Adventure · January 25, 2019

Derail Valley (2019)

extension1 DLCgroup1M–10M ownerstrending_up328 peak concurrentrecommend8.1k recommendations
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.

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Early Access · 188
  • Trains · 170
  • Simulation · 169
  • Realistic · 158
  • VR · 154
  • Transportation · 144
  • Driving · 140
  • Open World · 134
  • First-Person · 130
  • Physics · 127
  • Immersive Sim · 122
  • Economy · 107
  • Singleplayer · 105
  • Resource Management · 104
  • Indie · 100

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume7.4k Steam reviewsTop 31% in Adventure
Positive rating96% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 21%
Concurrent peak328 playersTop 10% in Adventure by live player count
Engagement hours49 h averageTop 6% for session depth among Adventure

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Dutch
  • Finnish
  • Japanese
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Cloud

Accessibility

  • Adjustable Difficulty
  • Playable without Timed Input

Input & Comfort

  • Tracked Controller Support
  • VR Supported
  • Camera Comfort
  • Stereo Sound
  • Partial Controller Support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Keyboard Only Option
  • Save Anytime
  • Family Sharing

Reception Metrics

Steam community

96%Overwhelmingly Positive · 7.4k reviews

7.1k positive · 295 negative

Curator recommendations

8.1k

Peak concurrent players

328

Release & Availability

Release dateJan 25, 2019
DeveloperAltfuture
Base price$39.99
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Support · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

49h

substantial (40–100 hours)

Median

32h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

5h

Current engagement

Editions & Packages

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