Pop the kettle on for some Great British Railway Journeys this week

If there’s a distinct segment games haven’t actually crammed, it’s lazy Sunday morning telly. Something for when your gran’s spherical, with a scorching cuppa and the mild patter of a lightweight bathe tapping in opposition to the home windows. This week, Dovetail Games are flicking the channel over to Great British Railway Journeys, a Train Simulator spin-off that’s delivering Michael Portillo’s frightfully English BBC Two collection to Steam on March fifth.

Ooh, it’s all so awfully Tory, isn’t it? Pass the biscuits, Michael.

Great British Railway Journeys is a licensed spin-off from Dovetail’s Train Simulator collection. But reasonably than painstakingly recreating each final cab, carriage and commuter line in Britain, GBRJ has hand-picked 5 routes from the George Bradshaw’s Handbook, a “comprehensive tourist guide” of the nation’s railways launched in 1840 and the impetus behind the present’s escapades.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like presenter Michael Portillo will present dulcet commentary of your digital journeys himself. His involvement begins and ends with a PR soundbite, praising the “level of realism and extraordinary detail” of GBRJ, making it really feel “exactly like being in the driving seat of a train.”

I’d bloody nicely hope so, Michael. It’s a practice simulator.

Never actually understood what’s so nice about British practice rides, myself. Oh, we’ve received some beautiful views on the market, however they’re no precisely low cost. Costs me thrice as a lot to catch a practice all the way down to London because it does to fly, and that’s once we’re not getting circled at Berwick-Upon-Tweed due to all of the flooding. Even then, half the routes within the English North are nonetheless utilizing pacers, successfully an historical metal bus with some rail wheels slapped on.

Pending sheep on the road or additional flooding, Great British Railway Journeys will pull into Steam‘s station on Wednesday 4th.