From the electrified arteries of New Jersey to the coastal curves of Devon, Train Sim World 6 invites players to dive deep into a simulation where no journey is ever truly predictable. With random faults, audible platform announcements, and a Free Roam mode that lets you chart your own path, this isn’t just a train game; it’s a living, breathing rail network. Whether you’re dispatching passengers in Conductor Mode or designing liveries in the Creator’s Club, every track tells a story. Let’s explore what makes this sixth iteration a bold leap forward for the genre.

Train Sim World 6 Review Pros

• Beautifully detailed, realistic graphics. 
• 6.85GB download size. 
• Platinum trophy. 
• You can import your save and profile from previous games. 
• You get the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
• There is a FREE starter pack edition until October 17th, 2025.
• Dovetail Live integration. (optional, and it’s for community sharing of images, etc.)
• Graphics settings – motion blur, display mode (4K/HD), and volumetric fog.
• Eight avatars to choose from to play as, and you set your name.
• Three difficulties: Beginner, standard, and experienced, and these generally dictate how much work you have to do for action, penalties, that sort of thing. 
• Photo mode is integrated and has a ton of options and filters to mess around with. 
• Opening tutorial set in the training centre.
• Routes (when on foot) can be found and followed for action points (AP).
• The action points (AP) act like experience points.
• First-person perspective.
• Satisfying pop-up of completed tasks with earned AP showing.
• When on the train, you can hover over anything to interact with it; some actions, like brakes and acceleration, have button shortcuts.
• The starter pack has no new routes but does have new trains – 8F Steam locomotive, Class 66 diesel locomotive, BR 146 electric locomotive, and Class 323 EMU. You also get access to the upgraded live map and fast travel system.
• Fully animated interactions like the throttle moving, windscreen wipers, etc.
• Accessibility options – Colourblind support, subtitles, default movement, speedometer HUD size, Crosshair visibility, auto-hide Crosshair, lightning effects, arcing spark effects, show the score and show the current speed limit.
• Full 3D world, and you have full 360-degree camera control.
• When sitting on the train, you can zoom the camera in and out amd look around. 
• Controller settings – signal aspect, alert flashes, throttle, track Rumble vibration, audible alerts on the controller speaker, control hover vibration, lever moved through notches, flicked Switch, and coupling vibration. Two control schemes (classic and immersion),  Invert axis and sensitivity slider.
• Player assist settings – automatic coupling and manual/automatic junctions.
• I found the general performance to be much improved over the last game, amd it looks a lot more detailed and realistic. 
• Full livery designer for each train type and a scenario planner.
• Share and download other players’ Creations as long as you sign into the Dovetail service. 
• My profile shows miles driven in each train, player level, earned medals, etc.
• Four main game modes – start journey, which is your career mode, explore on foot as you walk around the training centre, fundamentals, which is basic training, tutorials, and train modules. 
• Quick play lets you choose 0 – 30 or 30+ minutes of game length.
• Rail journeys let you pick a location, and then you do the scenarios within each; it’s like a career mode as you do guided routes.
• Choose a route that has the following game types: lifelike timetables, scenarios, training modules, and free roam.
• Train Depot lets you pick – timetables, scenarios, and training modules.
• Save when you want.
• You can reseat the train physics from the in-game menu.
• Skirts the line between arcade and hardcore sim.
• Full day and night cycle with many weather types.
• Highly detailed trains.
• When picking a route or scenario, you get a difficulty rating of 1 to 5.
• You do get handy icons to help get a train started.
• Beautiful locations.
• Realistic sound effects and noises.
• Very satisfying when you nail a stop or get the train moving.
• It has good feedback with constant exp bar pop-ups as you do the actions and scenarios.
• So many scenic routes.
• A full 3D game world with 360-degree camera control.
• Fully voiced narration.
• Very atmospheric, from the noises of the train to the living world, beeps and crackles from the train itself.
• I was able to import the Thomas the Tank engine DLC, no problem, it showed up as free (I already owned it) and hit download. 
• It did show me everything I had in previous games as available for this version at no extra charge, so that was nice. 
• It’s a Train enthusiast’s dream game as it takes in many trains, types of trains, and routes. 
• The initial flyover and info dump is surprisingly nice to hear before setting out on a journey, especially if it’s the first time hearing about it. 
• For me, they have built on the last one and just added a lot more polish, and the game is just as, if not more, deep as before.

Train Sim World 6 Review Cons

• Cannot remap the controls.
• Despite playing the game a lot and importing my save, it still made me sit through tutorials or should I say it kept pushing me to do them. 
• To get any of your DLC or content, you have to either go into the slow in-game store and wait for it to populate Free in the box and then download it, or you go into the PSN store and download them individually, either way it’s slow and tedious plus you obviously have to download the packs and tracks are a few handful of gigs each time. 
• Even though I had a deluxe edition, I think it was, I still had to go and download all the individual parts of what I owned.
• No way to skip the tutorial, it’s long and much the same as last year, so this is a real bummer.
• A lot to take in for new players. 
• The game locks up when accessing the store tab, which can be triggered by accident more easily because it’s right next to the settings menu. 
• Every new train is daunting as the layouts of the cabin are all over the place.
• It leans way more into the Simulator part than the arcade, and this is more an FYI than anything. 
• Takes a while to get going.
• You have to have a Dovetail account in order to download/share scenarios, amd yes, you can choose not to sign in, but then you get red banners around the place saying that you don’t have an account signed in. 
• I can import my profile and purchases, but somehow that doesn’t sign me into my Dovetail account. 
• You will need to set aside a good hour or so in order to get through the tutorial.
• The controls are fiddly just for an authentic feel, when really, they should stay more gamey. Having to click something to then drag the bar is a little bit too much.

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Train Sim World 6

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