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Steel Artery: Train City Builder
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Don't listen to the Negative Nellies, the game is fun and challenging and offers a few fresh or at least rare takes on the city/colony management genre. The citizens are totally autonomous and you cannot control them directly. Unlike most management games you are actually a…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played“It need nore work , The Developer also promised to give more and intensively apologise for his early launch. but so far The game is good with environment and mecanics. Even though it need more work. It's still a worth it to buy. It's not buggy and npc actually work how it…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“I didn't see any "Early Access" page, so I thought this game was done. It is currently not very playable. Balancing is not very good, especially in the early game. Completing the first quests yield no reward, and you apparently need to get halfway through the tech tree before…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 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 2026-09-26.
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.
Dev Update
Hello everyone! I know it has been a long time since the last update, so I want to be clear: Steel Artery has not been abandoned, and work on the game continues. Unfortunately, the game’s launch was w
What Stations Will Look Like in the Game
Hello everyone! Work on optimization is in full swing. I significantly underestimated the complexity of moving parts of the game to C++, and I'm still working on it. However, I hope to release an opti
I'm Still Working on Optimization and Logistics
Hello everyone! First of all, sorry — the next patch is taking a little longer than expected. Initially, I wanted to quickly improve performance by moving some calculations to native C++ and release t
Fixed. Changes in 1.0.6 and a few words about what’s next
Wow… seriously, wow. I’m genuinely overwhelmed by the amount of support and warmth in your messages. It became the fuel I needed to continue this difficult journey (instead of coal and dirty water ^_^
Train crashed into the wall
Hello everyone! Well… this hurt a lot. The game launched with good reviews, and within just a couple of days dropped to 62% positive. Honestly, over these last few days I went through every stage poss
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox · Building · Economy · Trains · Management · Survival · Base Building · Automation · 2D · Steampunk (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Adjustable Text Size · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Mouse Only Option · #category_playable_at_your_own_pace |
| Languages | English, Russian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Japanese |
| Achievements | 35 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 (64 bit) Processor: Dual Core 2 GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (AMD or NVIDIA equivalent) DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 1 GB available space