Railway Empire
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9980% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.46/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 9,746
- Critics
- 74 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 20.5h
- To 100%
- 271.8h 13.3x the story
- Achievements
- 128
Price and sales
- Sales
- 67 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 October 2024
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 86 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 85% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
90% 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 67 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 6 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, RAILGRADE ($29.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Railway Empire 2 ($49.99, scores 33).
More about Railway Empire
The press gave it 74; the people who bought it give it 83 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 366 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
20.5 hours to finish it, 272 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 13 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
A fun game about connecting cities and business with rail lines and managing trains efficiently. There is some tedium in setting up signals and assigning platforms for stations, and I do find some scenarios run a bit long. Having completed the campaign and 2 of the DLC thus far, I hope there continues to be other interesting ways gameplay is tweaked to keep it fresh.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Railway Empire 1 is to Sid Meier's Railroads as Cities: Skylines I is to SimCity 4 and Planet Coaster 1 is to RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 through 3 -- a worthy spiritual successor to a classic.
gets repetitive and boring, but, even so, better that most games that cost twice as much,. still would have been better off buying a bottle of tequila and just watching trains. ALSO, THIS GAME CAME OUT 0VE 30 YEARS AGO UNDER A DIFFERENT NAME... SO... VERY. OUTDATED. GARBAGE.
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About the game
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce GTX460 or AMD Radeon HD5870 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0), 7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Railway Empire scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/503940/railway-empireReviews 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 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.