‘Toy Trains VR’ (PSVR2) Review

Developer: Something Random | Platform: PSVR2 |

Playtime and Platinum: 4:30

The PSVR2 launched in February 2023, it became more publicly available on May 12th 2023. I bought mine in July 2023 but it took me until April 2024 to actually play anything. Just the way it goes. To christen my VR2 journey, I didn’t go with Sony’sown Horizon: Call of the Mountain but instead with a new game from the developers of Superhot – Toy Trains. As far as good VR introductions go, you’d be hard pressed to beat this one.

You play as the young child of a couple of scientists (or similar), they’re away on a work trip and have left you at your grandparents. As a deal sweetener, your dad, he lets you play with his old train set which is where the game takes place. in it’s entirety. There’s no real story, but the premise of each of the games levels is dictated by the postcards received from your parents in between levels - things that are happening while they’re away, things the family plan on doing when they get back, it’s really cute.

The game is a puzzle game, an incredibly laid back one - there’s no time limits, perfect solution or limit on the parts the player can place - the only limit is space on the board. So what is your objective? Each of the games 10 stages has a construction site somewhere on it. The player has to connect each node (house, mine, windmill what have you) to the Construction site. This is done in stages - when the first ones are connected, more and more spawn. The end goal is still the same, but you’ll have to delete and redesign parts of your track. When I played, I tried doing everything in one loop which you didn’t need to, but it was fun.

You start with a decent range of basic track pieces, straights and turns of different lengths but each level introduces new elements (after a mini tutorial stage) that really mix things up. These include ramps, tunnels, bridges and even setting new spawn points for your trains. Since the game has no limits, you can design your track exactly how you like (as long as you’re actually beating the objectives).

While I couldn’t hum any of the music now after the fact, but it fit the cosy vibes of the game. Visual and sound design was also great, with it’s cartoon adjacent visual and snappy sounds. It may be more on the end of the headset rather than the game, but I really felt immersed (Especially since I wasn’t having to constantly adjust myself during playing).

The game got an update either the day I played or the day after which adds another 12 levels, more than doubling the games content. I didn’t get around to playing it but it’s a free update and more content!

I feel like Toy Trains is a perfect VR game and a great way to ease somebody into Virtual Reality. On top of that, it’s just a great game on it’s own merits - a fun cozy puzzler. A VR must play.