
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
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Drive massive trains across beautiful, challenging landscapes. Deliver cargo between industries, spread over an open world. Earn money, buy new licenses and advance your career as a train engineer, all in seamless, emergent experience. For PC and VR.

256 km² of unrestricted open world, where you can walk or drive trains uninterrupted. Covered in rich vegetation, landscape, water bodies, and an extensive railroad network, the world spans numerous diverse industries and towns. Experience seamless day and night cycles, with dynamic clouds, fog, rain and sounds spicing it all up. Change switches, drive, haul and leave trains at desired locations - the choice is yours.

Advance your career by taking deliveries and earning money. Master efficient driving and look after vehicles to minimize fuel and repair costs. Buy new items and licenses that grant you access to more vehicles and orders. Optionally, you can also play in sandbox mode where economy is not in focus - where you can just have fun doing anything you want without consequences.

Take part in a dynamic industrial chain, where deliveries are procedurally generated for more than 80 cargo types. The output of locations varies, and almost no two deliveries are the same. Haul cargo between industries, or do the shunting and logistics that help the stations create more deliveries. Pick orders and move cargo as desired, according to your own plans, licensing and hauling capacity.

Experience in-depth intricacies of six realistic, accurate steam and diesel locomotive classes with varying transmission types, plus some extra vehicles. Through behavior, sounds, physics and interaction, their characteristics are designed to fully immerse and challenge you. On top of that, you'll find yourself spontaneously involved in coupling, servicing, brake securing, shunting and other railroad procedures.

As a side activity, you may find yourself investing time and money finding and restoring unique locomotive variant derelicts, which you can then customize with numerous useful gadgets. Gadgets are various devices that can improve driving performance, such as digital speedometers, clinometers, colored ambient lights, distance trackers, etc. You can buy them in shops and install them wherever you want, using various tools.

Built from the ground up for both PC and VR, Derail Valley lets you experience it spatially present with the supported mainstream PC VR devices - truly inside the simulator and using your own hands to operate the controls. This is the ultimate, closest experience to being a real railroader! You can seamlessly alternate your progress between the PC and VR sessions, as you prefer.

Be it a derailment, collision, blown traction motor, boiler explosion, brake failure, HAZMAT disaster or even something as mild as wheelslip on a rainy slope, Derail Valley doesn't just present you with a popup screen when you make a mistake - you get to experience the full consequences of your actions, even if they're a rare occurrence.
Whether you are new to trains or an experienced veteran, the game features tutorials that are quick to get you going. A comprehensive user manual also exists, for when you want to dive deep into the details.

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I have only just started playing this, but i am already loving it. There is amazing detail, progression is great so far and is just overall super satisfying to play. I will definitely be sinking a bit of time into this game
If you're like me, and didn't know a train from a trolly before you got this game then expect it to be a learning curve. I had no idea about any train operations or even really how a train moved. The tutorial is very helpful but most of the game is "figure it out" which i LOVE. There isn't really any handholding. I love all things simulator and logistics so this game really scratches an itch. I can see myself sinking HUNDREDS of hours into this. Other games I like: American Truck Simulator Rimworld MotorTown(BEST!!) Satisfactory Elite Dangerous(Just for delivery and passenger missions) City Skylines BeamNG
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian +4 more
Hours played at review time, across 66 reviews with recorded playtime.
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surprisingly fun game, UI is a little Clunky but it plays well. i just bought it and already have 9 hours.
this is a fantastic game, it has so many different features and different locomotives and i like how it is kinda like real life and it is so addicitng and fun to play
its okay rather have sandbox as a sandbox rather than unlocking everything something dosent add up
It is truly an amazing scenery. There are some small graphical issues with the terrain clipping into the rail line, but you can easily see past that, as well as the small glitches that happen from time to time. I haven't driven a locomotive in real life before, so I can't say how accurate it is in the game, but I feel the immersion when going down the line and being around the curves, and I look back at all the cargo carts that I'm hauling. I often lose all sense of time when playing. And talking about the bends, a little piece of advice: Don't get cocky about the speed... it can drop from 60–80 km/h to 30 in no time...
Immersive train sim with lots of mods available.
fun worth 80 bucks
I have always wanted to drive a train and this game delivers the experience better than any other. The map gets repetitive with the best freight always going to the same places.
Just an absolutely amazing sim. If you like trains and the concept of actually handling the cars, shunting, fueling, repairing, and routing sound interesting to you, then you'll love it. It has strong RPG elements, and it gives a definite feeling that you've earned all your upgrades and setup and locos themselves. Default is a very fast progression, but again, they hit it on the head with the difficulty profile system. You can be fast progressing, and no worries, all the way up to slow progressing and lots of logistics and planning (omg my steam engine is running out of water, the next fill will be cutting it close!). An extra note: they have a very robust and well-implemented game controller system. If you have a HOTAS, you know this is rare. I control everything with levers, buttons and toggle switches (actual toggle, constant ons) and the game just treats everything in a sensible way. Entire AAA software and game companies could learn a lot from this team. Not just engineers, but especially the management and decision makers. It's just great, that's all you need to know!
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