Trains for PC — top best games in the Trains genre

Action, Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting, Trains

Early Access: PC → 9 May 2023; Game released: PC → 7 November 2025

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 71/100

A cooperative survival action game in which the player becomes a member of the crew of an interdimensional train. The hero sets off to explore a mysterious world...

Transport Fever 2

Strategy, Flight Simulator, In real time, Business / Management, Trains, Construction, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: PC → 11 December 2019

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The continuation of Transport Fever, in which the player develops a transport system starting from the mid-19th century to the present day. You will have to...

Russian Train Trip 2

Simulation, Adventure, Trains, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Early Access: PC → 7 March 2023; Game released: PC → 15 April 2023

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 38/100

A new travel simulator across Russia, in which the player travels to Vladivostok, covering vast distances on a passenger train in a compartment car. On this...

Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator

Adventure, Simulation, First-person view, Trains, Survival

Early Access: PC → 30 May 2024; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 91/100

Simulator of a train driver moving along the Novosibirsk-Krasnoyarsk route on the Trans-Siberian Railway, made on a 1:1 scale. On the way, the player will encounter...

Bounty Train

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Trains

Game released: PC → 16 May 2017

Players: 9/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Bounty Train is a management simulator with strategy elements, where you have to conquer the Wild West on rails. You will be able to design and build your own...

Fatal Train

Online, First-person view, Puzzle, Trains, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy, Exploration, Detective

Game released: PC → 15 October 2026

Steam: 9/100

Multiplayer roguelite detective game where you need to solve a murder on a moving train. The main feature is procedural generation. Each time the train is arranged...

Railroad Tycoon 3

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Trains

Game released: PC → 4 May 2007

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This railway business strategy simulator challenges players to recreate events from railroad history across 25 scenarios. They lay track, including tunnels and...

Frostrail

Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Trains, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A survival shooter in which the player travels by train through an icy wasteland. The events of the game take place in a certain empire, which declines after the...

Railway Empire 2

Business / Management, Strategy, Isometric, In real time, Trains, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Simulation

Game released: PC → 25 May 2023

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 37/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Continuation of the management simulator, where in the role of a skilled entrepreneur you need to establish the US railway system of the mid-19th century. The game...

Train Station Renovation

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Business / Management, First-person view, Trains, Indie, Casual game

Early Access: PC → 30 April 2020; Game released: PC → 1 October 2020

Players: 8/10

Steam: 84/100

Train Station Renovation is a first-person management simulator where you take on the role of the self-proclaimed guardian of historic train stations. You will go...

Unrailed!

Arcade, Online, Action, MMO, Business / Management, Trains, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Early Access: PC → 9 September 2019; Game released: PC → 23 September 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Unrailed! is a crazy multiplayer action game in which you have to build a railway in an endless procedurally generated world. Together with your friends, you will...

Railroad Corporation

Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Trains

Game released: PC → 18 November 2019

Players: 6/10

Steam: 75/100

Railroad Corporation is a sophisticated management strategy with an isometric camera, where you will lead your own railway empire in North America of the 19th...

Railroad Tycoon 2

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Trains

Game released: PC → 1998

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Railroad Tycoon 2 — Much of the game consists of laying tracks, building stations, and purchasing trains used to transport passengers and cargo from one...

Denshattack!

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Stunts, Casual game, Trains, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 15 July 2026

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 87/100

A colorful arcade game about high-speed trains, stunts, and underground racing in a vibrant Japanese dystopia. The story tells the journey of Emi and a group of...

Microsoft Train Simulator

Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Sandbox, Trains

Game released: PC → 22 August 2001

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 84/100

This train simulator lets players operate trains on real-world routes in Japan, the United States and Europe. The three locomotive types are the electric Acela...

Train Sim World 7

Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Trains, Sandbox, Exploration

Game released: PC → 15 September 2026

Steam: 80/100

A railway simulator with new routes, trains, and opportunities for leisurely trips or a full-fledged career as a virtual driver. In sunny Florida, the railroads of...

City Transport Simulator

Simulation, Business / Management, First-person view, Third-person view, Sandbox, Trains

Game released: PC → 28 January 2025

Steam: 72/100

The player develops a transport company and transports passengers around the city. It is necessary to plan routes, create schedules, and optimize operations. The...

Russian Train Trip

Simulation, Indie, First-person view, Trains, Business / Management, Adventure

Game released: PC → 28 December 2021

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 43/100

Russian Train Trip is an adventure simulator of riding a passenger train in Russia with a first-person view. In the game you have to buy tickets, food, take the...

Metro Simulator 2

Simulation, Trains, First-person view, Historical

Early Access: PC → 15 December 2022; Game released: PC → 14 June 2023

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 65/100

A metro simulator that recreates the Moscow metro and realistic train controls. In Free Ride mode, you can choose who to play as: a train driver or a passenger. You...

Transport Giant

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Trains

Game released: PC → 23 September 2004

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 61/100

An economic strategy game about building a transport company from 1850 onward, as cities grow and industrial production expands. The player lays out routes and...

Train Fever

Simulation, Trains, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 4 September 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This business simulation begins in 1850, with the player setting up a transport company. Railways and stations can be built, vehicles purchased, and routes managed...

RAILGRADE

Business / Management, Top-down view, In real time, Trains, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Strategy, Simulation

Game released: PC → 13 October 2023

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A futuristic management simulator in which players manage the railroad, freight, and power industries of an extraterrestrial colony. As the administrator of their...

Sid Meier's Railroads!

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Trains

Game released: PC → 27 October 2006

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This real-time strategy and business simulation centers on building a railroad empire and competing with rival entrepreneurs. Its world is rendered in 3D, with the...

SimRail - The Railway Simulator

Action, Simulation, First-person view, Trains, Exploration

Early Access: PC → 14 January 2023; Game released: PC → 13 December 2024

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 80/100

A realistic railway simulator with driving physics, detailed surroundings, and a large-scale multiplayer mode. The game offers around 500 km of real railway routes...

Derail Valley

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Trains, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Early Access: PC → 25 January 2019

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 96/100

Derail Valley is a realistic train driver simulator with first-person view and support for virtual reality helmets. You will be able to control the rolling stock...

Trans-Siberian Legends

Adventure, First-person view, Trains, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 18 March 2024

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 55/100

The main character, as a train passenger, travels along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Basically you will have to look at the landscapes outside the window and get off...

Train Driver 2

Trains, Simulation, Third-person view, Business / Management, Online

Game released: PC → 27 May 2025

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 56/100

A game with a cooperative mode, in which you can take on one of two roles: a driver, who controls the train, or a dispatcher, who manages traffic at stations and...

Railborn

Adventure, Simulation, Sandbox, Trains, Indie, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 9.8/10

An open-world survival simulator where players customize their own train and travel through different locations. Gamers start with nothing and gradually build a...

Railroads Online

Trains, Simulation, Strategy, Construction, Open world, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Business / Management

Early Access: PC → 1 October 2021; Game released: PC → 5 December 2024

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 75/100

The game takes place in a spacious open world, similar to the American Midwest during the golden age of steam locomotives. The gamer builds railroads and then rides...

EverRail

Action, Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Procedural generation, Trains

Early Access: PC → 20 July 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 69/100

A cooperative survival game set in an open world, taking place on the frozen exomoon Inara. The only safe place here is the constantly moving train, which has...

Train Simulator 2019

Simulation, Business / Management, First-person view, Third-person view, Trains

Game released: PC → 11 October 2018

Players: 5/10

Train Simulator 2019 is a new part of the annual train management simulator, which gives you the opportunity to experience the beauty of railway adventures on real...

Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator: Prologue

Free game, Simulation, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Adventure, Trains, Survival

Game released: PC → 23 January 2024

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 89/100

Free prologue for Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator. The main character is an ordinary Russian guy who drives a diesel locomotive on the Novosibirsk-Krasnoyarsk...

Train Sim World 6

Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Trains, Strategy

Game released: PC → 30 September 2025

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 76/100

A new stage in the Train Sim World series of railway simulators, focused on the detailed representation of train operations and infrastructure. The game offers...

Trainwatch

Adventure, Simulation, Business / Management, Trains, Indie, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration

Game in development: PC → 10 March 2027

A narrative adventure with elements of time management, life simulation, and horror from the creator of The Cat Lady, Downfall , and Lorelai. The main character...

Mashinky

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Trains, Indie

Early Access: PC → 6 October 2018

Players: 8/10

Steam: 83/100

Mashinky is a management simulator dedicated to trains. By scaling stunning landscapes, using traditional isometric building mode, and mastering unique board...

Cosmic Express

Puzzle, Trains, Space

Game released: PC → 16 March 2017

Steam: 90/100

This puzzle game centers on a railway colony in space, where tracks must be laid across small stations. Each alien has a home to reach, while the passenger car can...

Voxel Tycoon

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Trains, Indie, Sandbox, Construction, Crafting

Early Access: PC → 15 April 2021; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 78/100

Voxel Tycoon is a management simulator with an isometric camera view, set in an endless world of voxels. As you progress, you will have to mine resources...

Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019

Simulation, Trains, Open world

Game released: PC → 7 January 2019

Steam: 81/100

This railway simulator lets players drive trains, operate a railroad, and build custom routes. Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019 features interactive sessions and more...

Train Life: A Railway Simulator

Simulation, Trains, First-person view, Adventure, Business / Management, Open world

Game released: PC → 25 August 2022

Players: 4.8/10

Steam: 63/100

A realistic train driver simulator. The game gives you the opportunity to become a driver and director of a transport company at the same time. You can control your...

Cities in Motion

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Third-person view, Trains

Game released: PC → 22 February 2011

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Cities in Motion is an economic simulation game that challenges you to model, build, and maintain an efficient mass transit network between multiple, growing...

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Best Games in the Trains genre for PC