American Railroads - Summit River & Pine Valley
Released Apr 2018
Buy - Transport - Profit: Manage your own late 1800s railroad company, load and deliver freight, customize your vehicles and invest in upgrades while enjoying the realistic driving- and physics experience in a majestic mountain scenery.
50% positive · 206 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $19.99
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Evaluation
American Railroads - Summit River & Pine Valley launched on April 20, 2018 as a fully finished product. The developer explicitly states in the store description: "This never was, is or will be an Early Access title. It was launched in 2018 as a full title."
After launch, the game received a series of substantial updates — Update 1.2 (June 10, 2018), Update 1.4 (July 18, 2018), a preview of Update 1.5 (December 2018), and the full Update 1.5 (January 20, 2020) — adding first-person controls, new locomotives, track building, and other major features. An October 2020 progress post showed additional work in progress (new locomotive, mine, trestles), which was followed by the full release of Update 1.5 in January 2020.
In August 2021, the developer announced that all future development effort had shifted to a brand-new, separate game called "RAILROADS Online!" built in Unreal Engine 4 with multiplayer support — a feature that couldn't be achieved in the Unity engine powering this game. The developer explicitly stated that American Railroads would be kept as-is ("keeping it as the nice little Unity game for you to enjoy") while the successor launched on October 1, 2021. The store description reinforces this, noting that "RAILROADS Online!" is the successor and is available on Steam.
The last developer communication specifically about this game's own content dates to the Update 1.5 release (January 20, 2020), with subsequent posts in 2021 focused entirely on the successor title. No further updates, DLC, or content announcements have been made for this game since. There are no unreleased DLC entries and no outstanding commitments. The game is complete.
Evidence
Developer announces that all future development is moving to a brand-new separate game, RAILROADS Online!, built in Unreal Engine 4. American Railroads will remain unchanged as the original Unity-based game.
Update 1.5 released, adding first-person controls, new vehicles, track building, and many other major features. This is the last content update shipped for American Railroads.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Stefan Kelnberger
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
American Railroads - Summit River and Pine Valley" is a first person railroad simulation
Set in the steam era, at the turn of the 19th century the core game focuses expanding your transportation business.
Load and handle freight, build your own railroad tracks or steer and maintain your vehicles while maximizing your profits.
The game includes a variety of highly detailed and fully animated vehicles with realistic sound and behavior. Gauges, bars, levers, etc. are all interactive!
Built with the latest version of the Unity Game engine, the physics system accurately simulates the behavior of all locomotives, cars and freight just like in the real world!
Post processing effects like vignetting and depth of field really make your rolling stock stand out.
So grab some pieces of firewood, toss them in the boiler and set your throttle to full steam!
Core features
Set in the steam era, at the turn of the 19th century the core game focuses expanding your transportation business.
Load and handle freight, build your own railroad tracks or steer and maintain your vehicles while maximizing your profits.
The game includes a variety of highly detailed and fully animated vehicles with realistic sound and behavior. Gauges, bars, levers, etc. are all interactive!
Built with the latest version of the Unity Game engine, the physics system accurately simulates the behavior of all locomotives, cars and freight just like in the real world!
Post processing effects like vignetting and depth of field really make your rolling stock stand out.
So grab some pieces of firewood, toss them in the boiler and set your throttle to full steam!
Core features
- - Realistic transportation of logs along a scenic route
- - Fully steerable, kinematically simulated locomotives with working Stephenson valve gear, rods, pistons, axles, bell etc.
- - Interactable tender, cars and crane with firewood, freight and accessories
- - Interactable switches, turntables and track
- - Realistic vehicle sounds and particles
- - 10 track audio soundtrack
- - This never was, is or will be an Early Access title. It was launched in 2018 as a full title
- - The successor to this game is called "RAILROADS Online!" It was built from ground up in the Unreal Engine 4 to be suited specifically for multiplayer. The multiplayer feature was the no. 1 wish of the community but could not be achieved in the Unity Engine, hence it got a separate game: "Railroads Online!" is availabe on Steam on 1st October 2021
- - This was my first game ever. You may encounter bugs. Please be gentle in the reviews ^^ Thank you and have fun!
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