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.

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Developer Whoop Group's delightful wooden train set builder Tracks is poised to get even more charming, thanks to an incoming duo of DLC offerings - the first of which is themed around suburban expansion, free, and available now on Steam and Xbox One.

Tracks: The Train Set Game, if you've yet to be acquainted, takes its inspiration from the classic wooden train sets manufactured by the likes of Brio - delivering a genteel, but thoroughly engrossing, sandbox equivalent that's focussed on the simple pleasures of laying down track (to some beautiful piano accompaniment), then theming it up to the nines.

When Tracks launched out of early access last September, it already had a heap of gorgeously designed props to bring those builds to life - including town houses, quaint village shops, cars, roads, trees, fences, and animals - as well as more specialised elements, such as twinkling lights for nighttime sets, fireworks, and even bell-ringing music makers.

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Developer Whoop Group's thoroughly delightful wooden train set builder Tracks will be leaving Steam early access on 20th September, and it's coming to Xbox One on the same day.

Tracks: The Train Set Game (as it's more formally known) will have been ambling pleasantly through early access for just under two years come September's launch, and it's continued to remain one of my very favourite time-hoovers on PC throughout.

Inspired by the classic wooden train sets from the likes of Brio, Tracks is a genteel, but utterly engrossing sandbox experience, focussed almost exclusively on the simple pleasures of plopping down track, them theming it up using a huge selection of beautifully designed props.

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Wonderfully serene wooden train set simulator Tracks has just received another big update, this time adding an array of new building blocks, from rocks and planes to scuba divers and bikes, alongside very welcome controller support.

Tracks, if you've yet to be introduced, is a genteel, locomotive-themed sandbox experience, inspired by the classic wooden train sets created by the likes of Brio.

In its present early access state, Tracks is mostly about the simple pleasures of placing down track then using the game's ever-expanding collection of charmingly designed buildings, scenery, and props to bring the world around it to life. You can even hop on a train and view your creation in first-person, picking up passengers and tooting your whistle along the way.

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Delightfully wholesome toy train set simulator Tracks has just received a big new update, adding farm animals and, perhaps more importantly, a working train whistle.

Tracks, for the uninitiated, is a genteel, locomotive-themed sandbox experience inspired by Brio's iconic wooden train sets.

In its current Steam early access guise, Tracks is mostly focussed around the simple pleasures of laying down track and then theming it up using the game's steadily expanding array of beautifully designed props. It's an absolutely lovely looking thing too, making it a wonderfully pleasing, and surprisingly relaxing, way to while away some time.

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Tracks, the wonderful toy train set builder from developer Whoop Group is getting a big free Christmassy update tomorrow.

Tracks is one of the unheralded gems of 2017 as far as I'm concerned; it's a simple-to-use, but gloriously engaging construction game based on the classic wooden Brio train sets.

Truthfully, it doesn't get much more complex that simply plopping down tracks, decorating them with intricately designed scenery, then watching your train go about its unhurried business, but it's a wonderfully relaxing way to tinker away some time.

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