Mashinky
Fair · Strategy · 2018 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 42h
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 750 or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $24.99. That was October 2017. In 9 years of price history it has never once been discounted.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Factory Town ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Voxel Tycoon ($24.99, scores 51).
Of the 503 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 214 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
99% start to <1% 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
37 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 19:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I'll start this out by comparing it to OpenTTD, going into more details later. Graphics: Much better than OptenTTD Economy: More complex here. Variety of trains: better here. Variety of road vehicles: On par Variety of air vehicles: No comment, haven't really gotten into that here yet. Variety of naval vessels: Non existent here Viability of using different vehicle types: Different, i'll explain later...
I still stick by my assertion that Mashinky needs multiple parallel tracks on a single tile. But having played it for many more hours since my previous review, I've come to feel that it's not quite a deal-breaker, it's just kinda frustrating when you're trying to work in and around towns. Otherwise, you have to - critically have to - use multiple tiles. I wish I could post a neutral review. This game desperately...
Crashes a lot, missing a lot of QoL and feels very half baked despite very long time in development already
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mashinky scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/598960/mashinkyReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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