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Railroad Tycoon II Platinum cover art

Railroad Tycoon II Platinum

PopTop · 2K · 2007-05-04

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 31, 1998 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.

78
playing now
90%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

Railroad Tycoon II is a business simulation video game in the Railroad Tycoon series developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers. It was released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation and Dreamcast. It was later ported and released for Linux.

Health check

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  • · Top 26% of 5,887 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 56k–112k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,394 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.49-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.49-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.24 at Steam (2014-11-26) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 32 of 43 observed days · $0.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

135482026-08-06 22:00 — 97 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 73 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 98 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 102 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 63 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 109 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 119 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 57 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 118 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 113 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 63 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 111 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 96 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 54 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 111 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 82 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 62 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 92 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 107 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 60 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 78 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 92 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 69 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 89 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 118 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 80 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 75 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 105 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 78 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.52$1.242015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.242016-03-29 — best price $2.992016-11-14 — best price $5.992017-03-13 — best price $5.992017-08-22 — best price $1.242018-01-01 — best price $5.992018-03-12 — best price $1.492018-07-06 — best price $4.672018-11-28 — best price $5.992019-04-22 — best price $1.242019-07-30 — best price $1.242019-12-19 — best price $1.242020-01-16 — best price $4.992020-02-06 — best price $4.932020-03-30 — best price $5.992020-09-15 — best price $4.192021-01-04 — best price $5.992021-06-24 — best price $1.242021-11-01 — best price $4.992022-01-24 — best price $1.492022-03-02 — best price $5.002022-06-03 — best price $4.992022-08-19 — best price $1.242022-11-23 — best price $1.492023-01-12 — best price $4.512023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-07-04 — best price $5.992023-11-28 — best price $4.992024-03-20 — best price $1.492024-05-02 — best price $5.992024-07-27 — best price $4.992024-09-25 — best price $1.492025-01-24 — best price $1.492025-04-10 — best price $1.492025-09-25 — best price $1.492025-12-18 — best price $1.242026-03-27 — best price $1.492026-06-17 — best price $1.492026-08-25 — best price $1.492026-08-30 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

TrainsClassicEconomyStrategyHistoricalManagementSimulationSingleplayerTransportationGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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