Starts fun... then turns into nothing – Station Manager Review

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.
Review by Quintuplin on Station Manager.