SimRail - The Railway Simulator on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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SimRail is new, advanced railway simulator. Master high-speed long-distance EMU, heavy freight hauls and suburban trains. Travel 500 km of geodetic-data based real routes. Become train dispatcher and control the traffic according to the schedule or cooperate with other players on multiplayer mode.

SimRail - The Railway Simulator is a trains, simulation and transportation game developed by SimRail S.A. and published by PlayWay S.A..
Released on December 13th 2024 is available only on Windows in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Czech, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Hungarian, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian.

It has received 4,341 reviews of which 3,648 were positive and 693 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: 64-bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8 / 8.1 or 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 970 | AMD Radeon RX 580
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 80 GB available space

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March 2025
Disclaimer: I'm a real life train driver, so my opinion might be different from that of a casual gamer. I for one, love this simulator. Rest assured, this is not a game, but a simulator. There are no "adventure" missions, no shooting, no score - you just drive a train. What sets this simulator apart from others, is that this is not all about eye candy. It's very good to look at, mind you, but where this sim shines, is in physics and systems managing. Driving a train here isn't just about moving a lever forward or backwards. You actually have to know at least a bit about train systems, especially the brakes (and computers for ERTMS driving). True, the sim isn't totally mature yet - the biggest gripe being the lack of single-player save, or checkpoints. But this isn't a sim you just play casually for a few minutes. If you start playing a sim like this, you expect to play for at least an hour or so. That's why the lack of save isn't a deal breaker for me. In short, this is not a game but a sim; it's more focused towards physics and applying correct procedures, rather than zooming about in a pretty landscape; it has a steep learning curve but is very rewarding; the ability to play as a dispatcher instead of a driver, is a real boon; there are a few bugs/shortcomings, but they are more than compensated by the available features.
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Sept. 2024
The best train sim on the market. Lovingly made, you can really feel it. There are however a few notable caveats: - No saving and loading. This is less of an issue than you'd think, since multiplayer is most fun anyway. - No routes outside of Poland. What is there is however so good that I don't mind. There are plans for expansion already too. - Pricing on DLC has so far has not been great. It remains to be seen how competitively future content will be priced once the game exits early access.
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June 2024
A lot of the positive and negative things have already been covered in other reviews, so I just want to talk about a few specific things I really like about this game: - While the tutorials are indeed not well designed, the act of trying to figure out how the trains work myself with experimenting and doing web research was actually interesting and made the game more exiting for me (Nothing beats the experience of not being familiar with the ETCS system and having a failure while having an angry dispatcher and 3 other training drivers waiting for you to fix it) - I am totally okay with the shallow single player and the devs not focussing on a save function. While this is annoying for people who like it, this game is really about the multiplayer mode. Each drive is unique, you never know what will happen and which signal will suddenly be red. Intercity Stuck behind a cargo train with 60km/h? Being re-routed over cargo tracks because the main way is crowded? Finishing a route on time feels much more rewarding when you are actually playing PvP against other drivers and the dispatchers. You can even have people on the tracks forcing you to emergency break... All this gives the game a really realistic feeling. So for me this is kind of the Dark Souls of Train Simulators. Complicated, sometimes stressful. But if you succeed in understanding details of each traing, or you finish a route on time without using the HUD because of your skills, besides being delayed by multiple other late trains and helpless dispatcher, this is really a good feeling. TLDR; - complicated but rewarding - you are forced to learn tons of things about real trains and train driving - awesome multiplayer, meh single player (but people already started uploading custom scenarios) - infinite replayability due to arbitrary, PvP-like nature of the game
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April 2024
ETCS with good graphics and online multiplayer? Signalling where you can speak to and be the signaller? Trains? hell yeah this sim is amazing
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April 2024
ETCS in this game >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that crap rivet games made for the luzern route in tsw I see a lot of people complaining about the DLC, I think that new rolling stock requires a lot of additional resources and the price is justified. They still do not take advantage of their customers like DTG, as the big update on April 22nd, with ETCS, was completely free and anything but lazily implemented.
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SimRail - The Railway Simulator
8.1
3,648
693
Online players
378
Developer
SimRail S.A.
Publisher
PlayWay S.A.
Release 13 Dec 2024
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