Train Sim World® 2
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 21h
- Value
- $0.95/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The evolution of train simulation! Master iconic locomotives on high-speed services, long freight hauls or precise commuter traffic, and get creative with customisation tools in this advanced sequel. Climb into the cab in Train Sim World 2.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
March 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. It has been discounted 24 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, American Truck Simulator ($19.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Train Sim World® 4 ($29.99, scores 56).
8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 496 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
91% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
36 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I wont be buying anything from dovetail games ever again... even if it was on fire. But seriously, this company's model is to release the same game every year but with some newish assets. Its greedy, its disrespectful, its dumb, its just plain old f***ed up. Go to hell dovetail. Go straight there.
TSW2 is full of bugs, can't complete some tasks as the game won't let you. Total waste of money as they do not update to fix the bugs. Avoid.
I was a huge fan of TSC, still am. I can't justify TSW. I thought maybe just maybe DTG would change how train simulator is released but no.... Year after year now it's just the same game re-released with minor updates. I stopped at TSW2, now it's on 6? Yeah never going to support this type of business model again.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Train Sim World® 2 scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1282590/train-sim-world-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Sep 24.
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