Transport Fever 2 4+

This is a fantastic and frankly underrated game! The details are almost unreal. The models are really fine, the textures and rendering engine seem to work well with my iMac 2019, and the addition of Mods makes it even more interesting. I'm a city planner by education so I enjoy the game in sandbox mode where I plan towns and traffic systems for hours of entertainment.

This game is a case study in non-intuitive design. It's a good game that's hampered by poorly-thought-out design choices. Most of these poor choices you would have to play the game to understand—over ten hours of game time in, I'm still trying to figure out how to design train tracks so that multiple train lines can use the same tracks—but for an easy-to-explain example of their user-unfriendly thought processes, there is no global music control. If you don't like music with your games, you have to turn it off not only every single time you start the game, but every single time you reach a major checkpoint in a scenario.

Gameplay, as I mentioned, has a large number of similar 'What were they thinking?' choices. However, the game itself is fairly nice. Once you eventually learn how it works.

I have spent untold hours addicted to this game. I can't get enough and I love the graphics and being able to ride in the vehicles. I am still waiting for the Spring Update to release here on the Mac Store. What is taking so long Apple? The update dropped back on May 10, 2022. Steam released the update the same day.