NIMBY Rails

NIMBY Rails

Weird and Wry · January 26, 2021 · Transportation, Simulation, Management, Economy, Building

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NIMBY Rails price by region

NIMBY Rails costs $10.99 in Georgia (USD), £14.49 in the United Kingdom, $19.14 in the United States, €19.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$23.99 in Canada, A$28.50 in Australia, NZ$30.99 in New Zealand, R$67.99 in Brazil and zł84.99 in Poland right now.

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RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $10.99 $10.99 $19.14 2
United Kingdom £14.49 −18% £17.75 £14.49 2
United Statesyour region $19.14 −4% $19.99 $19.14 2
Europe (EUR) €19.99 €19.99 — 1
Canada CA$23.99 CA$23.99 — 1
Australia A$28.50 A$28.50 — 1
New Zealand NZ$30.99 NZ$30.99 — 1
Brazil R$67.99 R$67.99 — 1
Poland zł84.99 zł84.99 — 1

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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.

NIMBY Rails — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player, Online co-op
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

NIMBY Rails is a deep city-building game focused on designing and managing railway networks that draws players in with accessible mechanics and compelling long-term gameplay, supported by active modding communities. Players consistently praise the creative freedom and addictive nature of the experience, though they note a learning curve and warn that the game's time-sink potential can be substantial. Most reviewers recommend it for those with patience for transit planning, with the understanding that it may consume far more hours than initially expected.

Recommended Sep 28, 2026
Why wait 50 years for public transit when I can build it myself.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 19, 2026
Great game, only misses some soundstrack, but ehh spotify also does the job :) It's a fun game to build your own railnetwork, it could be Irl inspired or just building a metro system under your hometown that is smaller than a farm field, it's also a cherry on top with the variety mods that are available. The only thing is that you need some time learning the mechanics and functions, but within a day I already knew how to use those functions and mechanics pretty good. Definitly recommended to play!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 2, 2026
I wanted couple hours of fun, I wasted too much time
Recommended Sep 27, 2026
"The struggle itself toward the most autistic network possible is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine the NIMBY Rails player happy" - Albert Camus or smth I start a new NIMBY Rails save. This is, and by a long shot, the game I have the most hours in (well over 1000 hours ahead of 2nd place). I usually decide to recreate and improve my hometown's metro system. So, I name my company the Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo or something of the sorts. I spend hours, days, weeks, a month in that save, transforming São Paulo into the transit capital of the world, fifty, one hundred lines sprawling in all directions, utilizing all modes of rail-based transit, to serve every single commuter of this megacity 20 million strong... I get bored. I run out of ideas. My PC sounds like an airplane turbine. I click "save game," give my save a dumb name, click "quit to desktop" and go to bed. The next day, I don't return to that save. I press new game, maybe instead of expanding the existing metro of my hometown, I decide to reinvent it, as in, "if I was in charge of designing it back in the 70s, what would I have done?" Or maybe I do a long-distance focused save and recreate the lost…
Recommended Sep 25, 2026
its a good game it works fine on my laptop!
Recommended Sep 23, 2026
its good game i like

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