Train Life: A Railway Simulator
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 63% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570. Windows only.
For the first time in railroad simulation, play as both the driver and company director! Take the controls of your locomotives and grow your railway empire by negotiating deals and developing your network.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 36 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. American Truck Simulator ($4.99, scores 94) outscores it, and so does Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator ($9.59, scores 10). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 207 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
33% 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
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 22:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Train Life: A Railway Simulator scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1330660/train-life-a-railway-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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