JR EAST Train Simulator
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $22.99.
- Reviews
- 77% of 1,250 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 260 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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.
About the game
The official train company's authentic driving simulator is here! JR East Train Simulator" is a train driving simulator that allows you to experience live-action images and realistic driving sounds of JR East's actual train lines in your own home.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (VRAM 6GB), 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has gone on sale once in the 4 years tracked here, most recently in January 2026. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 37 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 49 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. On the same math Train Sim World® 3 ($14.99, scores 39) and Train Sim World® 5 ($23.99, scores 40) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about JR EAST Train Simulator
12 of the 578 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 615 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 449 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
34% 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
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
JR EAST Train Simulator scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 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/2111630/jr-east-train-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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.