Theme Park: Trains & Railways — 7 Games That'll Have You Laying Track Like It's 1869
Trains are the backbone of modern board gaming. The 18xx genre literally predates most of what we’d recognise as “hobby gaming,” and the simple act of connecting two points on a map with a coloured line has launched a thousand designs. There’s something primal about railways — the expansion, the competition for limited routes, the satisfying click of infrastructure falling into place. But “train games” aren’t one thing. They span the entire complexity spectrum, from games you can teach your parents in five minutes to economic simulations that make spreadsheets look casual. The theme bends to fit everything from gentle tourism to robber baron capitalism, from fantasy steam-magic to pure abstract stock manipulation. ...
