
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 4/day in the week to Jul 21 → 28.4/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
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.

Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
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Reviews
Themes across 964 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
My autism is thriving
I like trains. A fun chill game for people who like trains. Yes you can derail and no it's not fun.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian +4 more
Hours played at review time, across 967 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I don't often write reviews (too much of a novice...LOL). This game is fun to play and a quite a bit challenging, when you're hauling a 1.1km train in excess of 3Kt from one corner of the map to the opposite corner, on a track where the speed limits are constantly changing, not to mention the weather, and you're still trying to make a deadline... The graphics are great, the controls are great, the game has a nice "hands-on" feel to it, for this I would give the game 5 stars. However, there are some serious downsides, 1) Why is it always raining, in 135 hours game time, I have never left the harbour in dry weather, never made even a short trip without rain, this needs to be dialled-down a bit more. 2) The frustration of trying to find all the restoration projects with no clues or hints means you will spend hours searching, I still can't find the S060. This level of frustration breaks the game for me and gets a rating of -2 Stars. 3) There are a few bugs, such as mouse clicks picking couplers instead of pipes, the remote that flashes when you use it in the museum, but overall not too many. I would recommend this game if you can handle the frustration. Happy Hauling.
tren
What an amazing train sim, the updates take a very long time, but the devs are very passionate.
Finally bought it after years of playing it "Somewhere else" ;). This is [i] the [/i] ultimate train game. Forget Train Sim Classic, forget Train Sim World's yearly recycled garbage. This doesnt have real-life locomotives that are modeled down to every rivet. What it does have is extremely engaging and fun gameplay that makes you feel more like you're driving a real train than any other train game everhas, or probably will. The only downside I have with the game is the fact the map is quite small scaled, there is never a big strecth where you can open up the throttle cause you're consantly going trough small mountain passes. Other than that this game is perfect. The Early Acess (EA) state of the game is also pretty much a non-issue. I don't buy EA games usually, but I bought this, cause even if they stop updates on it today this game will be considered finished by many. So you're not buying this based on a vague promise like so many other EA titles. You're buying it cause its the best train game TODAY. 10/10
Wer den "RailDriver Desktop Controller" für Derail Valley nutzen möchte und unter Windows 10/11 verzweifelt, weil das Gerät ständig die Verbindung verliert (zB. doppelter USB-Sound beim Spielstart, Display zeigt nur "USB" oder bleibt schwarz), hier ist die Lösung, die mir Stunden an Recherche erspart hätte: Das Problem: Moderne USB 3.0/3.1 Ports (die blauen/roten am Mainboard) sind "zu schnell" für den alten Chip im RailDriver. Bei mir war es bei jeglichen USB-Port so, auch schwarze Buchsen. Die Lösung: Nutzt einen alten, billigen USB 2.0 HUB (aktiv oder passiv) als Zwischenstück! Der Hub agiert als "Dolmetscher" zwischen der modernen PC-Hardware und dem betagten RailDriver-Chip. Mit einem alten USB-Hub hat der PC den Controller direkt erkannt. Zusatz-Tipps für Derail Valley: Rechtsklick auf das Spiel in Steam -> Eigenschaften -> Controller -> Steam Input deaktivieren. Der Text ist großteils KI generiert, aber eigene Recherche, Erfahrungen und meine Worte stecken da mit drin. Das alles sagt zwar nichts über meine Spielerfahrung in Derail Valley aus, aber als ich gesehen habe, dass dieser Controller unterstützt wird, war das für mich meine Kaufentscheidung. So groß war dann aber auch der Frust, als er nicht erkannt wurde. Bei mir hat der alte USB-Hub geholfen und nun kann ich anfangen das Spiel zu genießen. ps. Im Tutorial funktioniert er noch nicht, erst danach! Wenn nur einer weiteren Person dadurch geholfen wird, haben sich meine Worte gelohnt!
Игра которая помогла мне осуществить несбыточную мечту детства - почувствовать себя в роли машиниста. Как большому любителю ЖД тематики и неудавшейся мечты стать машинистом игра мне зашла
Великолепная игра для того, чтобы вкатиться в довольно нишевый жанр симуляторов железнодорожных перевозок. Игра сделана с огромной любовью к железной дороге и, самое главное, с большой любовью к игроку. Однозначно рекомендую всем, кто засматривается на железнодорожные симуляторы, но переживает из-за высокого порога входа. В VR игра тоже работает отлично, заметно усиливая ощущение погружения.
It's a train game that's fun to play and isn't Dovetail's money farm, do I need to say more?
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