Derail Valley

Derail Valley is a train-driving game set across a 256 km² open world of railroads, towns and industries. You drive trains, haul cargo between locations and build a career by completing deliveries, earning money and gaining licenses. You can walk or drive trains across the uninterrupted world, with no fixed route for how you move or leave trains.

The world and its railroads

The landscape includes vegetation, water, diverse industries and towns, with seamless day and night cycles and dynamic clouds, fog, rain and sound. You can change switches, drive, haul cargo and leave trains where you choose.

Deliveries are generated procedurally across more than 80 cargo types. Locations vary in what they produce, so almost no two deliveries are the same. You can haul goods between industries or handle the shunting and logistics that help stations generate more deliveries. Choose orders and move cargo according to your plans, licenses and hauling capacity.

Career and sandbox

In career mode, you earn money from deliveries and advance as a train engineer. Efficient driving and vehicle care help reduce fuel and repair costs. You can buy items and licenses that give you access to more vehicles and orders.

Sandbox mode lets you play without focusing on the economy, experimenting freely without consequences.

Trains and procedures

The game features six realistic steam and diesel locomotive classes with different transmission types, as well as extra vehicles. Their behavior, sounds, physics and controls are designed to make each one distinct. You also take part in railroad procedures such as coupling, servicing, securing brakes and shunting.

You can search for and restore unique derelict locomotive variants, then customize them with gadgets that can improve driving performance. These include digital speedometers, clinometers, colored ambient lights and distance trackers. Gadgets are available in shops and can be installed wherever you choose using various tools.

Mistakes and controls

Incidents have consequences in the world rather than appearing only as popup messages. These can include derailments, collisions, blown traction motors, boiler explosions, brake failures, HAZMAT disasters and wheelslip on a rainy slope.

Derail Valley can be played on PC or in VR, where you operate the controls with your hands. You can switch between PC and VR sessions while keeping the same progress. Tutorials help new players get started, and a user manual covers the details.