Best Trains Games on Steam
Games about railways, locomotives, routes, scheduling, driving, or transport networks.
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1Factorio - Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Aug 14, 2020
In this game, you can…
- lay down a base blueprint and have hundreds of flying robots swarm out to build the whole thing for you.
- turn your own pollution into a trigger for escalating alien attacks, then answer with turrets, flamethrowers, laser walls, and artillery.
- watch one slow belt starve a whole smelter line, then chase the fix into new mines, defenses, trains, and a bigger power grid.
- go from chopping trees by hand to a coal-powered setup that keeps crafting grenades while you're off building elsewhere.
- tear down a working factory and rebuild the entire layout at once using thousands of construction robots.
- build a rail network that connects distant mines and outposts, then run multiple trains through it without crashes or jams.
- unlock an oil chain that forces you to refine, crack, and route multiple fluids just to keep science production fed.
- create a factory so huge you can't fully understand it anymore, with belts looping for miles just to feed one machine.
- build an automated machine empire that can run overnight while robots repair, haul, and keep production moving.
2Stormworks: Build and Rescue - Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Sep 17, 2020
In this game, you can…
- pump water out of an airlock 200 meters underwater, juggling fluid pressure until the chamber clears.
- build a missile that loiters around a waypoint until a target appears, then guides itself in for a strike.
- use radar automation to coordinate an automatic drone firefighter swarm as a tiny robotic emergency fleet.
- design your own air-sea rescue fleet, then take it into storms to fight fires, repair oil rigs, and run power stations.
- wire a full command center with cameras, live monitors, and radios you built, then run the whole vehicle remotely.
- iterate a boat through failures until it becomes a 200+ km/h hydrofoil that outruns most multiplayer craft.
- design a pipeline that flexes with waves, locks together, and feeds an oil rig while a tug boat holds everything in place.
- fly a helicopter through heavy winds and land it in rough seas, where the waves are big enough to punish bad design.
3Monster Train - Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
May 21, 2020
In this game, you can…
- dump your entire hand every turn because draw and energy let you chain huge turns instead of rationing
- take a champion down multiple upgrade paths, then keep reviving it so it comes back stronger again and again
- race seven other players in a timed mode where everyone gets the same enemies and rewards, and speed is the tiebreaker
- defend three stacked battlefields on a train while enemies climb floor by floor toward your heart
- see the final boss from the start and build your entire run around its specific threat
- stack upgrades onto one card, duplicate it, and build a deck that plays like a broken machine
- pair two different clans in one run and mash their strengths together into new combos
- play daily or custom challenge runs with weird rule changes, mutators, and friend-made constraints
4Unrailed! - 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!
Sep 23, 2020
In this game, you can…
- race a moving train by chopping wood, mining iron, and laying track before it runs out and explodes.
- hit later maps that flip your controls, rotate the camera, or turn the whole world upside down mid-run.
- turn exploding fish into free high-level dynamite by dashing at the right moment and stealing the blast for yourself.
- pull off a last-second save by sprinting for materials and slamming down rails just before the train hits the end.
- drop dynamite, blow up the terrain, and accidentally wipe out your whole team in the same blast.
- stop everything when the engine catches fire, find the bucket, haul water back, and keep the train from burning down.
- get boxed in by the train and teammates, realize your escape route is blocked, and get run over while trying to fix it.
- earn bolts at stations, then buy new wagons and parts like an atomic engine, auto-pickup, or a wagon that produces TNT.
- rewatch your entire disaster run as a fast-forward highlight reel, speeding the replay up to 50x.
5Choo-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.
Dec 9, 2022
In this game, you can…
- open the map and end up off the train while it keeps moving, then chase down your own locomotive and hop back on before Charles catches it.
- drive a train across an open-world island while a monster train can show up mid-trip and chase you.
- mount rear guns on your locomotive, kite enemies to the rails, and mow them down from the gunner seat while they chase.
- upgrade an old mining train into a rolling weapons platform.
- leave the train for a quick task, then get jumped and have to sprint back to the tracks to survive.
- collect scrap from side missions, unlock nastier train weapons, then take your fully upgraded engine into a final duel.
- get quests from eccentric islanders, like doing a mission for the Pickle Lady to earn gear and scrap.
- plant eight explosives under a bridge in bad visibility while trying not to get hunted.
6OpenTTD - 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.
Apr 1, 2021
In this game, you can…
- build rail tracks and signals that function like logic circuits, letting the railway behave like a computer.
- use mods to add entirely new industries and cargo chains, like 48 cargo types feeding 30 different industries.
- run dozens or even hundreds of trains through the same junction without stopping, if your signals and layout are right.
- build a rail network so huge the whole map turns into tracks.
- chain a coal mine to a faraway power plant by rail and turn that long-haul route into a profit engine.
- link road, rail, ships, and planes into one station hub so cargo transfers between them across a single network.
- set timetables and run peak-hour passenger traffic with custom rules for how cities generate travelers.
- plant trees all over a town's buildings and yards to win approval and steer how the city grows.
7Mini 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?
Nov 6, 2015
In this game, you can…
- play a mode where the lines you draw are permanent, so every route becomes a long-term commitment you can't undo later.
- pause constantly to pick up trains, drop them at problem stations, and build temporary one-stop lines to bleed pressure off the map.
- watch trains make smart decisions, dropping passengers at interchanges to transfer instead of taking everyone on pointless loops.
- draw a subway line between three stations and watch your first train start running the route.
- redraw your whole network mid-run as new stations appear and one distant corner suddenly starts choking with crowds.
- choose one weekly upgrade, like another line, extra carriages, or tunnels and bridges to cross water.
- reroute trains and rebuild lines in a short window when a station starts filling up and the overload meter appears.
- deal with rare new station shapes that show up later and force interchanges, even when they spawn across water or in hard-to-reach corners.
- build around city maps where rivers, lakes, and islands force hard tunnel-or-bridge decisions just to connect stations.
8Captain of Industry - Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
May 31, 2022
In this game, you can…
- dig up hills with excavators, then dump the spoil into the sea to reclaim land.
- launch rockets, build a space station, then capture asteroids to restock your island with resources you already mined out.
- pump crude oil into tanks, run multi-stage distillation, then keep the whole refinery moving by routing every byproduct somewhere useful.
- carve a giant open-pit mine, then turn the leftover hole into flat building ground.
- build a steam power setup with turbines, high- and low-pressure loops, and flywheels, then replace your fuel generators with it.
- plan an entire factory in blueprint mode, copy-paste whole modules, then watch trucks deliver parts and assemble it piece by piece.
- send your ship out to discover new islands, trade for resources, rescue refugees, and set up imports after your home deposits run out.
- repair and upgrade a ship to extend its range, manage its fuel limits, dodge pirates, then have it return days later loaded with trade goods.
9Monster 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.
May 21, 2025
In this game, you can…
- set up your units across multiple floors before the fight even starts.
- duplicate a monster twice so you're running the same build-defining unit on all three floors.
- restart a single turn or the whole battle to redo your sequence after a misplay.
- strap a piece of equipment onto a unit, then play a room upgrade that buffs that entire floor.
- manually trigger active abilities on your champions and creatures, often with cooldowns, to time big turns.
- build a unit to 100 health so it takes half damage, reflects 100 damage back, and scales armor and attack every hit.
- pick a run-defining Pyre Heart, like a once-per-combat heal or paying shops to duplicate cards.
- unlock returning factions from the first game as playable clans in the sequel.
- pick a primary clan and an ally clan each run, then discover completely different playstyles from the pairing.
10Derail Valley - Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Jan 25, 2019
In this game, you can…
- derail without an instant fail screen, slide off a bridge into a river, and die from impact or drowning while the cab floods.
- physically couple cars by hand, hook the chain, connect brake hoses, and open the air valves yourself.
- build a whole freight run end-to-end: collect empties, load them, assemble the consist, haul it out, then unload and store cars in sidings.
- haul 500 tons into a storm, climb a mountain in a rusty diesel, then fight to keep it under control on the way down.
- run a long train where brake response lags behind your inputs, then vent the brake line from the last valve to force a slow stop.
- leave cars sitting, watch their air bleed off, and have them roll away if you didn't set enough handbrakes.
- take crude oil from the wells to the harbor, spot the cars, then assemble a different outbound train from processed products for the next haul.
- restore derelict locomotives for the museum and turn one into a personal train by mounting gadgets and lights almost anywhere.
