Trainz: A New Era similar games & best alternatives

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Trainz: A New Era

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2015

Should you play it?

Our "Platinum Edition" bundle provides fantastic value for new or existing customers. Expand your Trainz collection with a huge range of additional routes, sessions, locos and rolling stock, all at 75% off the regular pricing.

What works

  • Extensive creative freedom and route building
  • Large amount of free and paid downloadable content
  • Realistic train operation and physics
  • Active and helpful community
  • Relaxing and immersive gameplay

Things to keep in mind

  • Performance issues and optimization problems on some hardware
  • Steep learning curve and complex tools
  • Multiplayer is limited and buggy
  • High dlc costs and fragmented content
  • Lack of narrative or structured gameplay

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019

  • Trainz™ Simulator 12

  • Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022

  • Hydroneer

  • Out of Ore

  • Rolling Line

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Trainz: A New Era but with less of a community feel

  • Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation

  • Islands & Trains

  • Cities in Motion

  • RAILGRADE

  • Transport Fever

  • A Bumpy Ride

Less social

Games that feels like Trainz: A New Era but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Factory Town

  • Tracks - The Train Set Game

  • Train Simulator Classic

  • Diesel Railcar Simulator

  • Train Sim World® 3

  • SubwaySim 2

More story-driven

Games that feels like Trainz: A New Era but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Thomas & Friends™: Wonders of Sodor

  • Lumberjack's Dynasty

  • Railway Empire 2

  • MaSzyna

  • FOUNDRY

  • Farming Simulator 25

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Trainz: A New Era but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Captain of Industry

  • Railroad Tycoon 3

  • ZUSI 3 - Aerosoft Edition

  • Derail Valley

  • Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

  • SnowRunner

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Trainz: A New Era: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Cooperation, Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026