Railway Empire 2

Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.

Railway Empire 2 is a simulation, strategy and trains game developed by Gaming Minds Studios and published by Kalypso Media.
Released on May 25th 2023 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish and Korean.

It has received 1,981 reviews of which 1,432 were positive and 549 were negative resulting in a rating of 7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 49.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Railway Empire 2 into these genres:

Simulation Strategy Trains Management Transportation Sandbox Economy Resource Management Building Exploration America City Builder Historical Western Trading Crafting Co-op Singleplayer Tutorial Immersive Sim

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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 10 (64 bit)
Processor: 4 core | Intel i5-3450 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 4 GB VRAM | Nvidia GTX 780 | Radeon RX 480
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 40 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card with latest drivers
Additional Notes: DirectX Version 11 and Shader Model 5.0.

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

Everything I hoped for. Started playing at 11pm, next time I noticed the clock was 2am. Next time I noticed the clock was 3:30 am. The next time after was 5:30. I stopped at 6:30.

Oct. 2024

Let's keep this short, simple and straight to the point. If you've played Railway Empire 1 and enjoyed it then IMO you'll enjoy RE2 even more. It's similar with lots of QOL improvements over what RE1 has. For example - auto signalling (which can be toggled on/off). I'll let you decide what the QOL stuff you'll like/appreciate the most.

Sept. 2024

I played the first RE for hundreds of hours. First time I played the second one, I didn't adapt so well. Everything felt so different and cumbersome. But after I gave it a second chance, played the first campaign throught, I loved it. This game improves the first one in every aspect. One point that helped me a lot was to remap the keys to be similar to the first one and more intuitive (t - tracks, g - gridiron, b - build, s - supply towers, f - flow of goods, etc....). Default keymap is terrible in my opinion.

April 2024

Much better and a lot more fun than the RE1, this game is a great value for the money, especially for the play-hours you can have. Yes, steep, very steep learning curves ahead, so be warned. Game has a complicated supply and demand system as it should but you can only master this through many mistakes and playing many hours. Sure there are guides and videos out there yet, until you truly figure this out on your own through playing it, you won't quite get it right to fully enjoy the game. Because once you figure this out, then its a well oiled machine that's joy to play and watch. Laying tracks, making connections and figuring out the finer details of switches and gridirons are also a lengthy process. There are a few bugs here and there and I am sure the developers will fix those in time as they are mentioned in forums and so on. Now there is one bug that is a end game killer. If there are more than one station in a city, yours or the competitions' and you get a task asking you to transport x number passengers from a city to another city, often enough game won't recognize your numbers as its looking for a specific train station to connect to a specific train station. So if you use your first stations build in both cities, game might be looking for the second stations and if you don't experiment and try different combinations, you will just lose the mission. This is the best train management game out there and the best one since railroad tycoon that came out many many years ago.

March 2024

It's a little bit of an adjustment from the first game. Some QoL I enjoy (warehouses in cities). Switches for going into a city are a bit trickier. I like the old stations better. However, overall it's just as enjoyable and the campaign seems like it'll be lengthy. If you played the first or still enjoying it, I'm not sure this is different enough to upgrade. I would buy on sale. This more Railway Empire 1.5.

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