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Sid Meier's Railroads!
Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“At this point, Sid Meier's Railroads is a casual game for me. When bored or when I need to silence my brain for a bit, I fire up the French scenario (which is the easiest) and play with a random city and geography layout. I don't even exit out of the game on one of my computers,…”
— a player, Steam review · 38,343 hrs played“I owned the original DVD release version of this game. I played it a lot back then. Even nowadays, every few years, I come back to it and enjoy another round. I can safely say, that for me this game has stood the test of time, with one small caveat: The standard maps are quite…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“Unplayable, crashes at least once an hour.”
— a player, Steam review · 40 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:34 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Trains · Strategy · Management · Economy · Simulation · Singleplayer · Multiplayer · Real-Time with Pause · Casual · Building · Classic · Historical (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.2kgames.com/railroads/railroads.html |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum Windows 2000, Windows XP 1.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent 512 MB RAM 64 MB Video card with hardware pixel and vertex shaders (GeForce 3, Radeon 8500 or better) DirectX 7 compatible sound card 1.7 GB of free disc drive space