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Train Life: A Railway Simulator
Developer Simteract
For the first time in railroad simulation, play as both the driver and company director! Take the controls of your locomotives and grow your railway empire by negotiating deals and developing your network. From the Steam store page
178 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
36
Rotten
64 positive · 112 negative
95% range 30–44%
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| Steam reviews | 64 | 112 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
2 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,071 of 1,696 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 178 · most liked firstUnfortunately the publisher abandoned the game before it could reach it's full potential.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dont buy this game, 2 years since any update of any kind or any word of any updates
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandonware. Last update is from December 2022... Big sad as the idea was awesome!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Massive bugs + unfinished. There is no more fix & update it's just another abandoned game. Now they are focusing new game for launching at 2024 to get more cash. I will not buy Nacon games anymore.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is dead!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm having actually a lot of fun with the game despite it's bugs and shortcomings. I had only 1 crash bug in 100 hours though but no problem due to frequent auto saves. Gameplay is very similar to ETS2 or ATS2 which are also favorite games of mine. You search for freight on the map, go there, pick it up and deliver it to it's destination. All cities have up to 3 goods they need in certain quantities and when they get them they "level" and provide bonusses. There are also production chains to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll start with the positive. This game taught me to double check the publisher before purchasing. Because I will NEVER buy another half-baked Nacom game ever again. It's clear that Nacom wants to make games as cheaply as possible & then recoup via discounted sales. This could have been a really good game had they bothered to finish it. As is, however, it's terrible. * "Random" encounters are just copy/pasted busy work. * The signals don't always work. * Occasionally wagons will…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has potential, but it has many flaws in its design. For starters, you start with a boring tutorial. And the management of the company is confusing and not very intuitive. Not to mention that the developers seem to have abandoned the game and no longer made updates. In short, it's not worth paying for it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandonware, and the game is still unfinished.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great concept, poor execution. Lots of bugs that still haven't been fixed since Early Access. Abandoned because the devs are working on their next game called Taxi Life. Obviously removed that other game from my wish list. No more Nacon / Simteract games for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is abandoned!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't expect any updates, the devs bailed on this shortly after launch. Could've been a great game, especially if you're looking for a less involved train sim game that is relaxing. Won't buy any of their products again though. Too bad they didn't properly communicate with the players of this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At the surface the game seems interesting, but there are critical flaws in it: Nice things - Graphics are fine - Tutorial seems fine mostly - Tons of trains you could theoretically buy Bad things - If train switching is as bad as in this game, no wonder there are so many derailments each year worldwide. - When a train is coming the other direction, nothing tells you which track they are on - The train is sometimes on the right track, which it's not supposed to be - The block signals are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cash grab scam - abandoned after 6 months....
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GAME HAS BEEN ABANDONED!!!! Source: their discord.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was fun game when it was released, but then they started to cut the some features - radio was cut off from the game when you compare versions. Now? Game that is forgotten by its makers. No bugs will be fixed. Don't waste your money. Edit a year or so later: Nacon publisher has filed for bankruptcy. Don't.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was pretty fun at first but now it's become abandonware.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too bad it has been abandoned
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →started off well but abandoned. ♥♥♥♥ you dev.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game. Looking for an easy to control "pick up and play" train sim like Euro Truck and American Truck sims?? This is it. Big map with lots of cities and industries to deliver people and goods to and from. You and the cities level up as you progress and service the cities. Nice big, populated world that looks really nice. Runs well with no bugs. Oh! And it's not abandoned! It's just finished! Yeah, it doesn't have a thousand DLCs to buy, but this is what it is and it's well worth the asking…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this to play on my Steam Deck, it actually runs very well, it's a nice chill game however... I can't recommend it, simply because it's completely abandoned since December 2022. It severely lacks content. If you get it on sale for cheap like I did why not. But sadly it was a nice concept that just died.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its a shame this game got abandoned it ran better and had more things to do than dovetails Train sim World but i cant recommend it as it is unfinished if the devs come back and work on it again maybe i will but at the moment dont buy it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →nahhh just go get derail valley instead. Not realistic at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In terms of simulation depth, it’s certainly not Derail Valley, and it seems to be built on Unity or something similar. But the graphics are still nice, and the scale is aiming for the heights of Euro Truck Simulator, plus it has a decent economy system. The optimization, by the way, is actually quite good, unlike the Train Sim World series. Good optimization alone lets you forgive a lot — especially the rather simple game design. Honestly, it’s a good game with an interesting concept. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT PURCHASE!!!!!!! This game is a disaster waiting to happen. Lot's of crashing, and at some point you will be in the middle of a job and just about to deliver, and the game will crash just prior to entering the delivery depot. It will continuously crash at that same point, meaning you can't get your item delivered or move on from that job, so therefore you are completely stuck. It will continuously crash at that same point. And to top it off, the developer and publisher have abandoned this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's dead. No Update since Dec '22
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I almost skipped this one because of some of the reviews, but for $2 during the Summer Sale I figured it was worth the gamble. Turns out, I wouldn't have been mad at it for retail! It's a fun little indie sim built around running a railway company, progressing through a career and skill system, and, of course, driving a loco. More or less an RPG about being a train engineer that owns a company, pretty much like what it says it is. I am going to do something new and attack the most negative…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's such a shame as the publisher abandoned the game before it could reach it's full potential. The thing is that it was really good to begin with and could have been a contender to Train Sim.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was fun to play, and probably still can be. But it's been abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great concept on paper. Then turned into abadonware :/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It´s an abandoned, buggy game. Please don´t buy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dead game. Don't buy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a weird premise when I buy a game. That is, to be able to play it. Since my laptop is rather old and not suitable for gaming at all (the poor thing tries, I´ll give him that), the recurrent lowlevelerror upon loading was, in my mind, because of it. That is, untill I started digging the interwebs and discovering that the problem happens even with super-duper gaming machines. It is unnaceptable that no one seems to be adressing the issue, and I don´t care if it´s about some unreal 4…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The intention with this game was to be like the truck sim games but with trains and the concept is there and there's some good to it. You take contract jobs or straight cargo from production to transformation or to consumers. It's like Truck Sim with the added progression of city levels where similar to Transport Fever delivering enough of the correct stuff ranks up cities. You get to make money and spend it, you can hire drivers to automate jobs. Passengers is also a type of cargo which you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately, the game's devs have abandoned it, and there is currently no indication that it will undergo additional development. not even fixes for bugs. The game may currently be played; the only remaining problems are a few track segments scattered across the area, which you can memorise with enough practise. The game's other systems all function as planned (although jankily due to poor design), and you can still finish the game's tasks. The GPS functions, and (once you figure out how)…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a good train sim game, a bit like Euro Truck Simulator on rails but it has some bugs. One bug is at certain points on the track it takes about a minute to load in the actual terrain and track objects so it brings your train to a complete halt until they have loaded in. The track scaling to real life and distances between signals can be a bit tight at times, with a red signal showing after just a few meters of a yellow signal. However there's a lot to like about the game and on discount…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good potential, very underwhelming execution. If devs stayed onboard and kept honing it, it could be good, but it seems they are gone.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is dead, no more updates
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →had high hopes, but its abandoned :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandon, bugged.... So sad nice concept, ETS with trains.... Can't say buy because this game is full game but looks like demo...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Although it looked nice when it was launched, the lack of support from the devs if outrageous. After some hours, you will notice that AI or the game when it comes to handling AI is completely random and lacks sense (trains will spawn in front of you, good luck stopping in time) Also, GPS is flawed, it simply cant keep up, showing random distances every once in a while. Too bad, i thought it was going to be some real competition to Train sim. But it cant compete...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wasted money on a game that got abandoned shortly after buying it. Awesome
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was an interesting idea, that I thought would combine the best of two generations - railroad management and rail simulators. Instead it mostly does the opposite and combines the worst of them. Pros - 1. Clean and pretty graphics. 2. Ability to switch tracks on the fly adds a nice touch of navigation management during driving. Cons - 1. The gameworld is scaled down to be extremely short that it takes 30 minutes to go from London to Paris. So essentially despite the map in theory covering…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dont buy it like i did. was enjoying it then Nacon made simteract abandon it and they all got moved to taxi life game. the game has many bugs, some complain of it crashing many times and for them to abandon it in the condition it is smacks of contempt for the customer. i will not buy anything that Nacon publish in the future and that includes the robocop game i like the look of. just cannot trust a publisher like this. nothing short of a cash grab. dreadful
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfinished abandonware.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot recommend this game. The gameplay is nowhere near being realistic, it looks the devs have no relationship with railways and didn't bother making any research at all. For example the emergency brake - it's only used, as the name implies, in emergencies, not in stations and common operations; and it takes some time for the pressure to build up again after using it, not that it releases the minute you turn it off!? And this could have easily been a great game and I would love it to be.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This kids is why you should never support Early Access games.... Abandonware
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned and full of bugs, developers prefer to work on Taxi Life, which for sure will be abandoned and full of bugs as well. If you buy this game in this state, you're not the smartest person on the planet...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a chat with one of the developers. He was a very nice guy, we had a great long chat, so it pains me to have to really really not recommend this game. First of all: the game is full of bugs. There is a reason that they have not been fixed. You can agree or disagree with why this is the case, but you should think of this game as abandoned and those bugs will never be fixed. And the bugs are bad: trains popping up in front of you, making you crash and pay big to recover, signals not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned game! Full of bugs. It's a shame because the game had a lot of potential.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think this game had a lot of potential. It was ment to be a less involved train-sims (ETS2/ATS esque but not as deeply immersed). I'm not going to recommend this because me as many others feel betrayed by the developers who took our money and ran,.. to just create another ***-Life game and leave that in development hell. This game is dead and it will never be completed... the amount of times me playing this game and having a green signal only for an NPC train to be on the same track as me...…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Many have said that this is ETS2 for trains. That seems about right. A more casual version of other rail sims, which suits me just fine and may suit you too. Graphics, gamplay, systems etc all good without being great. I bought it as it was on a deep sale, just to 'give it a go' - result being, that I am having quite a bit of chill fun with it. It is a pity that it (clearly) did not sell well, if the devs/publisher would have stuck it out and opened up modding, this really could have been as…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got another gift today, this time it's a digital copy of "Train Life: A Railway Simulator"!! I've had this game on my wishlists for quite some time now. @gaijinmommy.bsky.social 's posts of her kiddo enjoying trains, and their post about train stuff inspired it getting on the wishlist, lol 🚂 #NSLite
unlabelledView post →It's okay to get on sale for 2€ but I would't recommend spending more than that. It was certainly the most underwhelming train-game experience I've had to date. Yes the graphics are fancy, but audio-wise there is just... nothing, the driving characteristics are so casual that they aren't really challenging (and thus fun) and the whole economy simulation/running your own company aspect had been handled better in other games. It's extremely casual, lacks any depth and satisfying gameplay. If…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A decent Train Simulator/Euro Truck Sim hybrid which I'm really enjoying playing. Sadly seems that development on it has halted, so no further bugfixes or content are coming- but if you like train games, and it's in a steam sale, I still recommend it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game was fine as a concept, not really too much to expect from the game (more arcade-y model-like train simulator than something realistic), definitely had promise to be something a bit more fun if worked on and polished, but then it was abandoned 6 months after release. If it was more finished and regularly updated I'd maybe recommend it as a more relaxing Train Simulator meets Euro Truck Simulator experience for casual players, but since it's not worked on anymore definitely AVOID
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good, if not a little bit buggy, niche game. Unfortunately, it has been abandoned, and in the state it has been left, i cannot in good faith recommend it. Try Derail Valley, or even Euro Truck Simulator 2, if you want a similar game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Normally I'd play more than 6 hours before attempting a review, but it's blatantly obvious from the moment you start the tutorial that this game has major issues. This is a train driving arcade game, that honestly has a closer resemblance to Outrun from 1986, than it does any kind of simulator. It's not a terrible game, but it's also not all that good. At best, I'd say it's mediocre with a lot of room for improvement, but at this point it's unlikely that improvement will ever happen. It feels…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just refunded: it's, basically, a pretty decent game, less difficult than Derail, but more straight to play. Unfortunately, it's basically impossible to play. The path system is totally useless and you never know when you will encounter a speed limit or a sequence of them. Also, the other trains on the system have a terrible AI path! You will find yourself in need to emergency braking from 120 km/h to zero in seconds!!! A real shame, it would be a 7 on 10 for me, but this problems totally ruins…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Casual Ride on the Rails - Train Life: A Railway Simulator Train Life: A Railway Simulator may not be the most polished or feature-rich railway simulation game on the market, but it still manages to deliver an enjoyable experience for those with a casual interest in trains. However, it's essential to note that the game is no longer in development, which means it has its limitations and may not meet the expectations of more hardcore simulation enthusiasts. One of the positive aspects of…
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