Railway Empire: The Great Lakes (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Railway Empire: The Great Lakes

Dominated by forest and tundra, Canada in the 1860s is sparsely populated and only a few settlements have managed to develop into larger towns. Bridge the distance between the British colonies and reach…

17 August 2018

What Railway Empire: The Great Lakes is

Railway Empire: The Great Lakes is a simulator game developed by Gaming Minds Studios and released in 2018. It was published by Kalypso Media Digital. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dominated by forest and tundra, Canada in the 1860s is sparsely populated and only a few settlements have managed to develop into larger towns. Bridge the distance between the British colonies and reach economic independence by creating a track infrastructure for the Great Lakes region.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Railway Empire: The Great Lakes launched on 17 August 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition and Dead Cells. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells.

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