Sid Meier's Railroads!
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Sid Meier's Railroads! is a simulator developed by Firaxis Games, released 17 October 2006 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sid Meier's Railroads! is
Sid Meier's Railroads! is a simulator game developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2006. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Gamebryo.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sid Meier's Railroads! is a business simulation game developed by Firaxis Games on the Gamebryo game engine that was released in October 2006 and is the sequel to Railroad Tycoon 3. Although Sid Meier created the original Railroad Tycoon, subsequent versions were developed by PopTop Software. Railroads! was the first game in the series since the original to have direct input from Sid Meier himself. After a visit to Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, Meier was inspired to reinvent his original creation. A version for the Mac OS X was published by Feral Interactive on November 1, 2012, under the latter's Feral Legends label. A mobile version was released in April 2023.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Sid Meier series
Sid Meier's Railroads! is the 18th of 41 entries we hold in the Sid Meier series. The next entry was Sid Meier's Pirates! in 2007. Its critic score of 75 is 7 points below the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Sid Meier's Civilization IV at 95.
How it was received
Sid Meier's Railroads! holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Sid Meier's Railroads! launched on 17 October 2006, within three weeks of Bully, Gears of War, Guitar Hero II and Pokémon Diamond Version. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Bully, Gears of War, Guitar Hero II, Pokémon Diamond Version.
Cheats and codes
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