Rolling Line

Rolling Line is for the people who like model railways, because it turns miniature trains, track laying, and layout building into the whole game. By our assessment, its best quality is the tactile sense of arranging a railway set in space, moving cars, shaping hills, and watching the line come alive from a close, toy-like viewpoint. The catch is that the appeal is very specific; if train modelling does not already sound good, the pace will seem slow and the work will feel fussy. In practice it is a careful builder more than an action game, with plenty of time spent on placement and adjustment. Compared with grand transport simulators, it is smaller and more personal, and that is exactly why it works. The name tells the truth about its ceiling: the pleasure is in the layout, not in drama.