NIMBY Rails
Weird and Wry · 2021 · Transportation, Simulation, Management, Economy, Building
PC
Very Positive90% · 2,172
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About NIMBY Rails
✦ AI summary
Build railways across real-world maps with 1cm precision, from Lisbon to Shanghai if you want, managing stations, signals, and train lines to serve simulated passengers and turn a profit. Whether you want streamlined automation or granular control over every track and signal, NIMBY Rails lets you test your rail obsessions at any complexity level you choose.
NIMBY Rails is a management sandbox for railways you build in the real world. Design train tracks, set up lines, and get that stock rolling to make money and serve the needs of the population. Do you have strong opinions on rail projects and want to test your own ideas? This game was made for you.
- The world is your canvas. Design and play on a fully detailed real world map with 1cm resolution. A rail link from Lisbon to Shanghai? Anchorage to Buenos Aires? Cape Town to Rabat? Why not!
- Your tracks will need to respect real, existing roads and streets. Too many crossings may make your designs not viable.
- Streamlined circulation mechanics so you don't get bogged down by the details. Build and run a large network easily.
- Only as complex as you want it. Easily build stations with automatic double track and automatic entrance/exit signaling, and link them in a couple clicks with automatic double tracks.
- But do you have your own ideas about signals? Want to dive into detailed station design? Have a flying junction concept you are dying to test? Just disable the automatic aids in the track editor and individually control every every track, signal and building if you desire to do so.
- Trams, subways, commuter, regional and high speed trains. Tunnels, viaducts and ground tracks with a variety trade offs on the environment, train speed, and your company wallet.
- Simulated train and station demand, down to simulating individual passengers. Passengers can, and will, engage in train trips that make them board multiple trains, waiting in transfer stations.
- Demand flow based on time of day and time of week, with time zone support. Find it boring when night time comes and the stations are deserted? No problem, start a new line ten time zones away.
- Passengers will continuously rate their experience based on the trip time and the fares you impose on them, with effects on the demand of the stations they visit.
- Single player and offline first.
- Optional cooperative multiplayer: build together in real time with friends and others you invite to your hosted server session.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I *am* a train nerd who wanted to play this game and recreate a real track network to simulate future changes to it. Got pushed back by extremely unintuitive controls for building tracks and stations, which are also very limited in the actual building mode and they do allow big flexibility, but only in editing mode (you can only build two tracks at a time, no more, no less, what?????) I really want to actually play this game one day, but not in this state. It feels like there is some playing style where the current editing mode works better, but I installed it with a specific purpose and I felt like I constantly had to gimmick or do various workarounds to do what I want. And if what the game expects of you feels like a workaround, that's bad design.1 found this helpful
It may not look as pretty as some other games like Subway Builder, but it is still highly addictive as a transport nerd. You can build metro, commuters, high speed rail -- anything you want, anywhere in the world. It is a bit difficult to get into the game at first as the mechanics aren't very clear and aren't clearly explained anywhere, but watcing some youtube tutorials should do the trick. I'd highly recommend the game if you like designing your own transport networks and love drawing transit lines on maps.
I think I might have autism
It seems like a good game on the surface, but for any prospective transport enthusiasts be aware that you have to lay ALL track geometry yourself. There is no option to import any existing tracks and everything must be placed by hand.
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