More & More Pressure To BUY Gems – Train Station 2: Steam Empire Review

Game starts out fun, but as you progress you are under more and more pressure to Buy Gems with In-App Purchases. Progress continues to slow as jobs take longer and longer to complete, Unless You Buy & Spend Gems. Perfect example of the addiction feedback loop in play. Play something amazing like Northgard which requires No internet or purchases to satisfy your building and strategy thirst. Some other examples of deliberate abuse in this game are: “Free” parts crates will never produce anything but junk parts, and the base train box returns numerous duplicates of the base garbage trains. You will be teased with a couple of initial rare and epic wins, but they stop shortly after. We installed this game on three devices and this behavior was identical! This train has left the station permanently! Edit: Thanks to the devs for your response. If you don’t mind playing this game by queuing a few jobs and setting it aside for an hour before playing again, then they are correct, it is free and you won’t have to buy anything. When I play a game I plan to be engaged by it without interruption for the duration of my available time. Spending $50 for a game is fine, I do not expect that experience for free.
Review by X E Ryder on Train Station 2: Steam Empire.