Train Sim World® 4
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.6h
- Value
- $1.70/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 94 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 460 with 2 GB VRAM or more, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.
Feel the power of simulation in your hands. Experience immense velocity and express unrivalled creativity with Train Sim World 4! Expand your rail hobby and discover the raw emotion of driving a diverse array of iconic routes and trains. From training center to mountain pass, this is your journey.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.99, set in June 2024. It has been discounted 15 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 13 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Train Sim World® 2 ($19.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Train Sim World® 5 ($39.99, scores 36).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 26 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 670 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 269 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 17.6 hours. Doing everything runs 81, 4.6 times as long.
The drop-off
92% 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
17 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 05:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I was so excited to play, and don't get me wrong this game runs graphics really well. However if you want any form of variety in trains you have to pay MORE MONEY!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Train Sim World® 4 scores 56/100 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/2362300/train-sim-world-4Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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