Review: STATIONflow (PC)

Review by Harvard L.

The recipe for a successful management sim is taking a scenario which everyone is familiar with, and which everyone has at one point thought “I bet I could’ve done better than the clown who was hired to do this.” STATIONflow is exactly this for the subtle art of train station layout design, and players are thrust straight into the shoes of the clowns who manage these heavily-crowded spaces. If you’ve ever felt like an idiot trying to find an exit, a bathroom or a map at a train station, now you get to yell at virtual idiots who do the same thing despite all the signs you’ve placed. STATIONflow is an unexpectedly harrowing experience. It’s a game which confronts the player with their hubris for thinking that building planning could be easy. But once the player learns the patterns to look out for and the best practices which achieve consistent results, STATIONflow is also a hugely rewarding management sim which fosters a greater appreciation for foolproof interior design.

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