Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™
Worth it · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.89, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2015.
- Length
- 23.5h
- Value
- $0.04/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 682 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 85% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
About the game
Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 63 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $0.89 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Factory Town ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats RAILGRADE ($8.99, scores 67).
More about Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™
This site sampled 328 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 137 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is the guy behind RollerCoaster Tycoon doing transport logistics instead of coasters, and it's got that same obsessive, chunky, slightly janky charm. Build rail, road, water, and air networks from the 1800s onward, wrestling with gradients, junctions, and timetables that never quite behave the way you planned. It's not flashy, the UI shows its age and the tutorial barely exists, but there's...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Been playing this game since I was a wee lad. If you got train autism this game is for you. Wish there was more ways to spend my money other than more vehicles and buying industries.
Remaster this game Atari PLEASE - This game is hard and it does not help you with learning it. 1 out of 5 stars ---- I bought this game after playing through Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 and 2. (RCT for short) I saw Chris Sawyer's name and wanted to play another one of his games. Thankfully Steam had priced at a fun amount so it was worth getting for the collection building. I spent 13 hours trying to get comfortable...
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Cite this score
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/356430/chris-sawyer-s-locomotionReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.