FIRST CLASS: ALL ABOARD THE ORIENT EXPRESS!

From the designer of Russian Railroads (which could well have been in this list). This is a card game about building up train carriages, and then having your conductor service the line – with a twist of your choice. This could be a bit of murder, or celebrity pandering, or luggage management, if you mix in the right deck – which can offer a kind of mini-expansion experience right out of the box. A huge amount of depth for a smallish package, and well worth hunting down on the second hand market. Plus, the dinky board that you’ll expand out into multiple lines and use to upgrade aspects of your lines by drafting cards is charming in itself.