Trailmakers

great game but dlcs should be cheaper. im not paying £10 for some weapons and aerodyanmic blocks that should just be apart the game for free (bought the dlc btw now and its still not worth £10).

build hundreds of different unique aircraft that each accel at their special purposes, proceed to get dogged on by an 8 year old with a plane with 500 guns that barely flies

There's some good and bad things about this game, but I enjoyed it more than I dislike it.

pros:
-The game is quite beginner friendly, while still able to have pros to build amazing creations. You can easily build a simple buggy or spend much more time on an advanced hovercraft.
-It offers a wide range of freedom on the creations you can make. Of course, it IS a sandbox game, so players have to come up with things to do by themselves without objectives from the game (unless you're playing campaign).
-The somewhat realistic physics (ie, aerodynamic, drag...) can allow players to build real life vehicles more closely.
-It have decent PVP features, where you can fight with planes, helicopters, tanks, boats, submarines... However, I recommend doing so against your friends, and not random players, since it's hard to establish rules and restrictions on the type of fight you want to do.

cons:
-Although I think the base game is good, I do not recommend MOST of the DLCs, as I think they are not worth the price.
-There are some bugs that are annoying and sometimes frustrating to deal with, but at least they aren't hard to solve.
-It is not the most well optimized game, so there're a little bit of a performance issue (but I got a pretty good computer, might be a problem for other people).

Is the game fun? Yes. Do I want more people to play it? Yes.

Do I think it deserves a positive review? meh, not really?

Sure the game is fun and enjoyable, and there's no singular thing wrong with it to ruin the experience, but there are *a lot* of small and/or minor things which all add up into a lack of polish.

Most of these things aren't gameplay blockers or major annoyances, so I still can recommend it, but there are just *so many* small things adding up that I never had a chance to forget about the problems, such as:

- Unexplained deaths and/or vehicle damage: for the most part the game is quite forgiving and you don't often take 'accidental' damage, but when you do it is always severe and unintuitive or unexplained
- Unreliable part controls: putting multiple parts working together or using them in a way the game didn't expect can often lead to controls simply not working, or very weird behavior that doesn't make sense. I found myself having to *delete and re-build* and re-configure the part controls to fix it in some cases.
- Obviously wrong physics behaviors: in multiple occasions I have had situations where the physics simply break down, such as the main chassis of a solid vehicle splitting in half and rotating *instead of* the turret on the aiming servo, which somehow remains still???
- Missing keybindings and controls options: in a game all about configuring your own vehicle and the way it works, and in every other game I've seen of the genre, I expect to have simple things like being able to bind extra mouse buttons (4/5, forward and back, etc) or reconfigure all of the game's own controls.

Luckily, none of these issues were major enough to stop me from enjoying the game, so I can still click 'Yes' for Steam, but I really hope that the devs will spend some time cleaning up the edge cases and making the foundation of the game rock-solid before moving on to adding fanciful new campaigns or content.

Really good for creative players but when it comes to logic this game is alright but when it comes to the math it makes me cry like what is the point if you cant multiply an imput by another like bruh this constant feature make me so angry oml. like u have math logic gates and you cant even do proper live calculations. PLEASE FOR ME AND OTHERS MAKE IT SO YOU CAN MULTIPLY INPUTS BY OTHER INPUTS PLLEEEAAASSSEEEE!!!!!

Read carefully before coming to a conclusion.

This game is really good, and has lots of content and worlds to explore. Trailmakers is a game of vehicle construction, engineering chaos, and infinite dlcs. However, the game's content quality has been gradually declining over the last year and a half. They have been adding more and more dlcs with increasingly lower returns or increasingly unbalanced gameplay. Trailmakers has a decent building system and average connection/wiring system, but it lacks complexity and creativity. It's physics system leaves things to be desired and is terribly inefficient, causing rather intense computational requirements that otherwise would be unnecessary. It does, however, have a welcoming, if rowdy, community and easy intercontinental server connections. Most in game servers are player hosted, and all you need to host your own is a good connection and above game requirements computer. With trailmakers, you can create the vehicles of your dreams within 89% accuracy. Overall, I would give this game a 7/10, but if the game hadn't been slowly declining in quality and unfortunately devolving into a giant pile of DLC packs, I would give it an 8.5/10.

In the end, you should buy this if you like building stuff with block-like objects and have a large wad of money to spare.

W game. really fun and easy to get started on. Sadly has a decent amount of content locked behind DLC's but still rather fun and pliable even without DLC content