Train Simulator - LGV: Marseille - Avignon Route Add-On (DLC)

Let's be precise about what this DLC actually is, because the title will mislead you. The LGV Marseille-Avignon branding suggests a faithful recreation of France's high-speed corridor, but the developer here is a small Japanese studio, and the route described is a fictional one - over 70 km of track with varied scenery, tunnels, and single-track sections. That gap between expectation and reality is the first thing any buyer needs to sit with before clicking purchase. As a sim add-on, the core pitch is straightforward: you drive railcars across a custom route with multiple track layouts and changing environments. The promise of future content - additional train types and single-track operations - is laid out in Early Access fashion, meaning you are buying a foundation, not a finished product. For anyone used to the iterative cadence of train sim DLC development, that context matters enormously. The route length of 70-plus km gives you something to work with, but depth of scenario design and timetable complexity are not confirmed in the available data, and I won't invent what isn't documented. The review count sits at three, with a 100% positive score - a number so small it tells you almost nothing statistically. There is no Metacritic rating. This is not a title that has been stress-tested by a large community, and the absence of a mod ecosystem discussion or active forum presence makes long-term replayability genuinely hard to forecast. For a strategy-and-sim player who lives by community patches and user-created content, that silence is a yellow flag, not necessarily a red one, but worth noting. Who might actually enjoy this? Collectors of Train Simulator route add-ons who specifically want Japanese-developed fictional routes will find something idiosyncratic here. If you enjoy the meditative side of railcar driving - watching scenery scroll, managing stops, running clean approaches into stations - the core loop can be rewarding regardless of whether the route is geographically authentic. The tunnel variety and track-type changes suggest at least some effort toward visual and operational diversity. Newcomers to train sims should be aware that Train Simulator as a platform has its own learning curve, and an Early Access DLC from a low-profile developer is not where you want to start that journey. Bottom line from a sim-depth perspective: the decision-making layer here is thin compared to heavy operations sims. You are not managing timetables across a network or optimizing consist loads. You are driving, which is a valid and relaxing pursuit, but it is a narrow one. Wait for the content roadmap to deliver on its single-track and multi-train promises before committing if you need mechanical breadth. Diego, Scout Team