Seems like one of the better train sims, you actually get to play with the buttons in the trains... But...
If you fall in love with the game the cost of the "full game" is just beyond silly. £2000+... Even if they had a 50% off weekend, it still would be silly expensive.

Hard to fall in love with so far, 2+ hours still stuck in the tutorials which are really buggy, keep having to reset and try again.

It's a "loose" simulation, you can bring a carriage train into the station and go from 100km/hr to 0 in less than 100m? [Squint] Like, I'm not a master of travel and stopping distances, but... That seems massively off without even popping emergency brakes. A bug? Cos' I ain't no wizard.
The UI doesn't seem to know what the speed limit is half the time, the train dash saying one thing and the HUD wrongly saying another (that you were following) as you get slapped with a "massively driving over the speed limit" warning next to your AP frame... Can't trust the HUD.

Which brings me to another point, I appear to have started with a minimalist HUD as chosen on first run... Tutorials do not take this into account "See your X element here", there is no X element.
There's tons of little quirks and what-the-fish problems like this, towards the end of the steam tutorial, after loading coal, the tutorial says drive forward, derails the train (end of track) meters ahead and the scenario has to be done all over again... But why? Bug.

Can't ignore the FPS getting hit by map loading lag as you speed along (not a potato-PC), popping of map decorations, rails popping left and right as they get closer etc. ...But if you do decide to look around, some of the 'features' of everyday life are hilarious. The roads by the Marseilles starting station look like someone offloaded a ton of black play-dough on the ground - Honestly at this point it would have been cheaper (performance wise) and better looking to just paint the map black there and pretend it's asphalt. Got a giggle at the decorations anyways, that's soo 2005 gaming.

boring and shallow, same graphics as previous iterations and bugs, such as getting stuck when getting up, or pantograph failing to raise in british trains, I played tsw 2 and 3 and i knew what i was getting into, unfortunately its extremely engaging for the first 2 hours so you cannot return it.

Olivia Rodrigo is the best

Game is fun but you wont see any american steam on here. Disappointed.

honastly I did not install train sim world 3 or 4 but I do have train sim world 2 and to me this is just the same as train sim world 2 with a couple of changes all of them are good Im not going to spoil them you can find out yourself

I forgot how I got it for free

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Big SCAM out buy the game and here best part you have to buy the DLC AGAIN even you got them from the last game have to buy them again to work on this game. they like to rob your money

fun

Very relaxing game. Love to play it to unwind after a long day :)

If you're reading reviews about niche game I guess you could just go and get it.

I can recommend TSW5 cause I'm mediocre train enthusiast. And just enjoy different type of "simulator" games. And I got this latest version for free.

However, gamer in me wants still point out couple issues:

Stuttering. I managed to reduce stuttering by looking hints from world wide web but this problem still occurs. It's literally a thing going on tracks. One might think it should be possible to optimise this better (yes, unreal engine has it's problems I know). But the thing about trains are that they should be rolling smooooothly.

Price. I have dozen of DLC's purchased over time. All of these I've got from different "sales". DLC's are on sale randomly and their quality is inconsistent. Every year "new" version of the basegame is published and "old" version has a steep decline in the price. Don't know what is the logic there but I really wish DTG should focus on updating the base game.

Minor issues: Big train stations are empty during a rush hour. People step on and leave the train on a random stations. Tracks look nice but roads are nah. Tracks should make louder sound. And freight train brakes should scream.