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Train Station Renovation

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Welcome to an old, ruined train station. A place that will give you a lot of fun!

In Train Station Renovation you play as a renovation company specialised in restoring railway stations. The game is set in abandoned and destroyed train stations, you will start with small rural ones to ease in and eventually be challenged with sprawling train stations in metropolitan areas. The game is divided into 10 maps (stations) which gradually teach you new mechanics and help you manage different working environments. Each station needs to be cleaned, fixed and decorated with items and equipment to bring it back to life.

Choose how hard you want to work.
The level of difficulty depends on the player's commitment. The game can be very demanding if you decide to complete each stage one hundred percent but it also can be perfect for beginners if you just want to relax while renovating and simply have a good time. In such a case, you only need to complete half the planned tasks to advance to the next stage.

Quick and easy access to equipment is the key to success.
There are many tools and options for repairing and decorating the station. Work with basic items such as paint rollers, spray cans, crowbars and repair wrenches or use your in-game tablet to order new materials and items. Some stations will even allow you to repair and renovate the old trains. This means you will be able to take care of the technical condition of those vehicles yourself.

Specializations development tree
An aesthetic development character tree t is available. You will speed up your work time at individual stages and elements of the game by upgrading your skills. You will also get new equipment or unlock new options while renovating. If you happen to enjoy some renovation activities more than others, you will be able to upgrade them during your playthrough.

Renovate and decorate train stations and trains.
Detailed and complex 3D models of railway stations allow you to renovate them - from cleaning, painting and to replacing decorations and mechanical elements.

The economy is very important
A complex economy aspect has been added to the game to increase realism. In addition to money needed to buy new items and repair materials, you can also benefit by segregating waste or completing additional tasks.

Build your own station.
Thanks to the station decoration system, you will be able to create the internal and external appearance of various facilities yourself. You can add benches, vending machines, kiosks, and other items as needed, and place them wherever you want. Thanks to this function, you will quickly turn a dump into a great looking ready for business train station.

The possibility of expanding the game.
The game will be supported after launch, with patches and new official content released addressing needs that the community puts forward. The game will be open for user submitted mods.

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Average score: 66% (based on 12 ratings)

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Average score: 2.0 out of 5 (based on 1 ratings)

Relaxing, but boring

The Good
Full disclosure: this review is based on four hours of play and 5 of 15 levels beaten (100% each).

This is a very relaxing game. You spend your time cleaning up train stations: collecting litter, removing graffiti and busted objects, etc. I found it very satisfying to see how my hard work made the stations a nicer place.

The Bad
Unfortunately, soon the biggest shortcoming of the game becomes obvious: the train stations become bigger, but your work does not change and the game becomes repetitive fast.

But this does not hurt the relaxing atmosphere much; the problem are the renovation objectives. Besides cleaning up, you also have to place a number of objects (e.g. chairs, tables, decoration) in the rooms and on the platforms. While some items have enough variation (many tables, chairs and garbage bins are available), there are also many essential objects missing, for example no toilet roll holders or interesting decoration items. This means that in the end all rooms look essentially the same and can't be decorated realistically. What annoyed me most is that the developers took the time to add stupid items like Christmas decoration which should have been spent on other objects.

The second problem is that placing objects does not work well, for example you can't really see the alignment of bigger objects beforehand. It is also unimportant if the object placement makes sense: the game only counts if you used the required number of items from a certain category.

I also missed the option to renovate the outside of the train stations. When dealing with overgrown platforms, you can pick up some predefined clumps of grass, but in the end it will be still overgrown.

The Bottom Line
I had my fun for three hours, but then the repetition and the shortcomings of the renovation aspect kicked in and I became bored fast. If you, like me, received the game as part of a Humble Choice bundle, you probably should give it a chance and relax a bit. But I would advise against purchasing it separately.

Windows · by Patrick Bregger (298111) · 2021

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Game added July 30, 2020. Last modified February 20, 2024.