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Railroads & Catacombs

MadRails · IndieArk · 2025-06-06

Steam

AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Sep 14, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In this exciting Card Building Roguelike game you create your cards from scratch adding different upgrades. Build your train, explore the Labyrinth and survive. Discover infinite synergies. How far will you go?

Railroads & Catacombs is a 2025 Adventure, Indie, RPG and Strategy game priced at $19.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (77% of 413 reviews).

0
playing now
77%
positive of 413 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 75% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (161 reviews).
  • · Top 21% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.3k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 413 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2026-06-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12412420232026Week of 2023-09-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$11.992023-09-152026-08-082023-09-15 — best price $15.292023-10-26 — best price $15.292023-11-21 — best price $13.592023-12-21 — best price $13.592024-03-14 — best price $13.592024-03-25 — best price $12.742024-05-13 — best price $13.592024-06-27 — best price $12.742024-07-15 — best price $12.742024-09-09 — best price $12.742024-10-28 — best price $12.742024-11-27 — best price $13.592024-12-14 — best price $12.742025-01-26 — best price $12.742025-03-13 — best price $12.742025-04-10 — best price $12.742025-04-22 — best price $19.992025-06-13 — best price $19.992025-08-01 — best price $19.992025-09-27 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-11-10 — best price $19.992026-01-12 — best price $19.992026-02-24 — best price $19.992026-04-04 — best price $19.992026-05-18 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-08 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
26.4%
earned "Chapter 1"
2.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)671%60

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

DarkStrategyTacticalDifficultTurn-BasedPerma DeathCard BattlerDeckbuildingEarly AccessLovecraftian

Census log

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

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