Train Life: A Railway Simulator on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 only on Windows 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 1,515 reviews of which 972 were positive and 543 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.3 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.40€ on Instant Gaming.


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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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March 2025
Great game. Looking for an easy to control "pick up and play" train sim like Euro Truck and American Truck sims?? This is it. Big map with lots of cities and industries to deliver people and goods to and from. You and the cities level up as you progress and service the cities. Nice big, populated world that looks really nice. Runs well with no bugs. Oh! And it's not abandoned! It's just finished! Yeah, it doesn't have a thousand DLCs to buy, but this is what it is and it's well worth the asking price!
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March 2025
A decent Train Simulator/Euro Truck Sim hybrid which I'm really enjoying playing. Sadly seems that development on it has halted, so no further bugfixes or content are coming- but if you like train games, and it's in a steam sale, I still recommend it.
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Sept. 2024
Fun mixture of simulation and arcade to play while we wait for the worthy successor to RT3 that probably still won't be coming for at least a few years I would imagine. Train life lets you control a train in a simplified maner and you have the ability to hire train drivers and trains that they can drive to help you in the deliveries you need to make to upgrade the cities. It is fun to buy trains and upgrade them although it is somewhat difficult to upgrade your drivers trains and if you change their trains while they are making a run that run is lost. The setting of this game is a Europe where the transportation services are actually inferior to what they were in the 19th century historically. Your company is the only one that can transport passengers and give the cities the necessary goods they need to upgrade. Note that the goods system is somewhat simplified. However, there is no alcohol of any kind in this game and that is a very big plus for me. This game does have some issues. Many players have complained that this game has been abandoned. Personally, I don't mind too much as it is a decent game with an acceptable tutorial at least. It is nevertheless unfortunate as I would love to see a train game compete with euro truck simulator 2. There is also the issue of trains incoming on the right side. It is difficult to determine where you need to drop off your cargo even when you press the period key. I don't think the complaints about the signalling are all that valid personally. This game has acceptable graphics and it runs well on my rig. Verdict: Get this game if you're into trains and want a simpler game than Train Sim World and where you can buy trains and drivers to help you level up Europe. This is a good game to buy alongside Bounty Train while we wait for the worthy successor to RT3.
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July 2024
It's a fun game once you understand it. I would strongly suggest reading the guides on Steam for it. Some of the design choices are questionable like the signal color not being like real life or train coming towards you on the right side but I believe there a setting to make them appear only on the left side tho. Should be called train life a train game not a simulator since very little is simulated but regardless if you looking for an arcady train game that let you run a train all over Europe without restrictions this is it.
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July 2024
Not perfect but a lot better than most of the other train simulators. A lot of fun, I wish this game was still being worked on, has such potential ! Have had almost no crashes and the game is very stable. It would have been nice to have some yard work, information on gradients and possibly a better mini map which includes more information. The missions are quite long with big distances which makes the game a lot of fun. The game is a nice mix between Simulation and Arcade. Bought the game at a discount, makes the game very worthwhile, very pleased with my purchase.
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Train Life: A Railway Simulator
6.3
972
543
Online players
9
Developer
Simteract
Publisher
Nacon
Release 25 Aug 2022
Platforms
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