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For the first time in railroad simulation, play as both the driver and company director! Take the controls of your locomotives and grow your railway empire by negotiating deals and developing your network.
Train Life: A Railway Simulator is a simulation, family friendly and realistic game
developed by Simteract
and published by Nacon.
Released on August 25th 2022 is available on Windows and Steam Deck
in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil and Turkish.
It has received 1,455 reviews of which 917 were positive and 538 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.2 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.36€ on Eneba.
The Steam community has classified Train Life: A Railway Simulator into these genres:
Simulation
Family Friendly
Realistic
Open World
Singleplayer
Atmospheric
Management
Transportation
Trains
Casual
Immersive Sim
Driving
Relaxing
Economy
Controller
Strategy
Job Simulator
Early Access
Immersive
3D
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Train Life: A Railway Simulator:
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| English | |||
| German | |||
| French | |||
| Italian | |||
| Korean | |||
| Spanish - Spain | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Traditional Chinese | |||
| Russian | |||
| Japanese | |||
| Polish | |||
| Dutch | |||
| Turkish | |||
| Portuguese - Brazil |
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.5 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X @ 3.7 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570
- DirectX: Version 10
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Behold the game that is Euro Train Arcade3000! A game than its reputation suggests. You probably have seen it in sale very often and you might get the idea that it is shovelware - inferior to the big name train simulators with their gargantuan piles of DLC, their trademark attention to detail, massive filesizes and single digit framerates, that we come to expect from the Train Worlds and the Railroad Simulators. This one doesn't have any of this! What you get is an immediately accessible, seamless open world, where you can simply drive trains to your hearts content. It is Euro Truck on Rails! Control scheme is easy to pick up -just a few buttons to memorize - and you will zip all across Europe in no time. Take ressources to refineries, haul passengers to places or just go sightseeing and unlock destinations for your hireling train drivers. Level up your guy to unlock better locomotives, upgrades, cabin decorations and passive skills that grant economic buffs. Devs also took some elements from Railroad Tycoon apparently, as in Industries and Destinations gradually level up their operation with every ressource delivered. All fine and dandy for chipping away at some long term goals. One can see they put alot of effort in making the cities and places kind of resemble their real world counterparts, with landmarks and some nice setpieces along the routes. The actual driving is fun to do. You manage your corridor on the fly, flipping railroads switches with a single button press. Negotiate slopes, avoid broken or oncoming trains and honk at crossing animals. The UGLY Part: The whole railway Simulation part is a complete failure. Signage, scale, speed limits and uhm 'traffic' is hillariously bad. The map has zero information, no speedlimits, no info on the occasional construction site, no info on which rails are occupied or god forbid the placement of signals. Segments where you are supposed to decelerate/ accelerate are generally way too short. There is often no way in hell to brake the train within the alloted space. This can be very annoying due to the fact how traffic works in this game. There is NO TRAFFIC, or parked rolling material for that matter! The only trains you will ever encounter are either oncoming train or broken train. These simply spawn into your corridor at random. The player is then meant to quickly flip a switch to go around it, or in case the other train is actually moving, stop on time to not crash into it and its alloted block. Since the map or the signs are so devoid of information, it's a guessing game what to do. In general: Just do the most reckless thing! It is usually the best course of action. Did I mention that the game rewards speeding? The way the economy and XP system is designed, you are incentivized to ignore all limits and fines and go at full speed alll the time since that will multiply your rewards. Just memorize the parts where you could derail! Train Life also has a scale issue, as mentioned the distance betweeen blocks and switches often leads to problems with speed or has you flip switches with the Q key as if you were rotating Tetrominos. Inclines and declines are generally unrealisticly steep. Map objects like tunnels are gargantuan in profile and could likely fit 4-5 trains on top of each other. Trackside decor has a tendency to just pop up right on the tracks, since theres no collision you can ignore that tho. Sound and Music: Sound is extremely barebones. Engines are way too low, now sound of the wheels at all, not even the iconic sound of the railroad ties. There also some elevator music. Final verdict: This game is probably a nice talking piece for Railroad fans, since it is comicly agnostic to actual Railway Operation. It is only a Simulator in the loosest sense of the word. What it has going for it are the decent performance and the lack of DLC. It is a 2 Dollar game, so It still gets a thumbs up.
I almost skipped this one because of some of the reviews, but for $2 during the Summer Sale I figured it was worth the gamble. Turns out, I wouldn't have been mad at it for retail! It's a fun little indie sim built around running a railway company, progressing through a career and skill system, and, of course, driving a loco. More or less an RPG about being a train engineer that owns a company, pretty much like what it says it is. I am going to do something new and attack the most negative review. I get some of the negativity, and some of it is true, but it is clearly an early access review or before any game updates, because it is flat out wrong in multiple places. We get lights two ahead, and I can see a blue then red indication for an oncoming train, as an example. At a switch, when changing lane, it updates the lights to tell me if the track is clear ahead. Uphill/downhill grades absolutely very much affect speed. There is absolutely a way to turn around a train without using the service center, and also plenty of Y's to turn around yourself. I've had zero issues with saving in 100 hours. There is a matrix of skills and 30 upgrades for you, and your employees also have skill trees. if it ever was fair, it is not a fair review of the current game state. My take, it starts a bit slow, and some things don't line up with reality or the more realistic driving simulators, but it doesn't bother me for what it is trying to do. Couple of things can get annoying like oncoming trains and speed limit changes near switches, and running through interchanges at 120 kph is basically a QTE minigame. Randomly derailing at switches for no apparent reason when driving the speed limit can get old after 100 hours. Can feel buggy at times, and it's still mostly enjoyable to drive, IMO. The career mode gets fairly deep, too. At 20 hours of play, I completed a small fraction of scenarios in career mode, did not have even 20% of the map unlocked, had yet to level up an industry, and had 25% of the achievements. 100 hours in, I had all the scenarios done (and DLC), almost all of the map discovered, almost the entire map to level 2, and 75% of the achievements. Still going. If you like trains, management games, and indies, I'd definitely recommend giving it a shot.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Train Life: A Railway Simulator is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
No, Train Life: A Railway Simulator is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Train Life: A Railway Simulator received 917 positive votes out of a total of 1,455 achieving a rating of 6.16.
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Train Life: A Railway Simulator was developed by Simteract and published by Nacon.
Yes, Train Life: A Railway Simulator is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Train Life: A Railway Simulator is not playable on MacOS.
No, Train Life: A Railway Simulator is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Train Life: A Railway Simulator 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 Train Life: A Railway Simulator is not available yet.
No, Train Life: A Railway Simulator does not support VR.
Train Life: A Railway Simulator is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 2 DLCs available for Train Life: A Railway Simulator. Explore additional content available for Train Life: A Railway Simulator on Steam.
No, Train Life: A Railway Simulator does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Train Life: A Railway Simulator does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Train Life: A Railway Simulator 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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Release
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