SimRail - The Railway Simulator

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 3,983 reviews of which 3,406 were positive and 577 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified SimRail - The Railway Simulator into these genres:

Trains Simulation Transportation Multiplayer Driving Realistic Singleplayer Massively Multiplayer Physics Online Co-Op Automobile Sim Immersive Sim Open World Family Friendly Exploration 3D Experience First-Person Life Sim Word Game

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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 *: 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: 60 GB available space

Reviews

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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

May 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☑ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

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

Feb. 2024

TL;DR: Very good multiplayer train simulator, slightly hampered by bad AI dispatching. One of the few multiplayer games I can stand to play. Very wholesome community just chilling with trains. Not that much interaction all of the time, but still nice to meet some actual people either driving trains or dispatching at stations. Excellent train simulator. Varied trains, and whenever you get bored of them, take a break by doing some dispatching. Some drawbacks. Single player scenarios are pretty basic, with some lacking AI traffic and thus feeling very barren. Plus no saves or checkpoint right now, which is a big problem for scenarios that last 3 hours or more. AI dispatchers on the multiplayer servers are a joke a lot of the time. I've noticed four common mistakes that they make. 1. They cannot prioritise properly. Several times I've been stuck behind red lights at stations way past my scheduled departure because the AI decided to clear through another train before me even though its scheduled departure was after mine. 2. Ignoring scheduled layovers and thus hampering high speed express trains. Sometimes freight trains or low priority passenger trains have scheduled layovers to let high priority trains pass, but AI dispatchers might ignore these and send them through without stopping, after which the high priority train gets slowed down. 3. Creating nonsensical routes through their stations. Just a few days ago I was in a high speed train, and for some reason an AI dispatcher diverged me into a siding, even though I had no scheduled layover and the track going straight through was totally clear. This forced me to crawl at 20 kph for ages on a 200 kph stretch. It cost me like 10 minutes. 4. Being overly stressed about sending through trains when it's busy to the point that they start sending trains down the wrong way (on the left hand side of dual track lines), rather than just wait for one minute to send through the next train on the correct side of the tracks. Usually this just ends up delaying several other trains who have to wait for their side of the track to clear. Since there are many stations that can only be controlled by AI dispatchers at the moment, it is really a miracle if you reach your terminus on time. You don't really get penalised for delays in multiplayer, but it's still kind of annoying when you end up late due to incompetent AI dispatching. If you like train simulators, this is perfect for you, especially if you're interested in dispatching. So join us! We really need more people on the English servers!

Dec. 2023

I rarely write a review, but I would like to make an exception for SimRail, what a great game this is already, it is early access, but it is already of such high quality. The showpiece is certainly the multiplayer, driving together with other players (drivers and dispatchers) is really great, I love the interaction. The fact that you drive on a 1:1 track and can follow your train live on a map is really great. I've played several train simulators (Trainz, MSTS, Railworks and even TSW3) but this is truly the best I've ever played! This game has huge potential and I fully support the developers!!

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33.99€

8.3

3,406

577

Online players

915

Developer

SimRail S.A.

Publisher

PlayWay S.A.

Release 13 Dec 2024

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