Bounty Train
Be prepared to conquer the Wild West on rails! Mount and design your very own train with plenty of detailed equipment, hire a loyal, bold and selfless crew and travel through the dangerous Wild West. Find your way by cleverly using your resources and by shipping goods and passengers. Solve problems your own way, either through diplomacy, violence or bribery. Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails. Fulfill surprising quests and face notorious bandits, vengeful Natives and even more enemies. You can only achieve this journey of your life, if you pay attention to all these thrilling factors. Control true to original locomotives, expand and design them in various ways. Assort an efficient crew and overcome the challenges of North America together.
Game Discussion
Steam User 1
A fun game, though, there are some things that could be different, example, why can't you buy a Henry rifle
Steam User 0
It's a great game for the price, and, frankly, is the only game that I not only did not "Ignore" from the studio, but have actually bought and love.
That is a real endorsement.
Steam User 0
Hidden gem. Nice challenge balancing making money, completing jobs on time, keeping the train up to date (including weapons!), having the right crew, etc. I LOVE it (especially when I set combat to easy; THAT is the most annoying aspect to the game), and to me it strikes the right chord of being interesting and fun, with enough variables to get you involved but not SO much you're mind-numbingly managing minutiae. (I actually wish I could find more games that strikes this right balance. Their new game, Railroad Corporation, fumbles it somewhat to me.)
For the current price of one whole US dollar I'd say it's DEFINITELY a great bang for your buck.
Steam User 0
This is a game short for money, and you will be very busy making it at least in the beginning few hours. Aborigine, bandits, the private investigator and main quests ask you for money. Contracts penalize you for money if you fail. And you will need money after encountering the train damaged issues now and then.....
These features make the money significant in this game, so making money becomes me feel great. Additionally, the time sensitive design is gutsy, because many players don't like it. But this game doesn't serve us as the game has to babysit its customers. The game is somewhat intense and you need to schedule your time and routes carefully. And because of this, it adds some immersive feeling in this Civil War experience. And guess what? Because of this game I understand many US cities for their geographic positions, industries and significance in Civil War.
It's very hard to decide to give this game a thumb up or down when I was not familiar with all mechanisms, because this game has some different UI style than other games, and bugs. As I get familiar with all UI and came up with all solutions for bugs, all left is pleasant experience.
Optimization Bug: As the game progress, you will encounter the lag whenever you click something.
Solution: dump all finished (and failed) quests.
UI difficulty: How to load crew members and passengers once you unloaded them?
Solution: left click one of them and right click position you want to load to.
Steam User 0
Really good game. Trade between cities and manage multiple factions while accumulating shares in your family's railroad. The mini-games where you evade bandits and indians are good as well. I like trading games like port royale etc....this is an excellent game within that same genre. Highly recommend. Don't be put off in the first hour of play. The game looks deceptively simple but its actually quite deep and a lot of fun.
Steam User 0
It has some glitches and bugs, but I enjoy it. I'm normally not a fan of trading games, but this one has renewed my interest.
Moving from place to place, buying and selling, all the while keeping up with the main goal. All through a historical lens of the industrial age. Start small and work your way up. Being able to smuggle, trade , and transport. It would be kind of cool if your train could get a lot longer, but simplicity is key. I'm not the biggest fan of the combat, nor the combat system, but I've seen worse.
Most trading games involve being on the seas. Granted it was more historically accurate being a merchant ship, but trains are seriously underappreciated.
Enjoyable, addictive, and historical.
Steam User 2
Just found this game recently and I'm very impressed, especially since it only cost 99 cents! I would call it Port Royale meets Railroad Tycoon. It certainly doesn't have the depth of those two games but it does have a lot of good elements from both and a campaign that walks you through how to get started. It still took me like 10 restarts to get everything working correctly, though, particularly since it overwrites the autosave every time you enter a city; if you screwed something up and didn't do a manual save your stuck.
I feel the market isn't working completely correctly: some goods weigh a lot less and are worth a lot less and other games would let you fit more on the train to offset the lower profit. In Bounty Train, no matter what it weighs, each unit of a good takes up one slot on the train. So even if the good is selling at more than double its cost it's more profitable to get less units of expensive, heavier goods that sell for a smaller percentage relative to it's cost. This is mitigated though, by requests for those goods that pay quite well
A couple of things Bounty Train is missing that would've made it even better: ability to buy/add businesses in town (though other reviews hint at something like this already in the game I haven't seen it yet), ability to establish an office (and perhaps assign personnel) in cities that allow you to see the requests in a city without having to actually go there, more passengers, minimap, pvp or pve,
All that being said, there is a ton of good things going on here and for the price you can't beat it!