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American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley is a single player simulation game. It was developed by Stefan Kelnberger and was released on April 20, 2018. It received neutral reviews from players.

Buy - Transport - Profit: Arrange your own 1800s steam train, load it with timber logs and deliver it to the local sawmill while enjoying the realistic driving- and physics experience in a majestic mountain scenery.

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45%Audience ScoreBased on 146 reviews
graphics5 positive mentions
stability9 negative mentions

  • The game offers an immersive and tactile steam locomotive simulation with detailed models, accurate physics, and realistic sound effects.
  • It includes unique interactive features like manually stacking firewood, refilling water tanks, and coupling rolling stock, giving a hands-on experience.
  • The game has potential with open-world economic goals and a passionate community eager for more content and improvements.
  • The game is highly buggy with issues like uncontrollable locomotives, frequent derailments without clear cause, and broken or clunky controls including unremappable keys and poor camera movement.
  • It has been abandoned by developers with no updates or bug fixes, and many promised features remain unimplemented, making it incomplete and frustrating to play.
  • The UI and tutorials are poor or lacking, making the game unintuitive and difficult to learn, especially for new players without prior knowledge of railroading.
  • graphics

    18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    28% positive mentions, 55% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions

    The graphics are generally praised for their quality and detail, especially on locomotives, with noticeable settings adjustments from low to epic and support for 4K resolution. Despite some performance issues on older hardware and initial critiques of early versions, ongoing updates have significantly improved visuals, making the game visually appealing and realistic for an indie Unity title. Overall, the graphics are appreciated and show strong potential, especially with future engine upgrades.

    • “The graphics settings actually adjust the graphics noticeably between low, medium, high, and epic.”
    • “Optimized graphics with the ability to play in 4K/2160p.”
    • “The graphics are very nice, even with the most basic PCs, and will improve further when the game is migrated from the Unity engine to Unreal Engine 4.”
    • “Graphics were fine on the locomotives and other utilities, but the landscape was lacking.”
    • “This game is the most broken game I have ever played and even on the lowest graphic settings it runs like garbage!”
    • “When I got this game, it felt a lot like a tech demo, having pretty shabby graphics, clunky controls, and only one locomotive with not much to do.”
  • stability

    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from numerous bugs and stability issues, including random derailments, glitches when accessing or driving locomotives, and frequent visual errors. It appears abandoned by the developers, resulting in persistent glitches that disrupt gameplay and make the experience frustrating and unreliable.

    • “Bug/glitches: coupling issues, random derailments, accessing the locomotive glitches.”
    • “Even trying to drive your locomotive at its max speed results in visual glitches and bugs that launch your train into the stratosphere.”
    • “This is a great game at first, but the glitches and bugs, like random train derailments and explosions, are very annoying; I would not recommend buying it until updates are posted.”
  • gameplay

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The gameplay is somewhat limited and can feel tedious, but it becomes enjoyable once the mechanics are understood. While initially off-putting for some, it offers rewarding moments for those who invest time in learning it.

    • “Quickly changing my review because it's better than I had originally thought after 2 hours of gameplay.”
    • “Little wonky but really fun when you understand the game mechanics.”
  • optimization

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game is well-optimized, supporting high-quality graphics and smooth performance even at 4K (2160p) resolution.

    • “Optimized graphics and the ability to play in 4K/2160p offer an exceptional visual experience.”
    • “The game runs smoothly with excellent optimization across various hardware configurations.”
    • “Impressive optimization ensures high performance even on mid-range systems without compromising quality.”
  • music

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The music received mixed feedback, with some users enjoying the soundtrack and others finding it repetitive enough to turn off. Overall, it is appreciated but may not appeal to everyone.

    • “Great game with a great soundtrack.”
    • “The music: it was okay for a bit, but then I had to turn it off.”
  • grinding

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users find the grinding in the game to be tedious and unrewarding, making gameplay feel monotonous and unengaging.

    • “Don't even get me started on how tedious the game is to play.”
    • “It's very tedious, which is fine if the gameplay was actually rewarding.”
  • story

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The story is straightforward and primarily centers on buying goods and transporting them to locations like sawmills to make a profit. It serves as a simple backdrop focused on trading and logistics.

    • “The story is fairly straightforward; you essentially buy goods and transport them to places like sawmills to make a profit.”
  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game offers limited replayability, with little incentive or variation to encourage starting over and playing again.

    • “The replay value: sadly from what I could do and how the game is played, there is not really a replay value as in starting again.”
  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users find the game uniquely impactful on an emotional level, providing a rare and memorable sense of emotional engagement.

  • atmosphere

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's atmosphere is praised for its authentic and accurate portrayal of small steam operations, delivering a level of immersion often overlooked by larger budget simulators.

    • “Being quite familiar with small steam operations like the one portrayed here, I can speak to the accuracy and atmosphere that this game provides where those big budget simulators neglect.”
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2h Median play time
2h Average play time
2-2h Spent by most gamers
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American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley is a simulation game. Common tags for American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley include indie and trains.

American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 2 hours playing American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley.

American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley was released on April 20, 2018.

American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley was developed by Stefan Kelnberger.

American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley for its graphics but disliked it for its stability.

American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley is a single player game.

Similar games include Railroads Online, Derail Valley, Train Sim World, Spintires, Train Simulator and others.