coal rather than send me on a fetch quest for almost an hour to fix a broken relationship over telephone poles only to tell me "Lol Coal don't work"

At the current price, I can't in good consience reccommend.

Played and Beat the whole game. 10/10 Loved it. I hope they make more games (or dlc) like this as its super Under rated and i really loved ever second of it