V is for Vintage vroom. If anything is likely to lure me back to open wheel sim racing, it’s the work of Assetto Corsa enrichers, Historic Sim Studios. Using their payware and gratis race cars and circuits, it’s possible to recreate the wild youth of the sport that eventually became F1.

W is for Warbird and weapon bonanza

Since Tiny Combat Arena gained Steam Workshop support last week, adding new stores and flyables has been child’s play. Clicking the subscribe button on the Tiny Weapon Shop page bolsters the sim’s arsenal by over 350 bomb and missile types, and doing the same on the Global Skies Collection page instantly gives you 28 alternatives to the default Harrier.

X is for Xtremely detailed German cities

Y is for Y are there rainbows in Liftoff at the moment?

‘Leprechaun Madness’, my latest Steam achievement, was a reward for finding and buzzing pots o’ gold in dangerously diverting drone sim Liftoff. To celebrate St Patrick’s Day, LuGus added five treasure troves to each of the 18 official maps. Locating all of the pots (one of which is helpfully signposted with a rainbow) on small maps like ‘straw bale’ is relatively easy, but in sprawling environments like lava-warmed ‘Surtur’, it takes eagle eyes and dogged detective work. Rainbows and gold vanish later today which is a pity. Hunting hidden objects with quadcopters is such fun I reckon it deserves a permanent place in the sim.

Z is for Zwolle to Groningen

TSW5 will be getting its first official Dutch route shortly. The north Netherlands eight-station, 107-kilometre line will come with a timetable consisting of 339 driveable services, a fair number of which will involve iconic ‘Koplopers’. As the Dutch railway signaling system was “designed to be one of the simplest in Europe” semiotic acclimatisation shouldn’t take long.