Alright, after a few years I have decided to update my review on this game. If steam allowed a middle ground instead of yes/no I would choose that. This game is just a 2009 game that is rebranded every year with 3 new DLCs that you have to buy the game to get those new DLCs.
Yes you buying this game now will ONLY and I mean ONLY give you these three DLCs for this year, when next year comes around you will have to pay the (USD~30) for those "new" DLCs again, the fact that they are still saying this is "new" and the marketing looks like that for anybody who isn't in the know for this 10 year old game is very shady. The what is it now, over $8000 on DLC is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. Now to be fair you do not at all need all of the DLC, However charging ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ~$40 PER ROUTE and not changing the price 3 years later, or charging ~$10-20 per loco/train/emu/dmu and not changing the price until the thing is 6 YEARS OLD is very shady if you ask me. Now you may say "Hey they need to make money don't they?" and you'd be right, its just when there is a %40-80 sale on the DLC during sale time, that proves to me that they have already paid off the creation cost and will milk the cow till the end of time.
Alright enough of the bad, now some good. If you like trains this is a fun game. There are good DLCs, some are worth the money, same with locomotives, and that's about it

Alright, after a few years I have decided to update my review on this game. If steam allowed a middle ground instead of yes/no I would choose that. This game is just a 2009 game that is rebranded every year with 3 new DLCs that you have to buy the game to get those new DLCs. Yes you buying this game now will ONLY and I mean ONLY give you these three DLCs for this year, when next year comes around you will have to pay the (USD~30) for those "new" DLCs again, the fact that they are still saying this is "new" and the marketing looks like that for anybody who isn't in the know for this 10 year old game is very shady. The what is it now, over $8000 on DLC is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. Now to be fair you do not at all need all of the DLC, However charging fucking ~$40 PER ROUTE and not changing the price 3 years later, or charging ~$10-20 per loco/train/emu/dmu and not changing the price until the thing is 6 YEARS OLD is very shady if you ask me. Now you may say "Hey they need to make money don't they?" and you'd be right, its just when there is a %40-80 sale on the DLC during sale time, that proves to me that they have already paid off the creation cost and will milk the cow till the end of time. Alright enough of the bad, now some good. If you like trains this is a fun game. There are good DLCs, some are worth the money, same with locomotives, and that's about it