NIMBY Rails

NIMBY Rails is a management sandbox for railways built on the real world. You design train tracks, set up lines and get the rolling stock moving to make money and serve the population's needs. If you have strong opinions on rail projects and want to test your own ideas, this is the game for them.

The whole planet is your canvas, a fully detailed real-world map at 1cm resolution where you can build a link from Lisbon to Shanghai, Anchorage to Buenos Aires, or anywhere else. Your tracks must respect real roads and streets, so too many crossings can make a design unworkable. Streamlined circulation mechanics keep a large network manageable, with automatic double tracks and signaling, but you can disable the automatic aids to control every track, signal and building yourself, designing detailed stations and flying junctions.

The simulation runs deep, modeling individual passengers who board multiple trains and wait at transfer stations, with demand flowing by time of day and week across time zones, and passengers continuously rating their trips by travel time and fares. Trams, subways, commuter, regional and high-speed trains run on tunnels, viaducts and ground tracks with real trade-offs. It is single-player and offline-first, with optional cooperative multiplayer for building together in real time.