Developer Whoop Group’s thoroughly charming sandbox builder Tracks: The Train Set Game has a Switch release date, and will be pulling up to Nintendo’s platform on 24th November.
Tracks, if you’re unfamiliar, takes its cue from the classic wooden train sets from the likes of Brio, presenting players with a mountain of adorably wrought track parts and scenery props – from bushes and buildings to cars and animals – with which to create the diorama of their dreams.
Those of an especially creative nature can even utilise the likes of fireworks, twinkling lights for nighttime sets, customisable fog and terrain, and trackside bells to create little musical ditties.
Tracks isn’t a game in the traditional sense, given that it ditches traditional goals and objectives to encourage unhindered creativity, but it’s still a delightfully engrossing, and blissfully genteel experience, focussing on the simple pleasures of plopping down track and waving away slightly alarming chunks of time in a hypnotic haze of scenery tweaking.