Train Valley
Worth it · Action · 2015
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 8.7h
- Value
- $1.15/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATi Radeon HD 2400 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 84 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grocery Store Simulator ($14.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Reus ($3.99, scores 55).
Critics scored it 69. Players sit 21 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
4 of the 403 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 417 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.7 hours; clearing it takes 19, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
59% start to 2% 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
10 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Entertaining! Some levels was quite challenging if you want to get 3 stamps, but it was fun. But, I think without time limit (like Train Valley 2) was really great advantage and make it more easier. Recommended!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Train Valley scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/353640/train-valleyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Jul 30, price as of Sep 24.
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