Railroads Online Reviews

a desent sandbox railroad game that probbly started a trend of open world in the train simulation marketplace

As an early access title, there was much to look forward to. But to declare the game "released" in this state is really unacceptable. I'm no train purist, and I'm happy to simply play a train game for the sake of enjoying it. That the game is unintuitive is also forgivable. I'm not opposed to indie titles having a few bugs now and then either. However, this finished product seriously suffers. Some bugs are simply unforgivable; Issues where complex productions (such as oil) are simply dumped into the ether instead of the train should never have existed at release. Rampant audio issues (such as the same sound being played multiple times a fraction of a second out of phase) make the game unpleasant to play for long periods. Visual errors that show cars as unconnected (such as the skeleton car) make it frustrating to diagnose problems. Then to save the worst for last, the game is frustratingly nonfunctional with multiplayer with constant issues around host-client communication making it impossible to really play. That a map expansion *and* console release was rushed to production before the resolution of these kinds of foundational problems makes me seriously question the development priorities. I honestly cannot recommend this game to anyone - whether you like train games, like the idea of laying your own track, or want to play a multiplayer train game. This is not the title for you.

i saw many videos before buying. and i would like to say the game blew me away. it is so fun to play around with the highly detailed models and many locations with 100,000 hours of gameplay to do anything and everything your heart desires.

Despite a few bugs that are managable, RRO is one of the greatest narrow gauge railroad simulators I've come across. Do note, laying your own track is very difficult, I reccomend using a prelaid layout, the progress aspect is still there, to buy more equipment and such, while some may say it's glitchy or not worth the money, I can see that, but I am happy with the purchase and love the game.

fun to build tracks and drive on them. not fun hiting a tree and cargo goes flying.

new bug, cant connect car to trains. you know the main thing about this game.

The worse steam sim ever!!! Rails construction is a disaster, no any intuitive controls, lay rails by hand with no any calculation and input values control... physic of movement is not tuned, cars derailing even at very low speed... A lot of bugs and crashes... Loks like it is not a game but some kind of sandbox for some middle game developer....

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.

Game has been a buggy mess since day one, none of which have been fixed by devs, even after full release. Console is even worse with less features. Multiplayer is unplayable due to the client side stutter. They keep releasing silly updates but do not fix any core game play issues. Simply put, this game has turned into a cash grab thanks to the narrow gauge steam fad sweeping the younger foamers. Save your money for [strike]Railroads Online 2[/strike] Century of Steam.

I do NOT recommend this game at all! This game a screw you to the train community. This is a FINISHED product in the minds of Stefan and Astragon. A finished product?! Are you guys out of your mind?! There are so many missing features! So many missing QoL features, and so many things in this game that make zero sense. Why and how does a tree sapling that a HUMAN could just step on and break like paper cause a locomotive to derail?! How do you mess that up?! Why the hell does it whenever you buy multiple cars they spawn 7 feet apart?! Why do cars just randomly derail when you are doing only 20 mph in a curve that can be taken at 50+ mph?! And last but no least, how the hell does a TRAIN with 40k TE not be able to pull 20 EMPTY flat cars up a 3% grade?! Yet a train with only 28k TE can?! THIS GAME IS NOT DONE AND DO NOT BUY THIS. It a piece of train game garbage that needed more time to bake and needed much more work. If this is a finished product in their minds. I can't imagine what the future of their games will look like. DO NOT BUY THIS. I solely regret giving this publisher any of my money and my time on their garbage of a train game.