TICKET TO RIDE: EUROPE

In preparation for the game’s Western-themed Legacy release later this year, we take a trip with the world’s fastest selling train game

Matthew Vernall

Hopefully, the answer is ‘yes.’ Yes, you have played Ticket to Ride in one of its many forms over the last nearly 20 years. But a weird thing I keep finding in gaming communities are people who haven’t played it. ‘I don’t play train games,’ ‘I don’t play beginner games anymore,’ ‘never heard of it.’ That last one in particular really shook me. Never heard of it? The franchise has sold over ten million copies! When a game has sold this well, but still struggles to get mainstream attention, something has fundamentally gone wrong. Maybe ‘trains’ have too burdensome a reputation, or perhaps the antiquated setting gives off an undesirable ‘old school’ vibe. Regardless, I feel it is my responsibility to give this game a greater presence, so to those…

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