You don't just drive a train. You build a supply chain. You set up a coal mine that loads hoppers, which are taken to a power plant, which generates electricity to power a city you built. You can then step into the cab of the engine pulling that coal and watch the system you designed work in real-time.

In a gaming landscape dominated by battle royales and hyper-realistic shooters, there is a quiet, dedicated corner of the internet where the pace is measured in miles per hour, not frames per second. Welcome to Trainz: A New Era (T:ANE).

Once downloaded, don't just drive the tutorials. Open "Surveyor." Place a single track in an empty field. Then another. Then a station. Six hours will vanish.