Social Game Review: Lucky Train
When a Japanese friend I’d met in Treasure Abyss invited me to try A Bit Lucky’s “Lucky Train”, I thought immediately of the legendary train sim “Densha de GO!”. The description sure sounded like it. Build trains and send them from your town to those of your friends, past country scenes you design. I was absolutely there. Well, I was close. You do build trains, and you do send them from your town, but you don’t go with them. Lucky Train is a fairly simplistic city sim, except instead of built around a town hall or castle, it’s built around a train station. As you progress, you raise a town and later a city around that train station. In your city, the only thing anyone wants to do is leave – by train. ...