Railroads Online

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About the Game Set in a huge open world reminiscent of the Americas during the golden age of steam trains, Railroads Online puts you in the role of a pioneer helping to shape the future of America. Build tracks, traverse vast landscapes in various steam locomotives, transport goods to earn money, and customize and buy new locomotives and equipment as you grow to become a railroad tycoon.

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Developer:
Stefan Kelnberger
Publisher:
astragon Entertainment
Engine:
Unreal Engine 5
Release date:
05 December 2024
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (27)
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (4360)

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Description

About the Game

Set in a huge open world reminiscent of the Americas during the golden age of steam trains, Railroads Online puts you in the role of a pioneer helping to shape the future of America. Build tracks, traverse vast landscapes in various steam locomotives, transport goods to earn money, and customize and buy new locomotives and equipment as you grow to become a railroad tycoon. Play alone or with up to 15 friends in the online cooperative multiplayer mode on 4 different large maps including Lake Valley, Aurora Falls, Pine Valley and Mesa Plains.

Tracks, trains & more

Design your dream rail network from the ground up. Explore the world, scout the best route and lay down embankments, switches, turntables and more. Select and build tracks, bridges and other infrastructure buildings afterwards. Then cross the vast, open landscape in finely detailed locomotives and wagons. Interact with regulators, valves, brakes, couplers, and many more features in first-person view as you drive your vehicles. But you won't simply be driving around aimlessly! Your mission is to build up your company by transporting goods across the country, including timber, ore, coal, cattle, gold and other various freight items for a broad variety of industries. Earn money for every successful shipment and invest in new vehicles or upgrade and customize your existing locomotives. Plus: build stations, yards, and other infrastructure along your routes to service your trains with fuel, water, and sand. You can also build up a wide variety of iconic buildings and objects to create a beautiful surrounding for your railroad network.

Experience the Railroad Sandbox with up to 16 players

Enjoy a realistic railroad experience with the advanced Unreal Engine physics system for deep railroad simulation. All collisions and forces are rendered dynamically in real time, making the train driving experience much more immersive. So, be careful about derailing your train! And to top it all off, you can play Railroads Online with up to 15 players on a server and enjoy the ultimate train simulation in multiplayer sessions with your friends. Lay tracks together and cooperate to move trains seamlessly or share the work while you play independently. It’s also possible to save and load your progress, so you can enjoy the best tracks or most creative layouts again and again.

If you like trains, start your journey today!

  • Open World Sandbox for you to explore

  • Online multiplayer sessions with up to 16 players

  • Manage your own company

  • 4 different maps

  • Extremely detailed locomotives and other equipment

  • Drive your customized steam engines

  • Interact with regulators, valves, brakes, and appliances

  • Build stations, yards, and other infrastructure to service your trains

  • Build tracks, switches, and railroad facilities

  • Transport goods and earn money

  • Unreal 5 Engine for great visual quality

  • Enjoy a realistic railroad physics system

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS:
Windows 10 or Windows 11 64-bit
Processor:
Intel® Core™ i3-8100 or similar
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (2 GB VRAM) / AMD Radeon R9 285 (2 GB VRAM)
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
6000 MB available space

recommended*

OS:
Windows 10 or Windows 11 64-bit
Processor:
Intel Core i5-11600K @ 3.9 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 5600X @ 3.7 GHz
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 with 8 GB VRAM or more
DirectX:
Version 12
Network:
Broadband Internet connection
Storage:
6000 MB available space

User reviews

Seth04a
Not recommended | 06 Jun 2026
85.7h played

This game is severely underbaked and riddled with bugs. On top of that, the last update was over 1 and a half year ago, there hasn't been any communication anymore, making this a yanky piece of abandonware.

Helpful: 15
Qualified EIC
Not recommended | 24 Jun 2026
1432h played

TLDR-Not recommended without bug fixes. I have logged more than a few hours on this one. It was a fun game on and off through early access. However, the finished product lacks advertised features and polish. That was

Helpful: 11
O-5-13
Not recommended | 17 May 2026
96.8h played

It’s a really good game, and it’s fun, but it’s basically abandoned because the creators haven’t updated the game in 2 years now. There also seems to be no information on when they’re going to work on it again. It’s a

Helpful: 11
SladeSlice00
Not recommended | 09 Jun 2026
19.7h played

This was fun for a while, but it has been abandoned. There's another game like this that is coming out eventually, it called Century of Steam. Check it out and when it comes out, I doubt it will get dropped.

Helpful: 3
logan
Not recommended | 18 May 2026
498h played

Just buy Century of Steam when it comes out. Do not give these people your money. I followed the development of this game since the very start in October of 2021, when this game was promised to be something great with a

Helpful: 5
bee
Recommended | 07 Jun 2026
35.5h played

this game is one of the best narrow gauge railroad simulators ive ever played, but the small shrubs can derail an entire train which is very painful to see. when are we going to get a 2ft gauge update? i wanna make the

Helpful: 1