Train Fever
Skip · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.33/hr
- Reviews▼
- 64% of 3,530
- Critics
- 67 players 3 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 82% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15h
- To 100%
- 102.5h 6.8x the story
- Achievements
- 39
Price and sales
- Sales
- 87 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 March 2022
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 18 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 13% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 87 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Transport Fever 2 ($39.99, scores 80) and Transport Fever ($29.99, scores 61) both outscore it.
More about Train Fever
This site sampled 283 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 23 percent of the 469 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
15 hours to finish it, 103 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (90% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Immediately after buying this game I realize how good game it was but after 20 hours I realized is more complex than it seems and it requires some certain time to understand how it actually functions. I have spent around 160 hours trying to get all achievements and man, I had enough. I can tell that Transport Fever (the game after this) is 10 times better and has better mechanics than this particular game. I don't...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
BLUF: if you're tempted to pick this up on sale for $1.99, just get Transport Fever for $4.49 instead. This has been sitting in my library unplayed for years, though I played and enjoyed the first Transport Fever. I picked it up for a while just to say I completed one game, and it's (maybe predictably) an inferior version of its sequel in just about every way. More of the challenge comes from how obtuse it is than...
A charming and ambitious transport simulation that focuses strongly on building and managing railway networks. It has a slower and more classic feel, but that is part of its appeal. Planning tracks, choosing vehicles, and helping towns develop through better connections makes the experience rewarding. Even if it feels simpler than newer games in the genre, it still offers a lot of enjoyment for fans of transport and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 8800 512 MB, ATI Radeon HD 3850 512 MB. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Train Fever scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/304730/train-feverReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.