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Lay a rail network across open landscapes, drive steam engines, and haul industrial goods alone or with up to 15 friends.
Released 05 Dec 2024
Lay Tracks Across Maps
Drive Steam Locomotives
Haul Goods by Rail
Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!
Developed by Stefan Kelnberger · Published by astragon Entertainment
You take the role of a railroad pioneer in a large open world. Scout routes across the landscape and build a network of tracks, switches, bridges, stations, yards, and other facilities.
Drive steam locomotives and wagons in first person, interacting with engine controls and coupling vehicles. The physics-based simulation makes route layout and train handling part of running the railroad.
Transport goods such as timber, ore, coal, and cattle between industries to earn money and experience. Use your rewards to acquire locomotives and equipment, and play solo, in a sandbox, or cooperatively with up to 15 other players across four maps.
In the supplied reviews, players who enjoy the game often point to designing their own rail networks, planning routes and freight runs, and driving steam trains through scenic maps. Some describe the sandbox as relaxing or especially enjoyable with friends. Others find the solo progression repetitive, and recurring complaints about rough controls, derailments, and multiplayer problems detract from that appeal.
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
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 32 |
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| Players | 1–16 |
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| Multiplayer | Railroads Online supports single-player and online cooperative multiplayer. The store description states you can play alone or with up to 15 friends, for 16 players total, on large maps. Multiplayer is session-based and peer-to-peer according to player reviews, with players cooperating on track building, train operations, and company progression. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No official multiplayer mod support is confirmed in the provided information. Reviews mention no dev tools for mod support, planned Steam Workshop support at some point, terrain mods hoped for by players, and external tools such as RROx/minizwerg used by players, but multiplayer impact is not clearly defined. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
