Infinite Rails

I hate to say it, because there’s clearly some potential here, but I’d probably hold off on buying Infinite Rails for now. In its current Early Access state (since June 20, 2025), it feels rough in ways that are hard to ignore; everything from the graphics to the UI and core gameplay has a dated, early-2000s vibe that hasn’t yet been meaningfully modernized. There are still immersion-breaking bugs too, like being able to casually walk your driver straight through the wall of a moving locomotive, which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. While the procedural terrain generation is a nice foundation, the absence of prebuilt industries means you’re stuck building an entire economy from scratch instead of interacting with a living world, which makes the experience feel more like a sandbox chore than a simulation. There’s promise here, but right now it feels more like a concept than a game worth paying for.

It’s a train game with track building similar to Railroads Online, but it does enough to set itself apart. It’s still in early access and currently only has three locomotives, but it already includes features that Railroads Online doesn’t, like passengers and signals. The map is basically limitless, which opens up the possibility for absolutely massive rail networks, and there’s some basic terraforming that’s planned to be expanded later. One downside is that finding the perfect starting seed can be a bit tedious, especially if you want your main station right at spawn. It’s very much a work in progress, and there isn’t a ton of content yet for people who are more into operating trains than building them. That said, if you enjoy laying track and designing railways, there’s still a lot of fun to be had. Performance-wise, it’s decent. Generating new chunks can cause some lag spikes, but since it’s built in Unity rather than Unreal, it actually runs better on my laptop than Railroads Online. The locomotives are mostly Eastern European (the ChME3 and T 211), with one British engine, the Class 08. I haven’t really tried multiplayer yet, so I can’t say much about that.

⭐️ Review for Infinite Rails ⭐️ I’ve enjoyed my time with Infinite Rails and yes it is under an hour. For a Unity-based title, the visuals are solid, and the core concept of progressing from simple track layouts to more complex networks is engaging and well thought through. 👍 What’s Working Well Graphics & Presentation: Clean and effective visuals for a Unity game; track placement feels satisfying and readable. Core Concept: The freedom to build from basic lines to intricate sidings and junctions is the game’s strongest asset and clearly the foundation to build on. 🎓 Experience Context For transparency, I’ve logged thousands of hours in Train Sim Classic since 2012 and have uploaded multiple routes over the years. Route and world building is something I genuinely enjoy and spend a lot of time doing. That’s the lens I’m viewing Infinite Rails through. Right now, the game isn’t quite at the point where I could comfortably sink the same kind of long-form hours into creating massive, persistent worlds — but the potential is absolutely there. 💡 Constructive Feedback Editing View: First-person-only editing feels restrictive when planning large-scale layouts. A top-down or planning view would be a major quality-of-life improvement and would dramatically improve long-session usability. World Structure & Purpose: Games like Transport Tycoon benefit from preplaced cities, industries, and demand points on procedurally generated maps. If Infinite Rails already includes this, I couldn’t find it. If not, adding it would give world-building more direction and long-term motivation. 🐞 Bug Encountered I wasn’t able to complete the tutorial. It stalled around task 22/23 during the log cabin explanation — the prompt says “press any key to continue,” but nothing responds. Because of this, I likely missed part of the intended onboarding and had to move into solo mode to work things out manually. Bottom line: Infinite Rails has strong fundamentals and a clear vision. With improved planning tools, clearer world objectives, and a fixed tutorial flow, it could become a game I happily spend hundreds — if not thousands — of hours in.

The game isn’t bad and it has quite a few interesting ideas. I think it has a lot of potential. However, since it is still in Early Access, I’m not sure what the developers are planning for the future or whether the project will continue to be developed.

По состоянию на 8 февраля 2026 года СИЛЬНО НЕ РЕКОМЕНДУЮ данную игру к покупке. Причин несколько. Игра практически пустая, есть только 3-5 функционирующих зданий, убогая ( можно сказать отсутствующая ) экономика (продукция покупается в 2-3 раза дешевле чем ее продает производство, заработать денег нельзя (не реально)), система ж.д. сигнализации такая же как экономика (убогая и глючная, 8 часов бился на пиратке и еще 2,5 часа на лицензии, так и не победил, отказывается работать не то чтобы в трех режимах , а да же в двух ( чтобы при двух рядом стоящих светофорах зеленый сигнал загорался последовательно при прохождении поезда ). Ну и "по мелочи". Но перечисленные недостатки "убивают" всякое желание играть в игру. Жду обновлений и исправлений ( минимум нормальной экономики). 16 февраля 2026 года. Добавлю только ,то что со светофорами с трудом но разобрался ( но однозначно то как устроена система сигнализации в игре это полнейший бред и идиотизм в разы усложняющий процесс постройки ж.д. в игре ), экономика это вообще "полный шлак" , для примера - склад покупает деревянный брус на 200$-300$ дешевле чем его продает лесопилка (разница казана за стоимость одной упаковки весом 6,5 тонн , на вагоне минимум 2 упаковки ). Что приводит к потере игроком примерно по 600 - 1200 $ с каждого вагона. При такой экономике игрок разорится за 4-5 поездок на склад.

Hello, the game looks very good in terms of graphics and handling. What I would like is if the industries were already fixed on the map and you only had to connect them with the railway line. That would add more depth to the game. Small towns would also be interesting, where you only have to build the train station and connect them with rails to enable passenger transport. As it is now, I wonder where the passengers are supposed to come from and where they are supposed to go.

The coupling and break system is broken. Until the fix it I can not give it a good recommendation.

I've never enjoyed the limitless potential of a game as in early stages such as this one in a good while, and I hope to play it until they reach their furthest milestones. This game has a team who is smaller than some of the Train games that do exist, despite the case of the later stages and the high amounts of people who followed those games, this one actively has potential to do more than what the developers have originally intended and the player base who chooses to follow along should give them a further nudge in support by joining the journey! I also do hope this sparks interest in more procedurally generated games that let you build and populate a world you and/or your friends choose to embark upon.

This has huge potential. The agency this game gives you is incredible. It's like railroader only you get to build the tracks, industry. Good sound, runs great. The developer has a great concept here not done before I don't think. Right now there isn't much industry since it is early access, but I can only see that balooning into multistage resources and crafting in future updates. The track building works good, the building placement is easy, you need to make sure your grades are not to steep or trains wont make it. The industry buildings cost money to build, and you deliver freight back and forth from them, do yourself a favor and start on a fresh empty map to get a good feel of what the game will eventually be like when more content is added. I can see rail costing money to build, currently it's free to place down where ever you like. Will be a SOLID game. If you like railroader and trains, you have a lot of freedom to choose what you want to work on and how to build out your map, it's not simply sitting in a cabin and driving trains, you create an entire railroad network, make money on it. You can currently setup fuel stations to fill up, they are also free but eventually see a lot of this stuff costing money, time and resources to build.

Good progress during Early Access and I have noticed that the performance has majorly improved recently. Inventory assets and world building features are still quite limited though. Overall, a nice and simple, decently priced and relaxing train game. Will follow its development and report back in future. Follow me to get more real reviews like this!