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Rolling Line
Build your own model railway tracks and scenery or explore pre-made maps, including 1000s of player-made maps and mods on the Steam Workshop! Play solo and in multiplayer, both in virtual reality and on PC!
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
40 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“Able to Plow through giant engines and their consist with a Tiny Shunter, love this game.”
“it is fun and you can use your createtivity you can drive soveit deseis to american electric locos”
7 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“awesome if you love model trains but don't have the multi thousand dollar budget for it, good at satisfying some cravings”
“Great substitute for real-life model railroading. No expensive prices or outrageous fees. 11/10!”
“im no longer in debt due to ho scale models”
7 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“Pros: -Nice low-poly graphics -Runs well on low-end PCs -Nice assortment of rolling stock -Lots of mods Cons: -Very *interesting* crash physics -Nearly impossible to build a layout on PC -Suboptimal mod quality control”
“One of the best Games ever made. In IDK how many years I've had this, there are still updates and fixes and new things constantly. Originally I played PC then when I got VR I thought hell, I'll give it a go.. It was an…”
“THE BEST TRAIN GAME EVER!!!! In this game you can build your dream railway if you don't have space in your house! You can mod the game, and drive trains in multiplayer. You can even make turntables! BUY IT NOW!!!”
4 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“I had no idea this existed and was impressed and indulged in a world of wonder, Ive already learned how to make my own little model railroads and have had so much fun running many types of locomotives and rollingstock…”
3 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“THE BEST TRAIN GAME EVER!!!! In this game you can build your dream railway if you don't have space in your house! You can mod the game, and drive trains in multiplayer. You can even make turntables! BUY IT NOW!!!”
4 of the 102 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Kinda bad cant even play with my other traisn like metrolink and other”
4 of the 102 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Pros: -Nice low-poly graphics -Runs well on low-end PCs -Nice assortment of rolling stock -Lots of mods Cons: -Very *interesting* crash physics -Nearly impossible to build a layout on PC -Suboptimal mod quality control”
“Neat! A bit clunky to work with, but very fun once you get the basics down.”
3 of the 102 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Bought based off the Overwhelmingly Positive reviews and have been met with a quite buggy tutorial. Maybe the game was more made for VR, rather than desktop. I'm not sure. Was pretty hopeful with this one. Edit: I've…”
“cool game. but can you improve crash physics a little bit”
“Pros: -Nice low-poly graphics -Runs well on low-end PCs -Nice assortment of rolling stock -Lots of mods Cons: -Very *interesting* crash physics -Nearly impossible to build a layout on PC -Suboptimal mod quality control”
Counted across 102 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 96.0% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“this game is epic, it soothes my severe autism. 11/10”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“The new terrain system update is so good I'm writing a positive review for it. So much of the game comes together because of how quickly you can mold the terrain and create layouts without having to learn Blender.”
— a player, Steam review · 51 hrs played“Even Though when posting this review (which I could have done a long time ago) I still think there are some things that the game could have, not sure what though. In general this game is Awesome Even though I only bouht Rolling Line at the very end of 2022 Ive being kinda…”
— a player, Steam review · 1,568 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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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Rolling Line in real life! v6.2
This is the first time I've ever done a proper public demo of Rolling Line at an event like this and it was an amazing experience. So many people got to try the game for the first time, and I even ran
Performance optimizations! v6.1
Since computer parts are getting horrifyingly expensive it's more important than ever that games are able to run as well as possible on low end hardware. I love the fact that Rolling Line is a train g
Scales & Gauges! v6.0
With this update you can now fully customize how large the track, trains, props and player character are in the world. So it will finally be possible to accurately model real-world model railway scale
Custom model railway scales/gauges coming soon!
Coming up within the next few weeks is the much anticipated scales & gauges update! I'm announcing this now because the update is well into testing but still has a lot of work to do, and I want people
Color editing, drawer improvements and more! v5.48
Every now and then it's great to do a "spring cleaning" kind of update, that includes lots of quality-of-life improvements and fixes a ton of small jobs I've had on my to-do list for ages. This update
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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 | Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Trains · Simulation · Sandbox · Level Editor · Moddable · Transportation · Casual · Indie · VR · Singleplayer · Building · Relaxing (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Full controller support · Tracked Controller Support |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Official site | http://www.gaugepunk.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7/8/10 Processor: Intel i5 range or similar Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 980 or similar (VR) Any low-end graphics card (PC) Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: N/A VR Support: SteamVR Additional Notes: Running on PC (without VR) is possible on very low end systems.