This is a 1 person job?! It looks practically photorealistic. That's absolutely wild.
Not to dismiss the effort by dev, but all Unreal engine games look photoreal these days. My point is that photorealism does not show effort these days.
Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
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#52>And oh my goodness, it’s so pretty.
Am I the only one that thinks the word "pretty" is overused to describe the visual quality and artistry of games? I see this word thrown around often and it feels so low-effort.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ideas and aesthetics
That's the part that is visible to everyone else, so that's the part that an LLM can see. That means someone else can clone your ideas and aesthetics. The ol' double-edged sword.
It only works when starting with open source to show to LLM. To monetize my modification, I would not make mine open source.
If the licensing allows for it I’m fine.
Re: Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
#54This is a 1 person job?! It looks practically photorealistic. That's absolutely wild.
Not to dismiss the effort by dev, but all Unreal engine games look photoreal these days. My point is that photorealism does not show effort these days.
No engine in the world can make bad assets look good.
Re: Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
#55I wonder if it's got VR. There's not many train Sims that do even though the sim community in general has really embraced VR.
It works great with UEVR, there's a discussion post in the steam forum on how to set that up. It plays really nicely in VR.
Re: Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
#56>And oh my goodness, it’s so pretty. Am I the only one that thinks the word "pretty" is overused to describe the visual quality and artistry of games? I see this word thrown around often and it feels so low-effort.
It's a simple word that does the job. No need to overthink it.
Re: Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
#57This is a 1 person job?! It looks practically photorealistic. That's absolutely wild.
Not to dismiss the effort by dev, but all Unreal engine games look photoreal these days. My point is that photorealism does not show effort these days.
Oh wow, I didn't know engines provided that much functionality. Thank you.
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#58Windows only? :-(
2026 Steam hardware survey [1]: Windows: 94.10% Linux: 3.68% macOS: 2.21% [1] Click the "OS Version" row to expand the table, https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
Something of a self-reinforcing statistic. Steam is rarely installed on Mac because there’s hardly any point doing so.
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#59I always wonder how a solo developer can source high quality assets like these, plus develop a full game with them. In this case did the dev create the assets or did they purchase them from a freelancer? How much would purchasing this many assets cost?
Re: Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
#60Windows only? :-(
Nowadays most games will run on Linux thanks to Valve's Proton compatibility layer.
"most" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Multiplayer games generally don't.
Haven't tried this one yet, but in my experience it's like 90% of single player games work and the remaining 10% will never work.