Derail Valley

Derail Valley is listed at $39.99 on Steam.

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Genre: Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Early Access · Developer: Altfuture · Release: Jan 25, 2019.

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Derail Valley is a train driving simulator that asks you to slow down and actually pay attention to the machine you’re operating. Instead of clicking a button and watching a locomotive glide to its destination, you’re hauling real cargo across an open, sprawling map, managing fuel, brakes, and switches along the way. It’s the kind of game that rewards patience and punishes carelessness, and that tension is basically the whole appeal.

How it plays

You start as a hired hand for the local railway, picking up delivery jobs that move procedurally generated cargo between industries scattered across a large, open landscape. Every trip means planning a route, switching tracks by hand, coupling cars, and easing a several-hundred-ton machine up to speed without wasting fuel or wrecking the freight. Money earned from deliveries goes toward licenses and better locomotives, so your career gradually opens up as you prove you can be trusted with heavier, trickier loads. If the economic grind isn’t your thing, there’s a sandbox mode that strips away the money pressure entirely and just lets you drive. Longtime players also get pulled into side projects like restoring derelict locomotives and outfitting them with gadgets, which says a lot about how attached people get to their trains here. The game supports both flat-screen and VR play, and the VR side in particular leans hard into physically reaching for levers and gauges rather than menuing through them.

Who it’s for

This is a niche pick, and it knows it. If you’ve ever wanted to understand why train engineers talk about their job like a craft, or you loved the fiddly systems-first appeal of games like Farming Simulator or Euro Truck Simulator, Derail Valley scratches that same itch with more mechanical depth. VR owners looking for something that actually uses their hands for real, satisfying tasks will find a lot to love here too. On the other hand, if you want fast action, tight scoring loops, or a game that holds your hand through objectives, this isn’t it. There’s no urgency, no combat, no scripted drama, just you, a throttle, and a very long track ahead.

Is it worth it?

For the audience that clicks with this kind of methodical, systems-heavy simulation, Derail Valley delivers a lot of genuine depth: multiple locomotive types with their own quirks, a real economy to work through, and enough world to keep exploring for a long time. It’s still in Early Access, so go in expecting some rough edges and ongoing changes rather than a fully polished, finished product. That said, simulation fans tend to sink enormous hours into games like this once they click, which makes it a strong candidate to grab whenever it’s discounted rather than rushing in at full price if you’re only curious.

Quick facts

Genre: Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Early Access. Developer and publisher: Altfuture. Platform: PC (Steam), with VR support. Released: January 25, 2019.