PC User Reviews

Reviewed two days after Train Sim World was published in Steam. The real consumer version, not beta. What a letdown. I don't know how Dovetail managed to make this bad graphics with Unreal 4 engine. In comparison to other Unreal 4 engined games this has ugly vegetation and clumsy cardboard cities with nobody apparently living there. Average gamer PC gets 15 - 25 fps, high end machines getting 25 - 45. Imagine that. More game design faults: this PC game recognises only two controllers, namely Xbox 360 controller and one type of UK keyboard. Other controllers owners - forget it. Train sim specified controllers some train sim addicts own - do not work. If you have other than United Kingdom QWERTY keyboard, don't bother. Or try if you want to but you will have sorely missing functions for example in train brakes. Try then to drive simulated train with only about 50% of brake functions working.... you simply can not. It's a game killing design fault. - - Oh but you can remap controls, says one famous youtuber and Dovetail. No you can not! It's a lie, remapping ain't working at all, as many purchasers have painfully found out. Including me. I'm a very experienced train sim hobbyist with thousands of hours with MSTS, Dovetail TS2012 - 17 and Trainz 2006 - TANE. Painful history with various train simulators have made me careful. I don't believe for a second in Dovetail's promises about patching all bugs and faults ( yes there are plenty of them, I just scratched the surface.) So I asked for refund in Steam and got my money back. Steam deserves 10+, but this new simulator gets 5-. It's no good.