Hakoniwa City Railway (箱庭シティ鉄道)

A station-operations simulator where you run a four-track station, now with a middle track and crossovers, to the timetable. At the heart of a tiny diorama city you are station master and dispatcher.

How to play

• Tell each approaching train which track to take to set its route. Tracks 2 and 3 are the main lines; 1 and 4 are sidings.
• When a train stops, open the doors to start boarding, then close the doors and dispatch it (platform doors move together with the train doors).
• Limited expresses and freights pass through. Clear the main line, or send the local ahead into the siding to wait for the pass.
• A terminating train becomes out of service after it empties. Tap it and choose Turn back: it shunts over the crossovers and the middle track to the opposite platform and leaves as the return service.

New operations

• Turnback and shunting: pull trains up to the middle track and push them back in. Shunting holds the crossover, so plan around other trains
• Timetable creation: change times by the minute, plus train type, destination and track; "Create timetable" on the title screen runs your own timetable
• Platform doors prevent track accidents and work in step with the train doors
• Stabling tracks and rolling stock factory: build units, stable them, couple and uncouple them to trains, and customise colours and seats
• Departure melodies, door chimes and spoken announcements were added

Highlights

• Signals, points, train spacing, boarding time and inherited delays recreate real station operation
• Daily trouble: heavy rain, items dropped on the track, late-running trains and group visitors
• Station upgrades: boarding assistants, wider platforms, new signalling and platform doors
• Japanese and English text, plus station announcements (text, and voice where supported)