Derail Valley
Fair · Strategy · 2019 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 650 (VR: GTX 970), 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $19.99. That was January 2019. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 8 years tracked here, most recently in July 2026.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Train Sim World® 2 ($19.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Wrench ($29.99, scores 39).
12 of the 573 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 355 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Players
413 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 16:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Derail Valley scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/588030/derail-valleyReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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