Railroad Tycoon II Platinum
Worth it · Strategy · 2007
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $1.24 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.11/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 1,408
- Critics
- 89 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 43.6h
- To 100%
- 100h 2.3x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 64 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.24 November 2014
- Sale every
- 56d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 104 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
64 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Railroad Tycoon 3 ($9.99, scores 52) and Sid Meier's Railroads! ($9.99, scores 31).
More about Railroad Tycoon II Platinum
Of the 350 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 166 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
43.6 hours to finish it, 100 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. 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
About the game
Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.
Minimum specs
Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Railroad Tycoon II Platinum scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/7620/railroad-tycoon-ii-platinumReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.