Railway Empire is a strategy, released 25 January 2018 on Linux. It currently starts at $5.99 at Humble Store.
What Railway Empire is
Railway Empire was released in 2018. It is available on Linux only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Railway Empire is a railroad construction and management simulation game developed by Gaming Minds Studio and published by Kalypso Media. It was announced in early 2017 and released on 26 January 2018 for Linux and Microsoft Windows, 30 January 2018 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and 14 February 2020 for Nintendo Switch. In Japan, the physical copy of the game was distributed by Ubisoft in May 2018. A sequel, Railway Empire 2, was released in 2023.
How it plays
There are 128 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Railway Empire holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce GTX460 or AMD Radeon HD5870 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $5.99 at Humble Store, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Railway Empire launched on 25 January 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Monster Hunter: World, Celeste and Shadow of the Colossus. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Monster Hunter: World, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Railway Empire yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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