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Railroads Online
Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
47 of the 82 reviews raise this.
“Not Recommended (for now) I want to love Railroads Online. The concept is basically catnip if you’re into steam, logging lines, and building your own little rail empire. But the execution is… rough, and not in a…”
“So I loved this game, A lot. But they kept doing stupid things that made the game worse and worse. Resetting progress, useless changes, and raising pricetags for a game that tbh is abandonware. The game hasnt had a…”
“It was good but seems to be abandonded”
3 of the 82 reviews raise this.
26 of the 82 reviews raise this · 12 of them still recommend the game.
“I made the mistake of backing this during Early Access. It was a fun premise during EA, that we bought into it, with the promice of constant updates and new content. It's 2026, and the game has not had an update in 2…”
“This game is abandoned and broken, I literally cannot couple cars together properly which is wild considering its an essential part of the game. There are mobile games that are better then this”
“Game still plays like an early access, ganky, buggy, and in much need of QOL work. Best way to describe it, is it feels like they slapped together a bunch of rushed game mechanics so that they could call it completed,…”
17 of the 82 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“I made the mistake of backing this during Early Access. It was a fun premise during EA, that we bought into it, with the promice of constant updates and new content. It's 2026, and the game has not had an update in 2…”
“This game is abandoned and broken, I literally cannot couple cars together properly which is wild considering its an essential part of the game. There are mobile games that are better then this”
“Game still plays like an early access, ganky, buggy, and in much need of QOL work. Best way to describe it, is it feels like they slapped together a bunch of rushed game mechanics so that they could call it completed,…”
12 of the 82 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I made the mistake of backing this during Early Access. It was a fun premise during EA, that we bought into it, with the promice of constant updates and new content. It's 2026, and the game has not had an update in 2…”
“as far as money grabs go. its as basic as it got had promis but i can name a game thats in progress thats proably a thousend times better. hell derail valley is already more then enough and ya dont need to lay the rails…”
“This game is abandoned and broken, I literally cannot couple cars together properly which is wild considering its an essential part of the game. There are mobile games that are better then this”
5 of the 82 reviews raise this.
“as far as money grabs go. its as basic as it got had promis but i can name a game thats in progress thats proably a thousend times better. hell derail valley is already more then enough and ya dont need to lay the rails…”
“Game still plays like an early access, ganky, buggy, and in much need of QOL work. Best way to describe it, is it feels like they slapped together a bunch of rushed game mechanics so that they could call it completed,…”
“They don't update there games . MP is trash . trains DR . I hate cash grab games”
4 of the 82 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“So I loved this game, A lot. But they kept doing stupid things that made the game worse and worse. Resetting progress, useless changes, and raising pricetags for a game that tbh is abandonware. The game hasnt had a…”
“They don't update there games . MP is trash . trains DR . I hate cash grab games”
“Mosca locomotives can only be fueled by the host of a server. Locomotive water levels and capacities can sometimes only be viewed by the host of the server. Snow does not place over trestles, and sometimes does not…”
Counted across 82 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 74.6% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“It's great for people who like building intretract rail layauts and running beautilful modelled early American locos on it. Unfortunately, there has been no more development of this game for nearly two years. Which is a real shame.”
— a player, Steam review · 5,178 hrs played“very fun just never played with friends :(”
— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs played“The bugs were tolerable in early access and the game had great potential. Now that the game is fully released, the bugs are unacceptable. Multiplayer has been broken for over a year and there has been no communication from the devs. This game has now been abandoned. Either wait…”
— a player, Steam review · 198 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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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 | Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Trains · Multiplayer · Online Co-Op · Open World · Automobile Sim · Building · Physics · Sandbox · Driving · Immersive Sim · Team-Based · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America |
| Achievements | 32 |
| Official site | https://www.railroadsonline.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11 64-bit Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-8100 or similar Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (2 GB VRAM) / AMD Radeon R9 285 (2 GB VRAM) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 6000 MB available space