A Bunch Of Games I Liked At Gamescom 2022
Gamescom had a helluva lot of great games this year, even with a lot of blockbuster developers and publishers taking a year off. As the first major in-person event since the pandemic began, I was also particularly keen to absorb everything I could at the event. TheGamer sent four editors and we were busy soaking up games and talking to devs throughout the entire show, meaning we saw a lot of cool things that we might have missed if we had a smaller presence. However, it also means there are too many damn games to cover. Too many I say. Let's stop all games until we can figure out what's going on. Below you'll find a bunch of games I saw at Gamescom that I might not be able to write full previews of, but want to make sure everyone checks out.
First we have a game that is both the most chilled and the most stressful game I saw all weekend. Railway Empire 2 asks you to become the number one railway magnate in either the UK, the USA, or all of Europe. To do this you'll need to choose which towns and cities to connect with railways, and then buy out businesses. For example, if you have a town with a distillery and a town with a penchant for alcohol, it serves you to connect those two towns, and possibly buy out the distillery yourself.
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What's more, if the alcohol town makes leather and the distillery town has a cobbler, you can make the trip twice as useful by shipping goods back and forth - and don't forget to add a few guest carts to pick up passengers. This time around, the track direction system has been automated, and more personality has been injected into each of your competitors. Mostly, I liked that you could
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