Railgrade
Railgrade is a construction strategy game about building railway networks to connect future, off-world cities with valuable industry. Deliver essential resources via a bustling train system, optimize the…
Railgrade is an indie developed by Minakata Dynamics, released 29 September 2022 on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $8.99 at GOG.
What Railgrade is
Railgrade is an indie game developed by Minakata Dynamics and released in 2022. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
RAILGRADE is a construction strategy game about building railway networks to connect future, off-world cities with valuable industry. As the last remaining employee on a corporate-owned earth colony, it’s up to you to salvage the remains of the planet’s economy following a disastrous management mishap. With dozens of trains at your disposal, it’s up to you to manage the production of goods and ensure the delivery of essential resources in order to create a thriving industrial colony once more. In a near-future, corporations have transformed distant planets into industrial colonies, harvesting their resources for commercial gain. Your employer, Nakatani Chemicals, has lost control of one…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Railgrade holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $8.99 at GOG, 70% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Railgrade launched on 29 September 2022, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Return to Monkey Island and The Case of the Golden Idol. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Return to Monkey Island, The Case of the Golden Idol.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Railgrade yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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