I had an HO scale model railroad as a kid, so at first watching this I thought "neat". Then "whoa". "Holy shit". And at the end... THAT WAS ALL LEGO?!!! Where the hell was this 30 years ago?!!

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Coming out this October!

This is the "spiritual" sequel to Railroad Tycoon (as that one was made by Sid Meier, as is this one).
The original RRT came out in 1990 (first computer game I ever bought!) and it was the precursor for essentially the entire "Tycoon" genre of games.

RRT2 and RRT3 were made by another developer, a fine chap who managed to buy the rights to this series (hence the "Railroads!" name for this game... following the theme of "Sid Meier's: Pirates!", another remake of one his classic originals).

But now we get to see Sid give it the 21st century treatment. I can hardly wait.

Fun fact: the original Railroad Tycoon was originally going to be a computer version of playing with a model railroad - no cut-throat business competition or anything like that. After tooling around with early designs, though, they realized the game would be a lot fun as a railroad/business simulator, hence "Railroad Tycoon". Ironically Microsoft eventually came out with the game Sid decided not to make, releasing Train Simulator (not as successful, I'd argue, because 1. I never played it, and 2. they decided against developing the sequel).