It’s great to have a train simulator like this. The missions/sessions, whatever they’re called, are good fun, and there’s about 5 of them. Once you’re done with those, there’s the free drive, which is really fun to mess around in. I love the free drive, it’s the best part of any Train Driver Journey game.
However, some locomotives from the sessions aren’t included in free drive. Specifically the GP9 on Canadian Pacific, and the GP38-2 on Canadian National. I loved driving these locomotives in the sessions, so why aren’t they in free drive?
And the physics. I am not an expert on train physics. The in-game route goes up a mountain. When playing with the realistic controls, this makes it difficult to control the train. I use the realistic controls, because separate throttle and brakes is a better experience than the slider. I feel like there should be an indicator that lets the driver know about any uphill/downhill slopes. Although it’s not a huge deal, as I’m sure that real engineers don’t have an indicator like that.
Overall, I love playing this game. I prefer TDJ 5, but it’s nice to drive the Canadian locomotives every once in a while. The game has flaws that annoy me, but I would still recommend it to anyone who can’t get bigger train sims like Train Sim World, or anyone who just wants a train sim on their phone.