Platzkart Simulator

Platzkart Simulator

Released Jan 2021

Travel in a soviet platzkart train through Syberia

49% positive · 115 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Platzkart Simulator released on January 31, 2021 as a self-described atmospheric experience rather than a conventional game — a short, contained piece designed to evoke the mood of traveling in a Soviet-era train through Siberia. The store description makes no mention of planned updates, future content, expansions, or ongoing development. There are no DLC listings, no roadmap, and no developer news posts of any kind. The project appears to have launched as a complete, finished product with no post-launch content cycle ever established.
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Store description frames the project as a self-contained atmospheric experience — a 'digital dream' and cultural preservation piece — with no mention of updates, future content, or ongoing development.
description · Jan 31, 2021 source development ending
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Short description presents the game as a simple, complete experience: traveling in a Soviet platzkart train through Siberia.
store metadata · Jan 31, 2021 source development ending
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About this game

This is not quite a game in the usual sense.
It so happened that everything that has a program code and 3D graphics is called games.
We prefer to call this project something like a digital dream.
For the buyer, including in order not to be disappointed, it is important to understand that there is no "game" here. This is a piece of a dream, and even if it is packed in machine code, it is not a game



The project pays tribute to the post-Soviet culture and captures the memories of our generation, for us in the future, giving an opportunity to plunge into the past. In 20 years, there will be no such trains, and as long as there are people who can reproduce some fragment of the life of a generation, we need to take time and preserve it.






-Travel in train through Siberia. Lie on a bed impressively, sit at the table. Listen to the sound of wheels. Hear drunk men singing, people talking and snoring.

-Just look out the window at the falling snow and beautiful winter landscapes. Listen to post-hardcore, and just immerse into the atmosphere.

-Learn what's like in russian trains

-Beautiful graphics

-First person view

Controls:

1 -2 - 3 - 4 - 5 to change view modes
7 - enable chaos mode
Q - play music
Last evaluated Jun 24, 2026
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