Derail Valley Reviews

amazing game great controls and beutiful graphics

THE best train sim. highly addictive. high skill cap the more you play. i wish it had multiplayer, map creation tool, and more locomotives. excited for all the updates. worth every penny.

Amazing train sim game. Worth getting even at full price!

If you like trains, this game is for you! If you like huge explosions, this game is for you! If you like shooting games, this game ISN'T for you. If you like open world type games, this game is for you! If you like off-roading, this game ISN'T for you. If you like to mess around in a creative mode of sorts, this game is for you! If you like space games, this game ISN'T for you.

So I Tried this but it was a very slow start its a good game if you like a grind but for me the gameplay was way too slow

I love this game. It's super fun and I can't wait for future updates

One of the most enjoyable train games that I've played. There is an awesome amount of depth to this game without it being too muchfor new players. I am counting down the days for B100!

best train game i've played so far, gives a lot of freedom to the player: setting up locomotives, assembling trains, choosing jobs/routes. also has crashes/accidents, for those who are into this stuff

Yes, this game is worth that steep price tag; Nobody had been able to explain that to me previously and this sat on my wishlist for ages for that reason alone. You don't need to be a previous fan of trains and locomotives to enjoy this game, you can go into this with zero knowledge of how anything works; Not only will Derail Valley teach you to play, but it will turn you into a genuine rail fan in the process. Train simulators were previously lackluster for me, they always featured incredibly in-depth machines but wedged them into the worst scenario-based "campaign" structures that removed any sense of progressions and sense of accomplishment (looking at you TSW). Derail Valley has fixed that. No scenarios, no scores, no medals to unlock, just one perpetual open world where you make the decisions, plan your routes, coordinate your jobs, and progress by unlocking new licenses and learning to drive new locomotives. This is a genuinely great title already despite being in Early Access and the road map to the full version shows just how much more potential it has. I'm sure it's also great in VR (as a primarily VR game) but the desktop experience feels just as natural. One point I feel I need to bring up is that the devs need to put more work into marketing this, it feels like an incredibly risky purchase due to it's high price tag and the fact that you never see anyone talking about this. It's earned a cult-following status not because it's a niche title, but because nobody knows what it's like to play it. More players = higher budget and Derail Valley is ready for that kind of attention.

Genuinely one of my favourite games on Steam. This game blows other train simulators out of the water with its quality over quantity approach. TL;DR - This sim has soul that only an indie studio can create, and I'd highly recommend. If the devs walked away now, you'd still have a complete product in my eyes and would not feel ripped off at the price they sell this game for. At time of writing this, I believe there are two steam engines and at least 4 diesel locomotives in the game. Each one feels authentic and like a machine that has real moving parts rattling inside rather than being a 3D model with sounds attached. An example of what I mean is that when you play something like train simulator world, the locations are good enough, trains look high quality and have relatively high textures; but they don't feel like breakable pieces of engineering. They are just button presses on a keyboard. In TSW if you fail the screen dims and you get kicked back to the main menu for daring to have fun and push the machines to their limits. That isn't the case here. After the recent update that revamped the original steam engine, all trains currently in the game feel like they were made. They rattle, wobble and run as you would expect them to in real life. They are somewhat delicate too, something that significantly adds to the experience. One incorrect gear change on one of the early game diesel engines and you can ruin the engine. Forget to add water to your steam engine and it'll go boom. This isn't some game where you can push forward and look at another monitor or your phone.