RAILGRADE
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 39h
- Value
- $0.77/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GPU 4GB VRAM, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.99. That was December 2025. 30 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Factory Town ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats InfraSpace ($24.99, scores 57).
18 of the 485 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 534 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 164 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
39 hours to finish it, 98 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
95% 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
What players say
Good game with the potential to be great if the developer made some adjustments. I think this would be a strong contender for a pause feature, it could stand to have speed settings because sometimes you are just waiting for enough things to ship to complete your tasks with nothing else you need to do, and as other have mentioned some signals or more advanced tools for managing the train behavior would be welcome...
I can't stop playing this game. Even if you have pretty much figured it all out, you can still enjoy the puzzle aspect of it, and try and improve what you pay attention to and when, shaving off some seconds off of your time in each level. I so hope the journey will continue, so many good choices have been made for this one.
Good game, although it suffers the fate most of these kind of games do: The later the game, the more tedious and less fun it becomes. But I can still recommend it, even knowing I will never finish it.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
RAILGRADE scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1355090/railgradeReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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