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Rolling Line cover art

Rolling Line

Gaugepunk Games · 2018-04-27

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 27, 2018 (SteamVR), Apr 27, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Build your own model railway tracks and scenery or explore pre-made maps, including 1000s of player-made maps and mods on the Steam Workshop! Play solo and in multiplayer, both in virtual reality and on PC!

Rolling Line is a Casual, Indie, Simulation game released in 2018, estimated to have 200,000 .. 500,000 owners, with Overwhelmingly Positive (96% of 2608 reviews) and a price of $19.99.

36
playing now
96%
positive of 2.6k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
22
Nexus mods (115 downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

36 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Rolling Line is an independent PC and VR sandbox game developed and published by New Zealand game developer Gaugepunk Games. The game simulates railway modelling with a low-poly aesthetic in which players can explore and create model-train layouts and share them online for others to play. The game had a delayed release of 28 April 2018 for Microsoft Windows initially with HTC Vive support. It now supports almost most VR headsets including Oculus, Vive, Valve Index and WMR headsets.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 36 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 201 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~25/week).
  • · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 29,044 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 65k–156k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,608 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.19 at Steam (2018-06-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
565620182026Week of 2018-04-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

101212026-09-14 22:00 — 80 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 36 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 35 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 89 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 49 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 31 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 70 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 51 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 35 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 79 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 83 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 23 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 46 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 62 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 32 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 89 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 82 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 24 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 40 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 85 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 41 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 36 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 72 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 36 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
730Mar 2018Aug 2026Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2018 — avg 9 · peak 21Oct 2018 — avg 10 · peak 26Jan 2019 — avg 17 · peak 42Apr 2019 — avg 12 · peak 28Jul 2019 — avg 16 · peak 46Oct 2019 — avg 15 · peak 34Jan 2020 — avg 23 · peak 68Apr 2020 — avg 31 · peak 63Jul 2020 — avg 30 · peak 61Oct 2020 — avg 40 · peak 91Jan 2021 — avg 41 · peak 90Apr 2021 — avg 41 · peak 78Jul 2021 — avg 36 · peak 68Oct 2021 — avg 40 · peak 122Jan 2022 — avg 45 · peak 97Apr 2022 — avg 41 · peak 85Jul 2022 — avg 45 · peak 87Oct 2022 — avg 42 · peak 89Jan 2023 — avg 49 · peak 103Apr 2023 — avg 42 · peak 82Jul 2023 — avg 46 · peak 97Oct 2023 — avg 43 · peak 92Jan 2024 — avg 50 · peak 123Apr 2024 — avg 37 · peak 84Jul 2024 — avg 46 · peak 91Oct 2024 — avg 38 · peak 81Jan 2025 — avg 50 · peak 103Apr 2025 — avg 41 · peak 81Jul 2025 — avg 43 · peak 85Oct 2025 — avg 44 · peak 95Jan 2026 — avg 60 · peak 124Apr 2026 — avg 55 · peak 109Jul 2026 — avg 68 · peak 138Aug 2026 — avg 64 · peak 121
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$11.192018-04-302026-07-272018-04-30 — best price $13.992018-11-14 — best price $16.992019-06-26 — best price $12.742019-12-03 — best price $16.992020-02-10 — best price $19.992020-10-29 — best price $14.992021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-06-24 — best price $14.992021-11-01 — best price $19.992022-01-27 — best price $14.992022-04-08 — best price $13.992022-06-18 — best price $19.992022-08-19 — best price $14.992022-10-24 — best price $14.992022-12-01 — best price $19.992023-03-16 — best price $14.992023-05-13 — best price $19.992023-08-11 — best price $13.992023-11-04 — best price $19.992023-12-15 — best price $14.992024-03-14 — best price $13.992024-05-29 — best price $17.992024-08-10 — best price $19.992024-09-30 — best price $13.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-11 — best price $19.992025-03-03 — best price $12.992025-05-24 — best price $19.992025-10-28 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $16.992026-03-19 — best price $16.992026-06-25 — best price $16.992026-07-27 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3142026-05-31 — 4 pageviews2026-06-04 — 12 pageviews2026-06-08 — 21 pageviews2026-06-12 — 7 pageviews2026-06-16 — 17 pageviews2026-06-20 — 11 pageviews2026-06-24 — 11 pageviews2026-06-28 — 6 pageviews2026-07-02 — 17 pageviews2026-07-06 — 28 pageviews2026-07-10 — 7 pageviews2026-07-14 — 10 pageviews2026-07-18 — 7 pageviews2026-07-22 — 9 pageviews2026-07-26 — 20 pageviews2026-07-30 — 5 pageviews2026-08-03 — 9 pageviews2026-08-07 — 8 pageviews2026-08-11 — 6 pageviews2026-08-15 — 11 pageviews2026-08-19 — 25 pageviews2026-08-23 — 15 pageviews2026-08-27 — 12 pageviews2026-08-31 — 6 pageviews2026-09-04 — 10 pageviews2026-09-08 — 8 pageviews2026-09-12 — 9 pageviews2026-09-16 — 12 pageviews2026-09-20 — 10 pageviews2026-09-24 — 6 pageviews2026-09-28 — 6 pageviews2026-10-02 — 10 pageviews2026-10-06 — 13 pageviews2026-10-10 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerFull controller supportTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedSteam Trading Cards1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-05-21 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

VRIndieCasualTrainsDrivingSandboxBuildingModdableRelaxingSimulation

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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