I like trains... and so I like games that involves destructible elements, too. This game serves my affinity for those quite well for different reasons. By destroying things in usual games, often involves deconstructing and cleaning up, which is actually tangent to what you're doing in Train Station Renovation.

Making my in-game career in the titular business, I go from location to location cleaning up and refurbishing (mostly) abandoned train stations since the railroad line has been reactivated anew. The process is the same: Pick up the trash, clean up or destroy(!) old replacable objects, throw them into (sortable or non-sortable) trash, wipe the station clean and furnish them with the required set of objects and furnitures you can choose and buy. Every location, refreshingly enough, also holds unique tasks for you to carry out (restore power, drain the flood, wash a train car, even dispose of radioactive waste etc.) but these can be quickly sorted out and you're already spending a majority of time doing the same tasks to make the stations good as new again.

The gameplay features are well-optimised and sorting the trash in the segregated dumpsters even rewards you cash for doing good (and costing you for wrong sorting, too). The tools you generally bring with you are also upgradable by spending the stars you get by how much completion you make for the stations. This game helps make feel satisfaction in cleaning up that it's one of the better, recent games I've played that involves destroying without "malicious" intents. (Die, wood trash, graffiti and broken toilet furnitures, ha ha!)

There is but one main feature which I'm no big fan of, just a matter of preferences, and that is furnishing! Carrying out the clean-up process is a welcome way to productively work up the stations but what breaks the flow for me is that you end up with nothing but having to add objects and furnitures in, instead. You see, I think it's a chore; browsing and picking whatever stuff the room requires of me to add into because it bogs the flow down in my careful selection. Sure, the stations will eventually have the look of servicable train stops, but... it's not as satisfying as cleaning them up! I know, there are some of you out there that actually get turned on by customizing the places by your choice of furnishing... More power to you! My only wish is that these were made optional AFTER acing the score on each location.

Still, it's fun with the rest of the features, making a change to the run-down locations while listening or watching some videos or podcasts. The tasks are varied, your tools are upgradeable and the gameplay core is largely satisfying, making for a relaxing, fun chore simulator. I'll have to take down the score for the personal preference to have the furnishing tasks optimized for flow's sake, or, made optional outside the scoring system.