Railroads Online

the game at the beginning of its development looked good, but in the end we got a version with more bugs than significant improvements to the gameplay in general (I mean the lack of realistic physics within the game) like the wheel slipp, or a more entertaining economy and game loop, the game was initially on the right track (ignoring the scam that was American Railroads - Summit River & Pine Valley since that garbage stopped updating and also those who bought it did not give them a copy of railroads online although they promised) but the development of the game went to hell along with the optimization and more realistic physics, the game is not bad but the dev is not worth a damn, also the requirements in steam are not real, I bought this piece of junk thinking that I could play it with my toaster because it met the requirements but no the game would not open and when I tested it on a more powerful PC it had miserable performance, being that graphically it is not that great either, in short the game is not bad but its dev and The community managers are some miserable liars saying that this thing is a realist game and also releasing the supposed final version as if the state of the game was good, but it is full of bugs, poor optimization and lack of what they promise, the game is not worth what you have to pay for it in the state it is in (even more so if you were among the first to buy the game when it was worth almost 40 dollars) I was quite disappointed and I still hope that Century of Steam will finally close the coffin of this mess.

I was always fine with this game having alot of bugs especially when having longer consists but when the full version got released and cars still "rattle" and seperate randomly and the camera just "jitters" all over the place for me and all my friends, it's a little frustrating that this wasnt fleshed out beforehand. Track placement has a learning curve and can be difficult, even when you have a vision in your head of what your trying to accomplish and it feels like it was "it's still in early access so thats why it's buggy" to "this is the completed version now so deal with it". Did I have some fun with this game with my friends? Yes. Do my friends and I play it anymore? Never. Do we regret our purchase? 100% because we wrongly assumed the bugs would be fixed at some point in development and theres strong limitations to what you can do in game due to the bugs like for example, even if your locomotive has enough tractive effort to pull many full cars, wont matter because the cars will just vibrate very annoyingly. and jitter the consist, your loco, and your camera. Railroads online had a ton of potential and is disappointing seeing its end state.

Played this game under development, was a pretty ok game with the occasional annoying bugs until most of the dev team left. Since then it has gotten worse and worse. Old bugs are not being fix and now pushing out DLCs with more locomotives and rail cars without fixing the original ones. Honestly if I had a chance to buy it now I wouldn't

only game on my mid to high level gaming pc that seems to be unplayable... wont even get to main menu without crashing, and if im lucky enough to get to the main menu, it wont make it past the loading screen into a game before crashing. was playable many many many updates ago, i think before they started adding new maps.

I do like the for being able to build and run your own railway. In that it is rather fun. Ultimatley tough it is a rather bad and frustrating if you want to make things realistic. On no map so far was I able to link up all industry when trying to stay with a gradient or curves that would be manageable by trains. Some industry on the map even require ridicoules gradients right after the loading area. I was looking at the prelaid maps to see if was just not able to find the right way, but they laid the tracks just as ridiculous as the maps suggested, leaving me with crazy bridge systems just to get to a logging camp. This really shows that the developers are most likely not having a clue in regards of realism. Further it seems this was abandoned at version 1 and only serves as a huge hint for me: No more from this developer.

Eh... not really. kbyethx

Its very disappointing that after so many years of development, they still have not fixed the stability issues with this game. Its very difficult to play the game and progress a save when the game crashes every 15 minutes for no discernible reason.