One thing Random is made up of former SUPERHOT builders, however the studio’s debut recreation could not be extra totally different. Toy Trains is a cute, enjoyable recreation that allows you to relive the easy enjoyable present in constructing mannequin practice tracks, and it does so fairly efficiently.
A practice set in a dusty attic simply so occurs to be residence to a tiny populace referred to as Railies. These puny folks want your assist to make tracks that’ll lead trains from mines and woodcutters to building websites, constructing cute institutions like a film theatre and an influence plant. Gameplay is tremendous intuitive; utilizing the triggers on PSVR2’s Sense controllers, you pluck the required observe items, trains, and wagons from the consumer handbook and plonk them onto the board in entrance of you. It is satisfyingly tactile.
The topography of every panorama will dictate how and the place you may construct your tracks, however there is no one proper reply — so long as your routes meet the necessities, you will progress by a stage. With no cut-off dates or scores to fret about both, Toy Trains makes for a relaxed, playful time. The presentation aids this too, with a beautiful artwork type that is simple to learn and nice music all through.
Every stage introduces new parts, resembling bridges to cross water or slopes so your trains can transfer vertically. When you attain the tenth and last stage, you’ll create some pretty complicated tracks if you want. Upon beating the sport and concluding the covert however candy story, you are free to play every stage once more, however there’s little else to see and do right here.
It is on the brief facet, which is not actually an issue, however particularly by way of choices it is fairly barebones. The truth is, there aren’t any actual settings to talk of, not even to regulate in-game quantity or change peak. Luckily, this can be a stationary recreation with minimal controls to fret about, so it arguably would not want plenty of choices — however some primary stuff is lacking.
All advised, although, Toy Trains delivers a satisfying expertise that’ll attraction to gamers of all ages. In case you’re after a nostalgic and enjoyable VR title, you would do far worse than choo-choo-choose this nice little recreation.