Sid Meier's Railroads!
Short description
Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!
- Developer
- Feral Interactive (Mac), Firaxis Games
- Publisher
- 2K, Feral Interactive (Mac)
- Release
- Fri, May 04, 2007
- Price
- $9.99
- Reviews
- 2,614
- Positive
- 71%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 500K – 1M
- Concurrent players
- 73
- Genres
- Strategy
- Features
- Multi-player
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by the $9.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
3 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 326 further data points reach back to Nov 1, 2010 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $2.49 on Jun 19, 2014.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Sid Meier's Railroads!. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Railroad Tycoon 3 | PopTop 3 titles | 6 | same tags | $9.99 | 1,120 | 78% | Fri, May 04, 2007 | $451k $200k – $4.5m |
|
Railway Empire | Gaming Minds Studios 7 titles | 5 | − Singleplayer + Building | $29.99 | 7,206 | 83% | Fri, Jan 26, 2018 | $15m $15m – $17.3m |
|
Train Fever | Urban Games 4 titles | 5 | − Singleplayer + Indie | $19.99 | 2,766 | 61% | Thu, Sep 04, 2014 | $4m $4m – $4.4m |
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Railroad Tycoon II Platinum | PopTop 3 titles | 5 | − Singleplayer + Classic | $4.99 | 1,335 | 90% | Fri, May 04, 2007 | $267k $119k – $2.2m |
|
Transport Giant | Fancy Bytes, Reactor 6 titles | 5 | − Singleplayer + Transportation | $1.99 80% best price ever |
439 | 61% | Fri, Sep 05, 2014 | $172k $77k – $873k |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.