rtcvb32: Could be worse. Could be a $60 game plus always online-drm, plus a season pass, loot boxes, microtransactions and DLC in order to get the '
full experience'......
drmike: Try Train Simulator 2016.
Three grand.
edit: Oops, it;s $7,663 now for the 2018 version:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/Train_Simulator/
Wow.
I read your post, and my first thought is "For three grand, I'd better be getting a flipping real life, full size train. And for 7.5 grand, it had better be delivered to my front yard in pristine condition."
So I check the linked page, and I can't see where it is anything close to that. Only a little over 100.
Then I finally locate the DLC link. I start scrolling, and "wow that's a lot of DLC". Then I keep scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling, and "holy crap, that is a LOT of DLC!!", and still scrolling, and scrolling, and...