#MiniReview #VideoGames Bounty Train (2017) by Corbie Games is an economic simulation set in the American East around the Civil War. Zooming between stations in your personal steam train, you will have to transport passengers, cargo and crew to make money and face the many perils of this time, including bandits, native Americans, Union and Confederate soldiers, and even the Ku Klux Klan.

This game manages to breathe life in what is essentially a min-max game with interesting diminishing returns, timed and random events, and an overarching storyline that keeps things from going stale. You'll meet, even briefly, characters like Ulysses Grant, Robert Lee, Mark Twain, Samuel Colt and some of the most famous rail barons of the time.

Interestingly, I abandoned the game a few years back because of a save game breaking bug, but when I reinstalled it recently, ready to start over, I was able to resume my old save and complete the campaign.