“The Grey, Misty Gloom Streaking Past Me Is Authentically British”
PC Gamer US Edition|June 2018

Recreating the tedium of the railway experience in TRAIN SIMWORLD: GREAT WESTERN EXPRESS

“The Grey, Misty Gloom Streaking Past Me Is Authentically British”

I’ve taken the train from Bath to London hundreds of times in my life, usually to visit game developers in the capital. And while I enjoy that part of the job, the journey itself is a dispiriting chore. Rail travel in the United Kingdom is a chaos of delays, overcrowding and overpriced sandwiches. Yet when I saw great western express on Steam—an expansion for Train sim world that recreates part of that route—I felt compelled to play it. Videogames are a powerful form of escapism for me, but what if I played one to achieve the complete opposite of that?

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