Train Sim World® 2

Train Sim World® 2

Fair · Strategy · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 3 of 8 sales

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hourS
$0.95/hr
Reviews▼
82% of 8,259
Genre rank
Top 9% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
21h
Achievements
435

Price and sales

Sales
25 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$4.49 March 2022
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $2.98 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
16 now
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
82% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

91% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 25 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 9 percent. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games closest to it, Train Sim World® 4 ($29.99, scores 56) and Train Sim World® 5 ($39.99, scores 35) both come in lower.

More about Train Sim World® 2

8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 493 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 17 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.95/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 81% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Refunds8 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

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.
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 15hJul 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
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.
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 4.5hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Train Sim World® 2 scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1282590/train-sim-world-2
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 16, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperDovetail Games
PublisherDovetail Games - TSW
GenreStrategy
Released2020
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements435