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Railroad Tycoon 3 cover art

Railroad Tycoon 3

PopTop · 2K · 2007-05-04

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Nov 22, 2004 (Mac), Oct 27, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...

26
playing now
77%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

26 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Railroad Tycoon 3 is a video game, part of the Railroad Tycoon series, that was released in 2003.

Health check

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  • · Top 28% of 5,887 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 51k–101k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,265 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.49-75%
GOG$2.49-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.49-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.19 at GOG (2018-11-07) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 26 of 47 observed days · $0.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

81242026-08-06 22:00 — 65 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 42 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 58 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 65 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 44 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 65 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 66 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 46 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 73 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 59 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 33 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 60 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 52 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 34 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 44 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 54 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 24 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 53 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 59 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 28 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 39 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 64 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 36 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 49 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 76 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 28 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 30 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 61 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 26 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.492015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $2.492016-01-17 — best price $9.492016-02-05 — best price $2.492016-06-23 — best price $3.742016-12-22 — best price $2.492017-07-25 — best price $7.992017-08-22 — best price $2.492017-09-29 — best price $7.992017-11-08 — best price $7.992017-12-14 — best price $2.492018-01-27 — best price $9.992018-03-08 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $7.992018-08-24 — best price $7.992018-09-26 — best price $7.992018-10-24 — best price $7.992019-01-04 — best price $9.992019-07-30 — best price $2.492020-01-16 — best price $9.992020-03-30 — best price $9.992020-12-16 — best price $2.492021-09-02 — best price $9.992022-02-14 — best price $2.492022-06-24 — best price $9.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-10-17 — best price $9.992024-04-08 — best price $9.632024-08-14 — best price $9.632025-02-13 — best price $2.492025-09-11 — best price $9.992026-02-19 — best price $9.992026-07-15 — best price $2.492026-08-30 — best price $2.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

TrainsClassicEconomySandboxBuildingStrategyHistoricalManagementSimulationSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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