Sid Meier's Railroads!
Skip · Strategy · 2007
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $2.49.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
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Runs on Windows, macOS.
Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 74 in the 13 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 49 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Railroad Tycoon 3 ($2.49, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Cities in Motion 2 ($19.99, scores 5).
7 of the 618 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, 42 percent of the 345 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Players
73 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
I remain torn by this game. It's a great lighter version of Railroad Tycoon, and it looks great. But the game has stability issues, and I hate it when it crashes with regularity.
for the love of god make a definitive edition with online servers restored and the memory glitch fixed. I will give you all my monies
This game keeps crashing on my computer, running windows 11, the game was great on my old comp
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Sid Meier's Railroads! scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/7600/sid-meier-s-railroadsThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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