
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 4/day in the week to Jul 21 → 28.4/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,419 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Drive massive trains across beautiful, challenging landscapes. Deliver cargo between industries, spread over an open world. Earn money, buy new licenses and advance your career as a train engineer, all in seamless, emergent experience. For PC and VR.

256 km² of unrestricted open world, where you can walk or drive trains uninterrupted. Covered in rich vegetation, landscape, water bodies, and an extensive railroad network, the world spans numerous diverse industries and towns. Experience seamless day and night cycles, with dynamic clouds, fog, rain and sounds spicing it all up. Change switches, drive, haul and leave trains at desired locations - the choice is yours.

Advance your career by taking deliveries and earning money. Master efficient driving and look after vehicles to minimize fuel and repair costs. Buy new items and licenses that grant you access to more vehicles and orders. Optionally, you can also play in sandbox mode where economy is not in focus - where you can just have fun doing anything you want without consequences.

Take part in a dynamic industrial chain, where deliveries are procedurally generated for more than 80 cargo types. The output of locations varies, and almost no two deliveries are the same. Haul cargo between industries, or do the shunting and logistics that help the stations create more deliveries. Pick orders and move cargo as desired, according to your own plans, licensing and hauling capacity.

Experience in-depth intricacies of six realistic, accurate steam and diesel locomotive classes with varying transmission types, plus some extra vehicles. Through behavior, sounds, physics and interaction, their characteristics are designed to fully immerse and challenge you. On top of that, you'll find yourself spontaneously involved in coupling, servicing, brake securing, shunting and other railroad procedures.

As a side activity, you may find yourself investing time and money finding and restoring unique locomotive variant derelicts, which you can then customize with numerous useful gadgets. Gadgets are various devices that can improve driving performance, such as digital speedometers, clinometers, colored ambient lights, distance trackers, etc. You can buy them in shops and install them wherever you want, using various tools.

Built from the ground up for both PC and VR, Derail Valley lets you experience it spatially present with the supported mainstream PC VR devices - truly inside the simulator and using your own hands to operate the controls. This is the ultimate, closest experience to being a real railroader! You can seamlessly alternate your progress between the PC and VR sessions, as you prefer.

Be it a derailment, collision, blown traction motor, boiler explosion, brake failure, HAZMAT disaster or even something as mild as wheelslip on a rainy slope, Derail Valley doesn't just present you with a popup screen when you make a mistake - you get to experience the full consequences of your actions, even if they're a rare occurrence.
Whether you are new to trains or an experienced veteran, the game features tutorials that are quick to get you going. A comprehensive user manual also exists, for when you want to dive deep into the details.

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Updates
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Reviews
This might be the most addictive and most entertaining train sim i've ever played So basically, if you are able to buy Derail valley, do it, even if you don't like trains as much as me (I'm a train-o-holic since i was a literal baby) you're gonna have a blast. My only critique is the amount of ram it requieres, especially now that ram is getting harder to get. To the game devs, well done, this is the best train sim i've ever played.
Schon nach 8 Stunden absolut überzeugt Ich habe aktuell erst rund 8 Spielstunden, aber ich kann jetzt schon sagen, dass Derail Valley ein richtig starkes Eisenbahnspiel ist. Wichtig ist dabei: Es ist keine kompromisslose 1:1-Simulation, sondern eher ein Spiel mit realistischen Simulations-Elementen. Das Fahrgefühl ist glaubwürdig, man muss auf Geschwindigkeit, Bremsweg und das Gewicht des Zuges achten, aber es bleibt jederzeit zugänglich und macht einfach Spaß. Eine klassische Story gibt es nicht – und die braucht das Spiel meiner Meinung nach auch gar nicht. Stattdessen arbeitet man sich mit verschiedenen Transportaufträgen nach oben, verdient Geld und investiert dieses in neue Lizenzen. Dadurch schaltet man nach und nach anspruchsvollere Aufträge, längere und schwerere Züge, leistungsstärkere Lokomotiven sowie spezielle Frachten wie Gefahrgut oder zerbrechliche Ladung frei. Dieses Fortschrittssystem motiviert enorm und sorgt dafür, dass man immer auf das nächste Ziel hinarbeitet. Besonders gefallen mir außerdem die Freiheit und der entspannte Spielfluss. Ein Highlight ist für mich, dass man sich selbst orientieren muss. Anstatt einem ständig Markierungen oder Wegpunkte vorzusetzen, nutzt man die Weltkarte und die Bahnhofspläne, um das richtige Gleis und den richtigen Zug zu finden. Auch jede Weiche muss man selbst stellen, was anfangs ungewohnt ist, aber unglaublich zur Immersion beiträgt. Man hat dadurch wirklich das Gefühl, den Zug eigenständig über das Streckennetz zu führen, anstatt nur von A nach B zu fahren. Auch die Atmosphäre ist klasse. Die Landschaften, die Sounds und das allgemeine Fahrgefühl sorgen dafür, dass man gerne noch "eine Fahrt mehr" macht. Natürlich kann ich nach nur 8 Stunden noch nicht alles beurteilen, aber mein erster Eindruck ist durchweg positiv. Wenn das Spiel dieses Niveau hält, werden definitiv noch viele weitere Stunden dazukommen. Mein einziger großer Wunsch wäre ein Multiplayer- bzw. Koop-Modus. Idealerweise könnte man das frei in der Lobby entscheiden. Wer möchte, fährt gemeinsam an einem Zug – zum Beispiel als Lokführer und Rangierbegleiter bzw. Zugbegleiter. Gleichzeitig sollte es aber auch möglich sein, dass jeder seinen eigenen Zug mit eigenen Aufträgen übernimmt. So könnte jede Gruppe genau so spielen, wie sie möchte. Gerade Letzteres hätte riesiges Potenzial: Man müsste sich über Funk oder Voice-Chat absprechen, wer welche Strecke nutzt und wer auf welchem Gleis unterwegs ist. Ohne gute Kommunikation wäre Chaos vorprogrammiert – und genau das wäre doch der Spaß daran. Ich stelle mir jetzt schon vor, wie zwei Freunde nichtsahnend mit 80 km/h um dieselbe Kurve kommen und merken, dass sie sich besser hätten absprechen sollen. 😄 Klare Empfehlung von mir! Wer ein Zugspiel sucht, das realistische Elemente mit gutem Gameplay verbindet, sollte Derail Valley unbedingt ausprobieren.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian +4 more
Hours played at review time, across 977 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Для меня, пожалуй, это лучшее, что можно найти по железнодорожной тематике с адекватным подходом к симуляции и условностями в угоду развлекательному процессу. А с VR так вообще единственный в своём роде проект на подобную тематику, с таким уровнем интерактивности. Сразу чувствуется, что люди делают проект мечты - от души. В предвкушении юбилейного 100-го апдейта желаю разработчикам реализации всех задуманных механик и, конечно же, коммерческого успеха!
I haven't been this excited to play with trains since I was 5
This makes my tistic self very happy. It has trains, like in real life too. What more could you want? Naked trains? Probably not here, but that's okay, because there are still trains and you can train them to train and they train all over the place and they go choo choo and chuggachugga and stuff and it's amazing and that's really all you could ever need. No more perfect of a train sim if I do say so myself, a fellow train expert in all things trains stuff. Yeah. Trains.
its okay rather have sandbox as a sandbox rather than unlocking everything something dosent add up
[h1]I don't even like trains that much...[/h1] I'm not a train fanatic by any means, but I do enjoy transport sims like [b]Transport Fever[/b] — especially games that involve moving cargo around and managing logistics. I actually tried Derail Valley a few years ago and ended up refunding it. If I'm honest, I was impressed with it, but I got completely lost when I reached the harbour. By the time I got there it was night, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, and I just never went back. A few years later, I decided to give it another go. [b]I'm so glad I did.[/b] [h2]The trains[/h2] I've played a few train simulators over the years, and Derail Valley is by far the best I've played. The trains are really well designed and, more importantly, they actually [i]feel[/i] like trains. They handle how you'd expect them to, and you get a genuine feeling that you're actually driving something heavy rather than just controlling a vehicle with a train-shaped model. There's something incredibly satisfying about getting a long freight train moving, managing the throttle and brakes, dealing with gradients and getting your cargo where it needs to go. And for someone who enjoys the cargo/logistics side of games, that's where Derail Valley really hooked me. [h2]My setup[/h2] One thing that really surprised me was how easily it detected my [b]Bravo Throttle Quadrant[/b]. It picked it up immediately, and suddenly I had actual physical levers to control the train. [b]That made a huge difference.[/b] There's something about physically moving a throttle and brake lever while driving a train that makes the whole experience considerably more immersive. [h2]The world[/h2] The world itself could definitely use some more work. It's not the most visually impressive game out there, but it's perfectly good enough to make the journeys enjoyable. And honestly, when you're concentrating on a massive freight train, shunting wagons around and trying not to completely screw up your braking, the scenery becomes somewhat secondary anyway. [h2]The development[/h2] One thing worth mentioning is that there's only a [b]12-person development team[/b] working on the game, so updates aren't exactly coming out at lightning speed. But here's the thing... I've now put around [b]60 hours[/b] into the game and I haven't had a single problem. Not one. [b]I haven't encountered a bug. I haven't had a crash. Nothing has broken on me.[/b] You could quite easily tell me this was a finished game and I wouldn't question it. That's actually pretty impressive considering how many games these days are released and then spend years being patched into a playable state. [h1]★★★★★ Highly Recommended[/h1] I went from refunding this game because I got lost at a harbour at night... ...to putting 60 hours into it and wondering why I ever refunded it in the first place. 😂 I'm not a train enthusiast, and I don't need to be. If you enjoy transport/logistics games and the idea of actually [i]driving[/i] the vehicles moving your cargo around appeals to you, [b]Derail Valley is absolutely worth a look.[/b] [b]Recommended.[/b] 🚂
i like trains, this is trains.
I have only just started playing this, but i am already loving it. There is amazing detail, progression is great so far and is just overall super satisfying to play. I will definitely be sinking a bit of time into this game
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