Diesel Railcar Simulator

Lapioware / Mar 5, 2018 / Casual, Indie, Simulation, Early Access

windows

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Drive vintage diesel trains, shifting gears manually and trying to reach a perfect score. Create new routes, trains and timetables. Share your creations and download new content from the Workshop.

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What's new

Gameplay patch 9

2026-09-01

Gameplay patch 9 is now live with the following changes: Achievements • Halved Flying Shoebox achievement minimum time to five minutes in order to make it easier to unlock • Fixed missed stop penalty and unlocking of the Amnesia achievement • Made it possible to unlock other achievements at the same time with the perfection achievement Physics • Fixed possible incorrect buffer position when two trains are coupled together • Improved accuracy of physics calculations • Optimised CPU and memory usage of physics simulation Miscellanous • Fixed a crash when restarting a rescue scenario • Fixed signaller to not turn points underneath a train in some cases • Adjusted cloud sizes and colours • Clarified train length tooltips in the timetable editor • Optimised some geometry related calculations

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• Added sound preloading: sounds should be audible at start if you let trains load at least partially on the loading screen before starting the run What's next? Another patch coming soon

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What players say

Very Positive

95% positive, 268 reviews

Not recommended3 hrs played

It's difficult to give this game a thumbs down, but at the moment I think I need to. As train sims go, this one does a fantastic job with early DMUs - they feel and sound great, and driving them well is challenging but rewarding. That chunky mechanical 'feel' in particular sets this somewhere between railfan games like TSW and the more hands-on experience of Derail Valley. Scoring is also better handled than most...

8 found this helpful, 2026-01-28

Recommended18 hrs played

Bought DRS a while ago and only played it for 2h. It was not a bad simulator but I just didn't get hooked. I think it was too less of a "game" inside this simulator, for me at least. But I read about a big gameplay update which should introduce a career, achievements ui changes, etc. So I waited. The "gemaplay update" is now released and I am really happy about the progress this simulator made. Careere mode is...

4 found this helpful, 2026-05-10

Recommended5 hrs played

DRS is the rarest of breeds - a realistic train simulator that's still easy to learn. This is a great game for both beginners to and experts at the genre. Its biggest downside is its limited scope. If you have zero interest in 1950s-60s England, there will not be a lot here for you. But what it does do, it does WELL, and it's 100% worth playing.

3 found this helpful, 2026-04-20