Clearly you folks haven't tried playing A-Train, a Japanese train tycoon game...
Seriously though, try it out! It's actually one of the best games I've ever played. I'd even say that it's so underrated.
It's a train tycoon game, but also silently focuses on being a real estate simulator, just like how a lot of Japanese companies don't make money primarily on train tickets, but instead real estate or other non-farebox income.
one of my favourite games ever was "railroad tycoon 2"; it was not a particularly deep railway simulator, but it was a superbly immersive treatment of "railroads helped settle a continent". few games achieved that sort of immersive feeling for me, civ 1 and stellaris are the other ones that come to mind.
Seriously though, try it out! It's actually one of the best games I've ever played. I'd even say that it's so underrated.
It's a train tycoon game, but also silently focuses on being a real estate simulator, just like how a lot of Japanese companies don't make money primarily on train tickets, but instead real estate or other non-farebox income.