
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.33/day in the week to Jul 21 → 2.2/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 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
Steel Artery is a train-city building simulator set in a steampunk fantasy world. Your task is to create a thriving city on wheels, where every wagon is a new piece of infrastructure and every decision shapes the lives of thousands of inhabitants.
Once upon a time, the Empire built the legendary Steelpolis, a colossal train that showcased technological power, economic dominance, and authority. It traveled across vast provinces, enforcing order, collecting tribute, and dazzling the masses. But now, the Empire’s treasury is empty, its lands fractured, and its infrastructure on the brink of collapse. To save it, the Emperor revives the abandoned project—and you are appointed as the mayor of this reborn city on rails.
Unlike traditional city-builders, you do not give direct commands. Citizens are autonomous, driven by their own needs and choices. They work, eat, rest, and spend money based on their own choices and circumstances. A worker may refuse a faraway job, quit after earning enough gold, or pick a new profession entirely. You provide opportunities—they shape their lives.
Humans, elves, orcs, and other races bring unique needs and values to your train. They form relationships, carry their own histories, and interact in ways that can foster cooperation or create cultural tension. Managing these diverse communities is as vital as expanding your economy.
Every building generates or consumes resources. Workers need salaries, inns charge for rest, and diners demand payment for meals. To keep your city thriving, you must stop in resource-rich regions, extract what you need, and plan your wagon layouts carefully. Space is limited, logistics are complex, and efficiency is the key to survival.
Will you design a compact, fast-moving train for a tight human colony, or create a sprawling leviathan filled with thousands of inhabitants? Each path offers unique challenges and emergent stories.
Unique city-on-train building with wagon-based expansion
Colonies of autonomous citizens with economy-driven behavior
Multiracial populations with distinct needs and cultures
Resource gathering and logistics across diverse regions
Steampunk fantasy world brought to life with atmospheric pixel art
High replayability through countless city variations
Steel Artery Train City Builder challenges you to balance growth, survival, and social harmony aboard a moving city. The future of the Empire rides with you.
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very boring and way to complex
制作组自己玩过游戏吗,所有服务设施没有够的,,吃饭算是最高效的了,睡觉、厕所、洗澡永远不够,还经常出现睡觉和上厕所打架,尼玛睡完觉往房间门口拉一泡, 以及在下班时刻集中使用服务,一瞬间从0服务拉满,如果你的服务点数量不足,那就要等上一个用完下一个人再上,因此经常出现有些人精力条饱食度掉光了都等不到服务,然后随地大小便什么的,尼玛后面有空位了他又不去,宁可睡地板八小时,也不愿意睡七小时床,这个时点设计太坑了,以及服务效率太低 机制有点意思,但说他是半成品又算是过誉了
Worker management in this game is a nightmare. There are three different races all with different aptitudes: Orcs are strong and dumb, Elves are weak and smart, and humans are balanced. It's extremely beneficial to have all Elfin researchers, because for example an Orc will only generate research points half as fast, but the only way to actually control who takes a job is to build the workplace and then allow immigration of the kind of worker you want at the same time. Needless to say this only works once, when you create the structure. After that you have zero control over who takes jobs, so you'd better hope your elves all stay happily employed in that research facility. Otherwise it's going to be nearly impossible to restore it to a state of maximum productivity, because it's random who might take any of the 6 job slots in the facility. Next problem. Actually getting unemployed people to work. I had thought it would be a good idea to transfer employees between my engines and gathering facilities, because when you're moving you can't gather and when you're gathering you're not moving. Makes sense, right? Turns out there is no easy way to do this. You can freeze the facilities that you don't want in operation, but out of work citizens will not take new jobs until they become "poor" by spending the coins that they have. This often means that if you wanted to transfer citizens between jobs, that's not going to happen without a tremendous amount of down time as the worker in question slowly spends their coins on services until they finally feel poor enough to get a job. I didn't have as much trouble as others with getting my production chain up and running, but I acknowledge that there are ample opportunities for disaster as you need to research exactly the right things that the game wants in the right order with little room for error just to get everything working to the point of being able to survive. Aside from that, the game itself is pretty barren. Quests that I've seen so far are no more interesting than "Go Here." Boring, Barren, Bad. Bottom line, don't buy this one.
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Languages: English, Russian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Japanese
Hours played at review time, across 73 reviews with recorded playtime.
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O jogo em si é bom, mas precisa de ajustes.
第二底盤不好做 換新引擎的時候 跑起來有速度感了 10個清理的處理不完地上的廢物 地上已經100多個了.目標200個 這是一款在屎堆裡生存的遊戲 真好玩.不能只有我玩到
Really cool! Plenty of potential!
В демо версии из игры выжал больше чем предполагала игра. Сейчас застрял из-за того, что они не могут поднимать ресурсы с земли. И странно что я игру увидел через два месяца после выхода.
别买,官方可能已经跑路了
прикольная игрушка, гродострой в 2д, на подвижной платформе, где чтоб добыть нужны ресы, надо пройти несколько секторов. Явно есть хороший потенциал, но игрушку нужно еще допиливать... и много допиливать... В начале у вас очень ограниченные ресурсы, на которые вы ОБЯЗАНЫ построить первые постройки, и если вы хоть немного отклонитесь от плана, то вам просто не хватит на дальнейший прогресс, а за золото вы можете купить далеко НЕ все, что очень сильно ограничивает вас...
More broken than the demo was. For some reason my carriers just refuse to load coal into the engine so the train won't go anywhere, there's one guy stood around stuck at the coal thing which is possibly what is blocking. Freezing and unfreezing the engine has no effect. Disappointing as I found the demo very engaging
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