
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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Hab Derail Valley am Donnerstagabend gekauft und jetzt ist Sonntagabend. Irgendwie hab ich in der Zeit schon 38 Spielstunden geschafft. Ist ein gutes Spiel. Ich mag dass Derail Valley ins Detail geht und man zum Beispiel beim Kuppeln selbst die Bremsschläuche verbinden kann. Und wenn man mit viel Last einen steilen Berg rauf fährt, dann steigt die Temperatur des Antriebsstrangs stark an. Und bei Regen ist es rutschig auf den Schienen. Im Bezug auf die Fahrzeugtechnik ist das hier realistischer als in den meisten anderen Zugsimulationen. Die Strecken sind teilweise ein bisschen schmucklos, oder im Terrain ragen auf einmal Zacken aus dem Boden. Ist noch Early Access und ab und zu sieht man das. Ich hab erst zwei Baureihen freigeschaltet und hab in den ersten drei Tagen auch noch gar nicht alle Bahnhöfe auf der Map gesehen. Vom Umfang her wird auch jetzt schon viel geboten. Ich find den Spritverbrauch im Schwierigkeitsgrad "Realistisch" übertrieben hoch. Gefühlt ist schon nach 30 km der Tank leer, und man muss fast nach jeder 2. Tour irgendwo zum Tanken fahren und aufpassen, dass man nicht strandet. Aber das ist zum Glück eine Einstellungsmöglichkeit. Das Streckennetz ist herausfordernd aber nicht unmöglich, es gibt viele enge Kurven und starke Anstiege. Ich musste aber auch schon einen Zug am Berg aufteilen und mehrfach hochfahren, um alle Wagen auf den Gipfel zu bekommen, weil ich mich mit der Last etwas verschätzt hab. Achso: Derail Valley lässt sich problemlos auch ohne VR-Headset spielen. Ich bin mit nur Monitor, Maus und Tastatur bisher super zurecht gekommen
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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 82 reviews with recorded playtime.
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really nice game but quite frustating sometimes, you pay your mistakes but it adds challenge, hope to see passenger service at some point and maybe more electric locos ?? or even overhead wires if it doesn't denature the gameplay.
En el estado actual tiene más de 100 horas de juego, está muy pulido y engancha mucho, merece totalmente la pena. Gran juego.
Very fun once you get the hang of the controls, the map is very nice and the sound effects are great.
ride the rails!
its best if you play the game in vr
My autism loves this.
It's a relaxing train driving game, it's complex enough to feel engaging but not annoyingly so.
fun fun fun
great game/sim.
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