Railroads Online

Open World· Trains· Building· Automobile Sim

Released Dec 2024

Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!

74% positive · 6,035 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

Medium confidence

Done

All announced content has been released

Medium confidence

Where to buy

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Evaluation

Railroads Online officially launched out of Early Access on December 5, 2024 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. During its Early Access period, the developer maintained a very active update cadence, shipping 6 major content updates between late 2022 and the 1.0 launch — including the Winter Update with the Aurora Falls map (February 2024), the Map & Spline Update (June 2024), the Anniversary Update (October 2024), and finally the full release update adding the Mesa Plains map (December 2024). Major updates during Early Access arrived roughly every 2–4 months. The 1.0 launch on December 5, 2024 was presented explicitly as the culmination of this development journey, with the developer writing "We're finally here! Today, we are beyond excited to celebrate the big milestone we have been passionately working towards for such a long time." Both DLC items (Pioneer DLC and Explorer DLC) were released on that same launch day, and no unreleased DLC is listed on the store. Since the December 5, 2024 launch, the only post-launch communication was a hotfix on December 18, 2024 — a bug fix patch addressing issues reported by the community after the full release. There have been no developer communications of any kind since December 18, 2024. As of today, September 24, 2026, that means no developer posts in over 21 months. The established major content cadence during Early Access was roughly every 2–4 months. The current silence of over 21 months far exceeds three times that cadence window. The developer has not announced any future content, expansions, new DLC, or roadmap for the post-launch period. The full release was framed as the completion of a long development journey, not a new beginning, and no post-launch content commitment has been communicated. The game launched as a complete package at 1.0, and the evidence supports treating December 5, 2024 as the date the content was complete.

Evidence

Full release post explicitly frames the 1.0 launch as the major milestone the team has been working toward, summarizing 9 content updates over Early Access and presenting the launch as the culmination of the development journey.

news post · Dec 5, 2024 source development ending

high

Pioneer DLC released on launch day; no unreleased DLC listed on the store.

dlc listing · Dec 5, 2024 source content shipped

medium

Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content

Released

Railroads Online - Pioneer DLC

Dec 2024

Released

Railroads Online - Explorer DLC

Dec 2024

Media

Details

Developer

Stefan Kelnberger

Publisher

astragon Entertainment

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

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Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

Trains Open World Building Automobile Sim Physics Sandbox Driving Immersive Sim Team-Based Exploration Economy Management First-Person Family Friendly Nature

About this game

Set in a huge open world reminiscent of the Americas during the golden age of steam trains, Railroads Online puts you in the role of a pioneer helping to shape the future of America. Build tracks, traverse vast landscapes in various steam locomotives, transport goods to earn money, and customize and buy new locomotives and equipment as you grow to become a railroad tycoon. Play alone or with up to 15 friends in the online cooperative multiplayer mode on 4 different large maps including Lake Valley, Aurora Falls, Pine Valley and Mesa Plains.

Tracks, trains & more

Design your dream rail network from the ground up. Explore the world, scout the best route and lay down embankments, switches, turntables and more. Select and build tracks, bridges and other infrastructure buildings afterwards. Then cross the vast, open landscape in finely detailed locomotives and wagons. Interact with regulators, valves, brakes, couplers, and many more features in first-person view as you drive your vehicles. But you won't simply be driving around aimlessly! Your mission is to build up your company by transporting goods across the country, including timber, ore, coal, cattle, gold and other various freight items for a broad variety of industries. Earn money for every successful shipment and invest in new vehicles or upgrade and customize your existing locomotives. Plus: build stations, yards, and other infrastructure along your routes to service your trains with fuel, water, and sand. You can also build up a wide variety of iconic buildings and objects to create a beautiful surrounding for your railroad network.

Experience the Railroad Sandbox with up to 16 players

Enjoy a realistic railroad experience with the advanced Unreal Engine physics system for deep railroad simulation. All collisions and forces are rendered dynamically in real time, making the train driving experience much more immersive. So, be careful about derailing your train! And to top it all off, you can play Railroads Online with up to 15 players on a server and enjoy the ultimate train simulation in multiplayer sessions with your friends. Lay tracks together and cooperate to move trains seamlessly or share the work while you play independently. It’s also possible to save and load your progress, so you can enjoy the best tracks or most creative layouts again and again.

If you like trains, start your journey today!