The City Sim You've Never Heard Of...

Wow, looks really, really cool... I need to look into this.

Wow, looks really, really cool... I need to research this.

It looks ok and all, but it looks like a rip off of cities XL... :/

I've heard of this game before Its kind of fun to play ,but you need to keep a close eye on your money even though they give you 800,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 dollars. There are videos of it on youtube just type in A-train 8 or A-train 9. I'm looking for the A-train 9 demo I'll let you guys know if I find something.

I think it will be better than Cities XL 2011

found something! judging from what I found, there's no english version yet

gameplay link:

some gameplay

A - Train is not a SimCity. It is very much like it in that your population centers grow along to what you do and build, but it's more like Cities in Motion. If any of you want to know exactly what the game is about, here is a review of A-Train 3 in Japan (A-Train in US) which was published by Maxis.

I don't read character nor understand Mandarin, so the site isn't much use to me. However, many are called but few are chosen.

on the official page is some kind of picture that says 2011 12. 23. ON SALE.

So i think that the U.S. or EU release date will be december 23

Hope som, i used to play this game on dost (ooold version)

LOL - that youtube clip/review right above is from A-Train in 1992 or whenever. I think even in DOS version. I think it's safe to say it's irrelevant.

A-Train 9 looks pretty badass. Although I am sure it is pretty different from SC in alot of ways.

It looks cool, but so did Cities XL (pick a version), and it ain't all that....

This is A-Train 9, developed by Artdink in Japan.

A-Train 9

A-Train Series

English releases include A-Train HX for the X360 by 505 Games and A-Train 8 by DHM Interactive (now defunct I think).

A-Train HX

yes i do belive this is the new a-Train also maxis published one in (America as shown above) for ms dos and mac i enjoyed that game and dos box is making that possible the goal s to use trains to establish urban developement i would love the play the newer ones

Actually reminds me of transport tycoon.

Defantly japan though... cars don't drive on the left in china.

Amazing game! Found a forum about it on simcity.cn here

Good stuff here! I played A Train a LONG time ago, before I really knew how to do city building games. Its so easy to go bankrupt, so I never really got into it. I didn't think it was still out there!

hi guys, check out this link A-train 9 blog

a german version seems to be coming out soon, so lets hope for an english version too!

The scaling doesn't seem quite right, the transport networks are too big compared to the building (In one video a train was the same size as 3 floors of a building) and the farms are ridiculously small compared to everything else, but barring that it looks pretty good.

Actually I have played A-Train 8. I didn't know 9 was out. I found it out when I was looking for a railway simulator a few years back.

I tried out the A-train 9 viewer, and if people are looking for a city builder, this is not it. I'm sure its a fantastic train simulator, but nothing more than that. The cities are void of any life, I didn't see any people walking around, no cars,etc. The only things actually moving were the trains and some trucks. It all looked nice, no doubt about that, but it isn't a city builder.