One Developer Creates the Best Train Sim Ever Made with Running Train
Train SIM Created by Just One Person Is Being Called the Best Ever Made
I spent hours obsessively matching the hyper-realistic lines of Running Train to the real world, only to discover it is a fictional masterpiece. Created by a single developer, Novatetsu Games, this simulation offers 42 routes with incredible environmental details like logically placed powerlines and dynamic weather. While you can master the driving mechanics, I found the most joy simply letting the train run itself while exploring the stunning, hand-crafted Japanese countryside from a free camera.
Hands down the most beautiful train sim that has been released on the market thus far. The modeling is top tier. The environment details, the clouds, the lighting, the weather effects all of it is just absolutely insane!
- culi
The dev is a person from Indonesia (Rizky Nova) who's device has 16GB of ram.
Being able to use the Unreal Engine for free to develop this is awesome. This couldn't have happened 10 years ago.
- f3408fh
I always wonder how a solo developer can source high quality assets like these, plus develop a full game with them. In this case did the dev create the assets or did they purchase them from a freelancer? How much would purchasing this many assets cost?
- dash2
> including support for the Zuiki MASCON, a bespoke peripheral for train driving sims.
This just makes me feel so glad to be alive today!
- whywhywhywhy
Game looks amazing from a solo dev but this article is terrible, like the journo didn't even play the game they just watched the game.
- Tade0
In my region of the world this title (and also the title of being "the worst ever made") was reserved for the unnecessarily detailed electric locomotive simulator MaSzyna:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1033030/MaSzyna/
Turns out that such a vehicle, even though simple in principle, has quite the startup procedure and a layman would have trouble making it go.
- notjustanymike
I own it and played it. It's good, very pretty, but highly repetitive. It's one 40km track, two trains, and most of the scenery is the same. It is one step above a Unreal Engine tech demo (e.g. the matrix demo from a few years back).
For one person it's impressive, but it won't knock the major players down any time soon.
- arjie
This is a 1 person job?! It looks practically photorealistic. That's absolutely wild.
- zftnb666
One person made the best train sim. Meanwhile AAA studios need 400 people to make the same game twice.
- derdi
The game in question is https://store.steampowered.com/app/4630570/RUNNING_TRAIN/
- mlok
I like this one, too : https://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip/