Sid Meier's Railroads!

Game keeps crashing out

Sid Meier’s Railroads! might be from another era, but in 2025, it still delivers a surprisingly fun ride. On easy difficulty, it’s a relaxing, almost therapeutic game: lay some tracks, watch the trains chug along, enjoy the scenery. Bump up the difficulty, though, and suddenly you're juggling routes, resources, and rivals like a stressed-out railway tycoon. Sure, it's showing its age, and modern transport sims have built on its foundations, but there’s still charm here. It’s a true classic that paved the way, and if the price is right, it’s worth a ticket. Final score: 6/10. A bit rusty, but still rolls.

tis still fun

I love it all best ever game??????

it crashes every 5-10 mins so if you wanna save every 2-3 mins download this game

Amazing game.
For those whose game crashes often, there is a very easy fix on the Steam Community Hub. Or just google it.

crashes constantly

This game brings back memories of the good ole days

I like playing the game very much fun and easy building the railroads but im playing on windows 10 and the game keeps crashing because its not fully compatible with windows 10 and it is very annoying every board ive played the game crashes at some point they have had more than enough time to fix this issue and have not so this is why i dont recomend playing this game on windows ten.

Childhood classic on the family computer in 2011. For some reason it crashes a lot now.

Not worth a penny.

Disappointing crashes

Good game

I love railroads. I love Civ.
But this game just keep crushing.

love this game

Loved this game for years, shame the multiplayer doesn't work anymore but still worth a buy for simple fun. :)

It's an older game, but it has the basics. The resources have been boiled down below RRT levels, but it works. The maps are small, but then again, you'll learn they're their the right size for quick gaming.

It's great fun until it crashes

the game is always force closed in windows 11

Awesome little game and gameplay that can be played on old computers without graphic cards. I also like other games that don't require graphic cards too such as vice city, midtown madness, rise of nation, etc.

Really great!!! Recommended for fans of the Civ series. Has a similar feel - very addictive and very fun.
However, I think the average person would enjoy this. Playing with AI and watching everone's railroad grow and create a web is incredible!

As for other reviewers talking about the crashing - There's a guy under the guides for this game that has a simple patch for this game - all you have to do is change two digits of the code. It's super easy, works great, and you don't have to use some random person's code online.

Get this game!!

What's not to like about robber barons?

Loads up, I get excited and then it crashes and won't play. Wish I had read the reviews more carefully. Other reviewers give instructions about going to some third party website and downloading a patch. But I'll pass on installing free code from an unknown source on my computer. Honestly, Steam shouldn't sell things that don't work out of the box.

I used to play this game soo much back in the day when it was fairly new, it still has crashing issues just like day 1 but even more with windows 11, but nothing that can be too annoying, still as fun as back then, yet another game that aged like fine wine and stood the test of time.

Great game

Buggy again today. Switching trains to different tracks, crashing, no auto save.

I know it's an old game however, it just continues to randomly crash midway.

Easy to play RR game. You'll have fun whiling away the hours running your own RR Company.

i like trains

fun

It has trains

A timeless classic!

simple fun

It's an old game, but one I can't get enough of. I play it both on Intel Windows boxes and on M1 Macs without issue.

Buy RRT3 instead.

drf

great game wish there were more maps

Best Railroad game, ever.

Good game but is unstable and crashes after building a mid-sixed rail network

Great game.

Great game, shame they can't fix the crashing without user generated workarounds.

The pinnacle of railroads, the bar of which none have come close to achieving.

While the game is great, it is completely unstable. No meaningful effort has been made to get this game stable. It should have never been listed on Steam if no one was willing to patch this game. It is not just on modern hardware, This game has had the same crashing issues for 20 years when I bought the CD version and ran it on a Pentium 4 system. The game still crashes in the same manner it did back then.

The game is too unstable to be enjoyable. You just never know which track or station you lay down will end with a crash.

The game keeps crashing after a couple of minutes

I like this game. The biggest issue is that it crashes easily. It's not as complex as Railroad Tycoon 3 but it doesn't have to be. There are many ways to play a scenario with different time ranges, difficulty levels, and number of AI players (I counted: There's 69,600 ways to play a scenario). The trains are cute looking. I've been playing since 2012 ever since I found out about it from a YouTuber named Quill18, so I know a lot about the mechanics of the game and it's a good time.

Genuine nostalgia. Its like im playing with model trains.

Sothing and enjoyable

Nostalgic Gameplay.. but crashes too many

Old but still catchy.

It's extremely simplified, to the point of being slightly infantilizing to a player used to more complex simulation games.
It's alrigh if you want something easy and simple, if you want a stimulating challenge, go play something else.