Train Sim World® 5
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 16.2h
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 94 days ago
Sources: 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, 35 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Rails are Yours in Train Sim World 5! Take on new challenges and new roles as you master the tracks and trains of iconic cities across 3 new routes. Immerse yourself in the ultimate rail hobby and embark on your next 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 $9.99, set in June 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 14 in the 2 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 13 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 36 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Train Sim World® 4 ($29.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Train Sim World® 3 ($24.99, scores 35).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 30 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 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, 450 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 211 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
89% 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
90 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 09:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Studio cares nothing about the community that supports them. Unfortunately I found this out after it was to late for a refund. This is the worst train GAME on the market, and arguably the worst dev "studio". Beware.
Chock full of bugs - half the things that I do cause an unrecoverable state that is only helped by a full restart. No, it's not a skill issue. I've searched each and every issue and it's always the same - oh it's just a known issue. Devs just make a new game instead of fixing these. Funnily enough, even carrying half of them over. Don't support this.
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® 5 scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2967990/train-sim-world-5Reviews 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 2.
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