Disclaimer: I know nothing about trains. I also know nothing about train games. Oh, I’ve played Ticket to Ride, because everybody has played Ticket to Ride, and when I was nine my dad tried to introduce me to the 1977 title Rail Baron, which is a bit confusing because I don’t think they’d even invented trains back then, so it must have been a science fiction game, and either way it fried my brain and left me the perplexed mess you see before you now.

Here’s the thing: I don’t like trains. I think they’re smelly, and over-warm, and I get motion sick riding them even though they travel in mostly straight lines. I get nauseated just thinking about them. This means I’m uniquely unqualified to talk about String Railway. So instead, today I’m going to tell you about a nifty little game called String Doomworms.

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