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SimRail - The Railway Simulator

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Simulation
Publisher: PlayWay
Developer: SimRail
Release Date: 2023

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'SimRail - The Railway Simulator' Pulls Into Steam Early Access - Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Jan. 13, 2023 @ 4:58 p.m. PST

SimRail - The Railway Simulator is an advanced railway simulator where you master high-speed long-distance EMU, heavy freight hauls and suburban trains.

SimRail - The Railway Simulator is a new era of railway simulators. Enter signal box and become train dispatcher. Take a care of your station, prepare the path for the train keeping in mind the rules and schedule. Use devices from different eras, but remember that something can break! 

 Travel 500 km of geodetic-data based real routes. Become train dispatcher and control the traffic according to the schedule or cooperate with other players on multiplayer mode.

Take control of a trains from different eras and drive safety to the final station on time. Most popular steam, diesel and electric vehicles uses realistic physics based on technology known before only in professional simulators for training drivers.

Realistic driving physics, the environment generated on the basis of geodetic data and an extensive multi-player mode are just some of the elements that game includes.


SimRail - The Railway Simulator is available through Steam Early Access and will remain so for 3 to 6 months.”

“Game currently includes complete scenery that contains nearly 500 km of routes created with the use of real geodetic data: Katowice - Sędziszów and Katowice - Warszawa. Five vehicles are available for players to drive: EU07, ET25 Dragon, E186 Traxx, ED250 Pendolino EMU, EN76/EN96 Elf EMU and four types of passenger and cargo carriages. Singleplayer and multiplayer modes are already available, with possibility of play as train driver or traffic dispatcher. Available features include dynamic weather, realistic physics model and sounds.”

“Planned features to be added in the full version:

  • Steam locomotives.
  • Controller support.
  • Shunting operations.
  • Winter weather effects.
  • Adding more playable signal boxes.
We are still working on game optimization and thus performance problems might occur during early access.”

In SimRail - The Railway Simulator, the player can play both the role of the train driver and the role of the dispatcher (or, as specialists will say, a traffic controller). The single-player driver mode offers us specific scenarios to play, in which we have to safely drive the selected train on one of several lines, respecting the signaling and speed limits.

The player can drive freight, suburban, express trains, and even Pendolino! The creators ensure that the distances between the stations are exactly the same as in reality, and thanks to the use of geodetic data, even the slope of the line is mapped, which can be easily checked: if we stop on the slope and release the brakes, the train will start to roll down!

The multiplayer mode, in addition to all the possibilities of the singleplayer mode, allows us to take the wheelhouse of the dispatcher. In short: We can direct the train to any track in the station, remembering about passengers and not to divert two trains to the same track! When passing trains between stations, we have to cooperate with other players using a prepared communication system (text and voice). The smoothness of the game is ensured by AI, which immediately take over our roles in the event of inactivity or leaving the game.


Key Features:

  • Join the travel... and visit about 500 km of real routes created with all details. Choose present europan high speed, long distance and suburban tracks or travel back in time to '80 and drive steam train at sand railway of Upper Silesia, Poland - the socialist land of coal and steel.
  • Take control of a trains... from different eras and drive safety to the final station on time. Most popular steam, diesel and electric vehicles uses realistic physics based on technology known before only in professional simulators for training drivers.
  • Enter signal box...and become train dispatcher. Take a care of your station, prepare the path for the train keeping in mind the rules and schedule. Use devices from different eras, but remember that something can break!
  • Enjoy multiplayer...and cooperate with players from around the world as a train driver oraz dispatcher with real-time weather and communication. Take over the selected train or signal box and start an adventure unprecedented in other rail simulators. It is our response to the expectations of players.
  • The quality of the graphics...thanks to use of Unity game engine allows you to lose yourself in the virtual world. The grass and trees moving depends on the wind, dynamic weather system with puddles and snow drifts, living world with animated passengers connected with scenarios randomization.

SimRail - The Railway Simulator is coming to PC (Steam) in 2023.


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