Derail Valley

“Poor performance in VR forces players to reduce graphics settings to a level where it's hard to enjoy the world visually.”

“Despite having outdated graphics, the game runs like absolute garbage even on bleeding-edge systems.”

“Many graphical issues such as floating textures, gaps in geometry, low-res textures, clipping, and graphical glitches detract from the immersion.”

“The only downfall to the game is a lack of a story or narrative; you have to make your own based on your adventures.”

“The tutorial just stops abruptly and then forces you to figure out how each and every single station is different, which is very frustrating and makes you grind the exact same mission repeatedly.”

“The starter locomotive is physically incapable of moving uphill on many tracks because of steep grading, making the randomly generated starter missions impossible unless you reset your progress to get an easy mission.”

“Last few updates are breaking the game, horrible FPS now with random loading events (stuttering, not loading screens).”

“I really want to like this game, but the elephant in the room for me is the sheer performance issues, especially around the offices where you accept missions. The performance is ungodly awful there, and there's seemingly nothing intense happening, so it's a bit of a head-scratcher.”

“Performance is horrible, new features don't really work in VR, all the controls are super floaty and damped, which makes any sort of quick or precise changes really hard. Overall experience is much, much better in non-VR mode.”

“If you have any affinity towards train simulations, this is going to be very fun, but you have to be aware it is very buggy and tends to work poorly, at least in VR.”

“Buggy as heck and unplayable.”

“I spent money and game is unplayable and buggy as hell.”

“It can't do very much, so you will be grinding hard for money for probably the first 15 hours of the game.”

“This is a great game for those who have hours and hours of free time because ever since the new fees and licenses crap it makes the game much longer which is great for people who enjoy grinding. Now before everyone starts yelling at me saying that sandbox mode is on the way I'll change it once it's out depending how it's done (if you have to earn it someone's gonna have a bad time). But in all seriousness I got this game before the fees stuff. Though at the time I didn't have the PC to run it, now I do but now I have to grind just to use a different train other than a box, now people say it's easy but once you start getting refueling and fees and stuff it takes a long time and with the licenses you can't do any good jobs that can give you at least a decent amount of money to make progress. But for me one decent load from steel to harbor took me an hour (going 35 to 20) I know I can go faster but why risk all my progress. But onto the main point besides the painful grind, fees and licenses the game is great, it runs smooth for an okay PC (at default settings) and I bet you could make it run even better on the lowest settings, the nice time of messing around with trains (was) great when it was in sandbox mode 24/7 but now that's all gone and I don't know what it's like to use anything else besides a freaking box train that overheats faster than a PC with lava cooling and has the fuel tank size of a peanut with almost no horsepower which is just great. I can't wait until sandbox is made and we are able to use it without having to complete the game or buying it or some other crap.”

“The game is interesting for some time but becomes grindy and repetitive for getting licenses.”

“The boombox cassettes are disappointing, but you can add more internet radio stations to your "c:\steam\steamapps\common\derail valley\derailvalley_data\streamingassets\music\radio."”

“There are some small issues, physics glitches, the map is sometimes dead and lacking detail, game interaction can be clunky, game mechanics that could work better and the in-game cassette player has the worst music I had to listen to in a game (on the other hand, streaming live "simulation radio" is quite genius).”

“Defiantly leave YouTube running in the background as there isn't any in-game music.”

“This one is not, it has what was lacking from the top of the line sims; atmosphere.”

“I wish it had some NPCs just randomly doing stuff for atmosphere.”

“The atmosphere is cold, rainy, green.”

“You aren't railroaded inside some closed scenarios with no replayability, like other train sims.”

“This gives meaning, variety and replayability, a direction; in other games you either do the same scenario over and over again or have a sandbox with no purpose where the only fun thing is to crash the train.”

“New update makes the daytime more playable, but the night is still just as bad.”

“Much better than the cash grab Train Sim World.”

“Coming from Dovetail's Train Sim World(s), Derail Valley feels like much less of a massive cash grab.”

“Whereas most other train simulators have become mostly cash grab games, Derail Valley adds so much more with a development team that actually puts the player first.”