Station Manager Reviews

Best Sim Game

A_Mod

This game has it all. A brand new User interface and infinite hours of fun. Thank You KAIROSOFT! Good sim for the fans. Many upstages and levels to enjoy.

Important Gameplay Notice: Line up the pathways of stacked floors! After deciding on an orientation you will not be able to change it! If the floors are not lined up you will be unable to place stairways connecting those two floors for the entire game! The game does not warn you of this ahead of time! While I wasn't initially drawn to the 'train' theme, compared to the many other Kairosoft game's I've played, this game tops them with it's slow steady pacing and novel gameplay elements! The tutorial is also fantastically thorough and the game plays like a more relaxed Biz Town Deluxe i.e. there's no need to be constantly on edge about going bankrupt and you can manage multiple stations. The gameplay is perfect! However, there are no save slots; you can only have one game. There is no method to clear save data from within the app either. Highly recommended for new fans and old fans of Kairosoft style games! This one has really set itself a part in a positive way! The writing is also quite clever and humorous this time around! A lot of silly guest references to other Kairosoft titles are made!

Worst kairosoft game!

P!nkRainbowz

I have played all of the kairosoft games and his one is the worst. You hardly earn any money from the train station and all your money comes from little achievements like violins g a new facility. But at some point you stop having enough new kings to build to support your station, and then you realize that your whole station only makes 10 friggin dollars a day. Apparently patrons ride free and your stores only pay you a few dollars in rent. This is the only kairosoft game I've ever played that intended you to keep the game running for 24/7 so you can slowly keep making small amounts of money!! Ridiculous. Do not waste your money on this game. Kairosoft, get your act together...

Starts fun... then turns into nothing

Quintuplin

So my first station was classic kairosoft fun for the first few hours building a station, researching upgrades, managing different resources and balancing which shops to put where to optimize space usage and get a good balance of stats to make a station number 1! And there were so many more stations to promise more replayability than previous kairosoft games as well! But then, I finished my first station. Unlocked everything, optimized layout, did everything there was to be done and... the station was ranked 5. At year 8. Not too much of a time investment, but not insignificant. The only problem was... there was nothing left to do to make my station better. So, literally, I had to wait another 6 in-game years, as my stores and customers passively levelled up enough to complete the level. During this time a ridiculous amount of resources piled up, but there was no longer anything to spend them on, or anything left to even research after a few years, so all there was to do is watch and wait. and tap a window every couple minutes. and wait again. Finally my station reaches #1! So I move on to the second station. I had enough money to instantly max build my station, put every facility exactly where I wanted it, items to 3-star all the tenants, hired the best researchers, build perfect trains, and did all the investments possible... and then, wait. ranking comes in: 6'th place another year. ranking comes in: 5th place another year, ranking comes in: 5th place but a higher score by now I'm at year 30, and the game has literally devolved into a waiting experience. I like most of most kairosoft games, but this one, while almost perfect in the early game experience, really shows it's problems hard when you try to actually complete it.

Good, don't activate adds for coins

Pric3d

So far this has been a regular kairosoft game, a fun little game to kill time but now I am considering getting a refund. There is an option to get in-game coins by allowing adds for 24 hours, figured I would do it and just live with the adds for a day. What they don't tell you is that 24 hours is in game open time. Counter doesn't go down if app is open in the background, now game always does a hard start to make me watch an ad during the load screen, and it will also randomly show you an add even if you don't click on anything to activate them. Kairosoft better fix this soon as I believe this setup and poor coding is against apple's TOS.

Great

i_iPhone

For those who feels the game is too slow, I highly suggest you to play more. After year 5, you will find a lot of interesting things.

Ugh

Theredsandjames

For the first year or so the game is a painful grind then it gets slightly better most of the game isn't taught to you so you have to figure out how it works and I made one mistake placing a floor instead of a platform and it ruined my game there are no different save files only one and you can't change the platform so that entire area is now useless

Half baked

338113248

I loved Kairosoft games from a few years ago so I was excited to come across this new one. The reviews made me question it but I figured I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and try it. Waste of $6. I keep going back to it hoping I'll enjoy it more but there's just not much game to play. It seems like they had a bunch of ideas but didn't implement any of them well. It's also hard to understand in many ways and windows stay on the screen telling you what to do even when you can't do the thing it wants you to do. Buying trains makes little difference and expanding, if done wrong, leaves you with half your station just useless. For one of the most expensive games I've ever purchased, this was also one of the most disappointing. I wish I could get a refund.

Update screen issue

Vowelcat

The update changed the screen size making it so that iOS top panel obscures the in game text. The battery icon covers the number that shows how much money you have which is rather annoying...

Wasted potential

TheColdOne

Good idea, executed horribly. It moves way too slow, and many aspects just feel broken. Easily one of their worst games.

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