Phil the Conquistadork | Railway Empire | Review | Trains, Tycoons, and Talkative Competition @ElConquistadork | Uploaded January 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Disclosure: This video is based on complimentary code that I received from the publisher.
I spend a lot of time playing empire builder games. Your Civilizations, your Banisheds, these have always been the perfect combination of grand strategy and comfort gaming for me. I can get really in depth and micro manage the hell out of my city, or I can lay back and hit the end turn button over and over. So it’s funny to me that I never spent quite as much time on tycoon-style games. After all, they’re generally just a more specialized version of a 4X. Find your niche, and take over the world with it: that sort of thing.
Fortunately, this week I got my chance to sink my teeth into one of the latest Tycoon games: Railway Empire. Developed by Gaming Minds Studios and published by Kalypso, the people who brought you the Tropico series, Railway Empire is pretty much what you’d expect from a take on the Railroad Tycoon style of game. You set up trade routes, you compete with other tycoons, you research newer and better technologies, and slowly build your company into an empire through railcars full of corn, lumber, beef, and occasionally people.
At first I was a little skeptical of Railway Empire. Like I mentioned before, this is the sort of tycoon game that’s pretty specialized, and requires an attention to details that I wouldn’t have necessarily thought about. Specializing the right train for the right track, for example: some trains are better at traversing over higher inclines than others, and if you’re building a track from Baltimore to Pittsburgh, you’re definitely going to run into that. So researching and assigning the right train for that situation is vital. And at first that level of detail might be off-putting if all you’re expecting is to connect point A to point B through coal powered tenacity. But when you take the time to pay attention to specifics and learn what Railway Empire is all about, the results can be quite gratifying. You get an efficient series of routes going, and it can be sort of hypnotizing to watch the trains come and go.
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What you will not get at ElConquistadork: ugliness (the host's face notwithstanding), drama (the host's bank account notwithstanding), or cat videos.
...Huh? He's put a cat in a few of his videos already? Shit.
......Okay, maybe you'll get a few cat videos.
"Sneak A Little Drinky" written and performed by The Butterscotch Bros: Carlos Avendano and Dan Ross.
Disclosure: This video is based on complimentary code that I received from the publisher.
I spend a lot of time playing empire builder games. Your Civilizations, your Banisheds, these have always been the perfect combination of grand strategy and comfort gaming for me. I can get really in depth and micro manage the hell out of my city, or I can lay back and hit the end turn button over and over. So it’s funny to me that I never spent quite as much time on tycoon-style games. After all, they’re generally just a more specialized version of a 4X. Find your niche, and take over the world with it: that sort of thing.
Fortunately, this week I got my chance to sink my teeth into one of the latest Tycoon games: Railway Empire. Developed by Gaming Minds Studios and published by Kalypso, the people who brought you the Tropico series, Railway Empire is pretty much what you’d expect from a take on the Railroad Tycoon style of game. You set up trade routes, you compete with other tycoons, you research newer and better technologies, and slowly build your company into an empire through railcars full of corn, lumber, beef, and occasionally people.
At first I was a little skeptical of Railway Empire. Like I mentioned before, this is the sort of tycoon game that’s pretty specialized, and requires an attention to details that I wouldn’t have necessarily thought about. Specializing the right train for the right track, for example: some trains are better at traversing over higher inclines than others, and if you’re building a track from Baltimore to Pittsburgh, you’re definitely going to run into that. So researching and assigning the right train for that situation is vital. And at first that level of detail might be off-putting if all you’re expecting is to connect point A to point B through coal powered tenacity. But when you take the time to pay attention to specifics and learn what Railway Empire is all about, the results can be quite gratifying. You get an efficient series of routes going, and it can be sort of hypnotizing to watch the trains come and go.
Feel free to subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c...
Or follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/ElConquistadork
Or like me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Phil-K...
Here's what you're going to get at ElConquistadork:
Thought-provoking geek commentary that smells vaguely of gin and smoke. Game reviews and Let's Plays that cover everything from the super indie to the AAA to the "made around 700 years ago" category.
Phil The Conquistadork also maintains a healthy love to interacting with his audiences when they aren't assholes (and sometimes when they are).
What you will not get at ElConquistadork: ugliness (the host's face notwithstanding), drama (the host's bank account notwithstanding), or cat videos.
...Huh? He's put a cat in a few of his videos already? Shit.
......Okay, maybe you'll get a few cat videos.
"Sneak A Little Drinky" written and performed by The Butterscotch Bros: Carlos Avendano and Dan Ross.
