NIMBY Rails on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.

NIMBY Rails is a early access, transportation and simulation game developed and published by Weird and Wry.
Released on January 26th 2021 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 2,014 reviews of which 1,807 were positive and 207 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 18.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified NIMBY Rails into these genres:

Early Access Transportation Simulation Economy Management Building Sandbox Politics Open World Singleplayer City Builder 2D Political Sim Strategy Capitalism Co-op Minimalist Trains Stylized Political

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 64bit
  • Processor: Dual core, 2 Ghz+
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD 5000
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 28 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Installing in FAT32 is not supported.

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
There's the typical dilemma: you get nice graphics (e.g. Transport Fever 2, Cities Skylines etc.), but the transportation system is very superficially implemented, and even with mods working around this, you can’t even remotely design what exists IRL for decades if not centuries. If you get frustrated by this and are willing to give up the eye candy, then NIMBY Rails is for you! Be warned, there is a step learning curve, but once you get the hang out of it, it’s quite amazing what you can design! The developers are quite open what is there and what is not (yet): It’s currently a sandbox, with limited economical challenges, but the roadmap looks very promising. Until then, prepare to sink hours in designing a railway network, figure out shifts for individual trains, have them park at night in the yard, deal with the different demand curves depending on daytime/weekday and enjoy watching your network transport passengers to their destinations!
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April 2025
If you are a train enthusiast, train lover, or heck you just love dynamic economy managing games this games for you abosultely I love it!
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March 2025
It is literally the autism simulator and thats why I love it.
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Nov. 2024
Simply the best transport tycoon game out there. Being able to play anywhere on the world or even the entire real world is great, and with every update it get's better and better, and the dev doesn't stop, he keeps working on it, and keeps working on it.
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Sept. 2024
a good passenger transportation game with advanced game mechanics that allow you to micromanage almost anything you want with your networks. Only downsides currently in my opinion are that there are no custom generated maps which also means the cities you server wont grow so all the transportation demand at the start of the game is all you'll ever have for your networks. It would also be nice if a function to automatically couple and decouple multiple units in a station was available to allow a more efficient usage of highly branching networks.
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Frequently Asked Questions

NIMBY Rails is currently priced at 18.49€ on Steam.

NIMBY Rails is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 18.49€ on Steam.

NIMBY Rails received 1,807 positive votes out of a total of 2,014 achieving a rating of 8.57.
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NIMBY Rails was developed and published by Weird and Wry.

NIMBY Rails is playable and fully supported on Windows.

NIMBY Rails is not playable on MacOS.

NIMBY Rails is not playable on Linux.

NIMBY Rails offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

NIMBY Rails includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

NIMBY Rails does not currently offer any DLC.

NIMBY Rails is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

NIMBY Rails does not support Steam Remote Play.

NIMBY Rails is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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NIMBY Rails
18.49€
8.6
1,807
207
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
168
Developer
Weird and Wry
Publisher
Weird and Wry
Release 26 Jan 2021
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