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Railroad Tycoon 3
Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo i
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Works on Win 8.1, follow this thread http://steamcommunity.com/app/7610/discussions/0/846944689739633056/. Works on Win 10 follow this thread https://steamcommunity.com/app/7610/discussions/0/535152511341175723/ Post #12: http://hawkdawg.com/rrt/rrt3/Xtras/ < here you can find…”
— a player, Steam review · 39 hrs played“The system requirements of this game confuse me. It says that it will not run on Windows Vista or Windows 7, but it's running fine for me on Windows 7 and I didn't have to do anything to make it work. I simply installed it and it worked. Now, to the game. I really enjoyed…”
— a player, Steam review · 77 hrs played“Don't get me wrong, I love this game. However this is another case of steam selling you something knowing full well it won't run "out the box." Users of modern systems will almost certainly need to download a modded config file just to run, and even then expect frequent crashes.”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Management · Strategy · Trains · Simulation · Singleplayer · Economy · Real-Time with Pause · Classic · Building · Sandbox · Resource Management · Historical (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Windows 2000/XP (only), 400 mhz, 128 MB RAM, 1.2 GB Free Disk Space, 16 MB 3D Video Card, mouse, and keyboard, DirectX compatible sound card with speakers/headphones recommended.