The world is at your fingertips – and it’s all connected by rail.

Whether you’re racing through the snowy peaks of the Nordics or navigating the vibrant landscapes of India, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single track. Our latest offering, the Ticket to Ride: World Tour Collection, invites you to embark on a global expedition across the ultimate digital version of the multi-award-winning board game.

This isn’t just a game; it’s your first-class pass to the definitive Ticket to Ride experience, optimised for Steam and ready for your strategic brilliance.

A Passport to Endless Strategy

This massive collection features the Ticket to Ride base game along with 10 expansions, offering limitless strategy and replayability. Highlights of your journey include:

• Europe Expansion: Tunnel through the Alps and claim ferry routes across the Mediterranean in this fan-favourite map.
• India Expansion: Navigate the vibrant cities of India and chase the elusive Mandala Bonus.
• Nordic Expansion: Set off to the northern reaches of the world, building routes between colourful, snow-covered cities.
• Japan & San Francisco: Experience high-speed Bullet Trains in Japan or cruise through the iconic hills of 60’s San Francisco.
• Legendary Asia, Switzerland, Germany, and more: From the Silk Road to the heart of Africa, every expansion brings new mechanics and unique challenges.

Making Tracks for Mental Health

Every journey should have a meaningful destination, and that’s why we are proud to partner with Safe In Our World for this collection.

Every purchase directly supports this vital charity, helping to foster mental health awareness and provide resources for gamers and developers alike. As you build your railway empire and connect cities across the globe, you’re also helping to build a more supportive and inclusive gaming community. By playing, you are helping to ensure that no one has to navigate their mental health journey alone.

Travel Further for Less

As with all Green Man Gaming Bundles, your keys are delivered instantly, allowing you to set off right away. Plus, your purchase includes an extra 3% off voucher for your next PC game at Green Man Gaming, so your library keeps growing even after you’ve mastered the rails.

The Ticket to Ride: World Tour Collection is only available for a limited time. Don’t miss your chance to own this modern classic!

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In 2024 I wrote about A Short Trip, a tiny hand-drawn game where a cat drives a train. Well now I’m back with A Bumpy Ride, a Western game where a bear (I think?) drives a train. I’m not sure why we’re seeing a boom in the animal-drives-a-train genre, but I’m into it.

A Bumpy Ride is being developed by Cosmoporium Games; its Steam demo recently got an update that includes a tutorial and unlimited in-game days of play. During those days, you pick up various animal passengers from one station and drive them to another. In addition to wanting to get to their destination on time, the animals like it when you obey train traffic signs, like going slow when a sign says to go slow or sounding your train whistle when a sign says to sound your train whistle.

The tracks you follow are set into a sprawling desert landscape that, even rendered cartoonishly, really evokes a 19th century developing West. Wooden towns appear among the tumbleweeds and cacti, from little outposts of only a few houses to relatively sprawling metropolises set among cliffs or along rivers. Some paths in the demo are blocked off by boulders that the game says requires TNT to clear, and though you can’t do this in the demo I did enjoy rolling into a TNT depot and imagining chugging around with a bunch of dynamite. The weather changes, as does the time of day, with the sky becoming an endless expanse of stars that reminded me of being alone in the wilderness in Red Dead Redemption.

While there isn’t all that much to do in the demo mechanically, what you can do is very satisfying thanks to the game’s chunky interface. You control the train with a lever on the right side of your screen, pulling it to speed up, slow down, stop, and reverse. The whistle is controlled with a pull-down tab at the top of the screen that I spent a lot of time pulling just for fun. Track directions are switched with a pop-up interface that’s equally satisfying, and also often sent me frantically checking my map to make sure I was headed the right way, especially when I was first unveiling which directions are available and wasn’t sure where a set of tracks would take me. You also have to keep your train topped up with water, stopping in just the right spot at towers placed around the map to let water pour into the right car of your train.

Satisfied passengers pay you money, and you can use this to upgrade to a new train, buy more seats for passengers, or install a bar car that makes passengers a bit more cheerful. I definitely did not satisfy all my passengers, especially when I was first learning the map and took them on long, scenic tours into the night instead of getting them to their destinations. But once I knew where I was going, A Bumpy Ride was a simple, lovely experience of chugging along following traffic laws and watching the landscape roll past, listening to the jaunty music and admiring the landscape.

Cosmoporium plans to release the game later this year, and the Steam page promises more areas, train cars, and a level-up system that will include “new upgrades, staff, and skins.”

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