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You and your fellow railroaders are the lifeblood of your railroad, just like it is the lifeblood of the communities it serves. Switch cars at industries. Keep people moving while running local passenger trains. Run trains with a purpose in transition era Appalachia – in Railroader!
Railroader is a simulation, trains and transportation game
developed and published by Giraffe Lab LLC.
Released on December 07th 2023 is available on Windows and Steam Deck.
It has received 3,349 reviews of which 3,215 were positive and 134 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Railroader into these genres:
Simulation
Trains
Transportation
Automobile Sim
Open World
3D
Immersive Sim
Cinematic
First-Person
Realistic
Top-Down
Atmospheric
Economy
Relaxing
Physics
Steampunk
Co-op
Sandbox
Third Person
Driving
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1660 6GB
- Storage: 8 GB available space
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To start, I'm really liking this game. The core game loop is fun and mildly addicting, but it's probably not for everyone. If you're coming to this game looking for a detailed simulation on driving trains, then you might want to look elsewhere. While there is a first person view, and you can manipulate some of the levers and such, the driving sim isn't particularly detailed. Derail Valley, Run 8, or Train Sim World might be more up your alley if that's what you're looking for. This game is really more of a railroad management game. You'll spend most of you're time routing trains to where they need to go, to pick up freight, move passengers, or transfer freight to an interchange for another railroad to pick up. There is progression where you're trying to expand your railroad while trying to manage assets and finances. My biggest complaint is that the game can become quite grindy after awhile. Once you unlock large chunks of the map and open up several industries, it can take literal hours to complete a full day's worth of switching. The game is intentionally slow in this regard, some find this relaxing and fun while others might find it a bit tedious (I fall somewhere in the middle). The game also needs some optimization. Switching between consists while you're switching cars will create stutter and drop you're FPS while the game loads terrain and other assets. There's a lot of information in the game, but it can be somewhat hard to find sometimes.
It has the potential to be a fun game, though I would say it tries to do a few too many things at once and might not be entirely sure what it wants to be. It's a little strange to play as a character who owns a railroad, operates the actual train down to pulling the levers, negotiates contracts and also physically has to oil every train car. One ongoing problem with the game is that a lot of basic functionality isn't there, i.e. things like getting your train to actually follow a timetable (there is a feature for passenger timetables in the game, but in the end you still actually have to make the train do everything manually, the timetable feature just puts passengers in the station at the right time; and you can't schedule freight trains). You can't set your train to leave the yard on time to pick up passengers at a platform, you have to send it there manually, and that combined with having to turn every train around manually really limits the usefulness of the auto-engineer modes. Running more than one train at a time is also really difficult since, again, you need to micromanage every train and there are no useful scheduling features, so there's a pretty low limit to how much you can really scale up your railroad. The developers have provided some good updates that make the game a bit more playable, but they seem to be focusing first on adding new features instead of making the core game a bit more complete. Following from that, the game has major performance issues. My GPU runs much hotter in Railroader than it does when running current AAA tiles (i.e. Pragmata) that are a lot more graphically intensive and RAM usage is always very high, and this in a game that in its current state looks like a PC title from 20 years ago. There can be literally nothing moving on the map and GPU usage will be at 90%. Draw distance is very short and it takes a long time for the environment to load when moving around the map. It's also possible to scroll off the map and under the environment. Obviously this is a pre-release build, but it would be kind of nice if the developers would focus a little more on making the basic game work than adding new features in the updates, and the glacial pace at which updates have been released in the past 2 years isn't encouraging. Still - a fun game even in its current state, though difficult to play for more than short blocks of time because of the performance issues. Could be a lot of fun if the performance and rendering issues get fixed and they make the computer capable of driving trains in a more meaningful way.
As a game, Railroader has a lot going for it, and, as you can see from the number of hours I have invested in playing it, I have had a great time with it in its current pre-release form. The game's basic scenario is that you are rebuilding a mid-19th century railroad that has suffered the loss of most of its network due to catastrophic flooding. Your job as the player is to rebuild the network. This path is clearly marked for you by a succession of milestone achievements, the completion of which gradually expands the map, enhances the number of industries and destinations you can serve and grows the railroad. Although the game includes constraints imposed by the cost of equipment, the need for water and coal (and later diesel fuel), and maintenance of equipment, this really is not a game like Railroad Tycoon or Transport Fever. The financial obstacles, while real, are not especially difficult to deal with and the goal of the game is not to create a coast-to-coast empire. Instead, what Railroader excels at is making you plan for the efficient distribution and collection of your rolling stock. Each day begins with several dozen new cars arriving at the interchange point, the zone that the game defines as where your local railroad interacts with the rest of the game universe. Those arriving cars have to be moved to locations all around the map, while at the same time cars that are already in place and ready to be moved out have to be brought back to the interchange zone. It's an amazingly simple idea but also a compelling one, because the fun of the game consists of finding efficient ways to handle the various yard operations that are required to get the rolling stock where it needs to be. You also can run passenger lines, and plans are in the works to add mail into the mix. At the same time, you need to keep an eye on the levels of coal and water in your steam engines, because running out of either one at the wrong time can lead to a annoyingly long trip by another engine to pick up the stranded engine and drag it back to where it can be serviced. Still, it IS an early release game, and some of that shows in how it plays. The artwork is not completed, for example, so you sometimes find yourself dropping off cars at a non-existent "chemical plant" or mining operation. The function of signals and automatic routing in the game is also quite buggy at present. (It's all stuff that you can devise workarounds for, so no real worries there.) I have also become a little discouraged at the pace of movement toward the 1.0 release. Instead of cleaning up what is already there, the small development team has chosen to implement a new system of track maintenance. It's a great idea, to be sure, but is that what is most needed now? I have to wonder. Even so, please DO NOT let any of my quibbles and reservations deter you from buying this game and enjoying it. Take a look once more at the number of hours I have played it. Any game that I have played for more than 600 hours, whatever its little flaws and blemishes, is a game that I have more than recovered the purchase price from. And I will be back whenever the developers have polished it sufficiently for its 1.0 version.
Nice every 10 years a game manages to get it right; some perfect blend.. where something simple turns addictive.. this game manages to do that; like a work of art. Game Design for connaisseurs. I love every detail of this one… you start to live in this valley, know every bend, hate certain sections, forgetting a handbrake in a copper mine in Alarka… waiting for updates is excruciating because you know it will be a good. This game is an expensive wine in some small cellar somewhere shred by wine lovers. I sing the highest praise for this designer. I bow to thee… take your time. Go slow. And make this better. I will wait… even in Long Access
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Frequently Asked Questions
Railroader is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
No, Railroader is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Railroader received 3,215 positive votes out of a total of 3,349 achieving an impressive rating of 9.20.
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Railroader was developed and published by Giraffe Lab LLC.
Yes, Railroader is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Railroader is not playable on MacOS.
No, Railroader is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Railroader is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
This information about Railroader is not available yet.
No, Railroader does not support VR.
Railroader offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Railroader includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
No, Railroader does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Railroader does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Railroader does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Railroader 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.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Railroader.
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Last Updates| Steam data | 27 September 2026 21:45 UTC |
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| SteamSpy data | 16 October 2026 12:40 UTC |
| Steam price | 27 October 2026 04:12 UTC |
| Steam reviews | 18 October 2026 21:50 UTC |
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
486
Developer
Giraffe Lab LLC
Publisher
Giraffe Lab LLC
Release
07 Dec 2023
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