One thing Random is made up of former SUPERHOT builders, however the studio’s debut recreation could not be extra completely different. Toy Trains is a cute, enjoyable recreation that permits you to relive the easy enjoyable present in constructing mannequin prepare tracks, and it does so fairly efficiently.
A prepare set in a dusty attic simply so occurs to be dwelling to a tiny populace often known as Railies. These puny folks want your assist to make tracks that’ll lead trains from mines and woodcutters to development websites, constructing lovely institutions like a film theatre and an influence plant. Gameplay is tremendous intuitive; utilizing the triggers on PSVR2’s Sense controllers, you pluck the required monitor items, trains, and wagons from the person handbook and plonk them onto the board in entrance of you. It is satisfyingly tactile.
The topography of every panorama will dictate how and the place you possibly can construct your tracks, however there isn’t any one proper reply — so long as your routes meet the necessities, you may progress by way of a stage. With no deadlines or scores to fret about both, Toy Trains makes for a relaxed, playful time. The presentation aids this too, with a pretty artwork type that is straightforward to learn and nice music all through.
Every stage introduces new components, resembling bridges to cross water or slopes so your trains can transfer vertically. When you attain the tenth and ultimate stage, you can create some pretty advanced tracks if you want. Upon beating the sport and concluding the covert however candy story, you are free to play every stage once more, however there’s little else to see and do right here.
It is on the brief facet, which is not actually an issue, however particularly by way of choices it is fairly barebones. In reality, there are not any actual settings to talk of, not even to regulate in-game quantity or change peak. Thankfully, it is a stationary recreation with minimal controls to fret about, so it arguably does not want numerous choices — however some primary stuff is lacking.
All instructed, although, Toy Trains delivers a satisfying expertise that’ll enchantment to gamers of all ages. When you’re after a nostalgic and enjoyable VR title, you may do far worse than choo-choo-choose this nice little recreation.