The Trains Zone

Games about railways, locomotives, routes, scheduling, driving, or transport networks.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Cat Isle - Catch a train to Cat Isle! In this cozy pixel art management game, build restaurants, expand and decorate the town. Figure out your cats needs as they dine, shop, explore and turn the island into their purfect home.
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Jul 20, 2026
99% 👍
of 162
Frostrain 2 - Become the last conductor and rule over the final train society in a frozen world. Gather, expand, and forge your train while building powerful synergies with mighty artifacts. Your position—and the safety of your passengers—now rests in your hands.
Goblin Company - Dig, build rails, and survive underground as a Goblin miner for WHAAG MINING INC. Light your path or the darkness will drain your life. Explore fully destructible biomes, fight hostile creatures, and hunt the legendary Giant Crystal, solo or online co-op
Apocalypse Express - Conduct, upgrade and repair your train through endless waves of enemies in a post-apocalyptic setting. In this action management roguelike, the player decides to embark on a journey through the wasteland looking to fulfill the dream of seeing the remains of the outside world.
Steel Artery: Train City Builder - Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Brno Transit - A short narrative-driven psychological horror game about a trainee metro driver trapped in the dampest subway east of anything that matters.
City Transport Simulator 2026 - Step into the next generation of urban public transport with City Transport Simulator 2026! Experience the most immersive bus and tram simulation yet, with a dynamic city that reacts to your every decision.
Railroad Corporation 2 - The 20th century heralds the new age of electrification for the railroad, and a new opportunity to make your fortune. Build your corporation carefully, as you deploy modern electric and diesel locomotives, lay new tracks, transport goods and passengers, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ - Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!
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Mar 17, 2015
87% 👍
of 670
Rise of Industry - Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Mini Settlers - Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Kubifaktorium - Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
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Dec 16, 2021
81% 👍
of 800
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.
Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator - Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

TRAIN CREW - It is a game where you become a driver of the fictitious railway Tatehama Electric Railway and drive a train. Currently, you can drive up and down 28 km from Akayamacho Station to Tatehama Station.
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Sep 30, 2021
99% 👍
of 480
Short Trip - A hand-drawn, interactive illustration about a scenic tramway, windswept mountains and cats with places to be.
Back in Service: a Metro Driver - Join the adventure and become the master of the metro in our game, which takes you into the underground world. Overcome challenges on the tracks from the cabin of a historic train. Can you complete the route, transport all passengers, and avoid delays?
Nancy Drew®: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon - Catch this train — it’s your ticket to solving a century-old mystery!
Russian Subway Dogs - A fast-paced arcade game inspired by the real-life stray dogs of the Moscow metro. Compete in online leaderboards and progress through a challenging campaign while unlocking guest critters from your fave games! Juggle vodka, bark fire, cook bears, and more! Can you steal enough food to survive?
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Aug 2, 2018
97% 👍
of 275
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved - A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!
Diesel Railcar Simulator - Drive vintage diesel trains, shifting gears manually and trying to reach a perfect score. Create new routes, trains and timetables. Share your creations and download new content from the Workshop.
Railway Islands - Puzzle - Railway Islands is a puzzle game about designing a railway map for a large archipelago. Make a safe path between the stations and let your train deliver all the resources and go to the next island.
Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle - Arrange the town islands and see them come to life. Just swap the blocks of a 3D jigsaw puzzle.
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Aug 30, 2022
94% 👍
of 245

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Derail Valley - Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Railroader - You and your fellow railroaders are the lifeblood of your railroad, just like it is the lifeblood of the communities it serves. Switch cars at industries. Keep people moving while running local passenger trains. Run trains with a purpose in transition era Appalachia – in Railroader!
Mini Metro - Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
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Nov 6, 2015
96% 👍
of 16k
Rolling Line - Build your own model railway tracks and scenery or explore pre-made maps, including 1000s of player-made maps and mods on the Steam Workshop! Play solo and in multiplayer, both in virtual reality and on PC!
OpenTTD - OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players earn money by transporting passengers and cargo via road, rail, water, and air. It is an open-source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
Monster Train 2 - Monster Train returns with all new clans, new enemy factions, new challenges, new modes and more! Defend your Pyre in the classic three-tiered, vertical gameplay that made the original roguelike deckbuilder a hit.
Railbound - A relaxing puzzle game about fixing train connections and travelling the world - now with a level editor!
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Sep 6, 2022
94% 👍
of 1.9k
Tracks - The Train Set Game - Jump into the ultimate toy sandbox and build the train set of your dreams! Create colourful railway systems, decorate beautiful towns, transport commuting passengers, and even ride your train in first-person.
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Nov 14, 2019
94% 👍
of 1.5k
Unrailed! - Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!
Choo-Choo Charles - Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.