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Train Sim World® 3

Dovetail Games · Dovetail Games - TSW · 2022-09-06

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Simulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Third person, Bird view / Isometric, Side view

Releases: Sep 06, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 06, 2022 (Xbox One), Sep 06, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Sep 06, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Sep 06, 2022 (PlayStation 4)

Conquer American mountains as you haul incredible tonnage with the workhorses of industry, get the British capital’s commuters to work in record time and race state-to-state aboard German high-speed traction. Master the machine with Train Sim World 3.

Train Sim World® 3 is a Simulation game released in 2022, priced at $24.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 4632 reviews).

26
playing now
79%
positive of 4.6k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
3
Nexus mods (29 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

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

Trailer

Train Sim World® 3 trailer thumbnail

Train Sim World 3 - Launch Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 26 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 99 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~12/week).
  • · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (600 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 16,650 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 93k–208k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,632 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2024-07-11) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $49.99 · on sale 21 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
48148120222026Week of 2022-09-01: 481 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 348 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4482026-09-14 23:00 — 14 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 18 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 32 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 20 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 16 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 34 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 13 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 15 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 33 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 22 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 16 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 20 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 24 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 16 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 32 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 44 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 15 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 23 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 19 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 8 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 31 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 40 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 8 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 26 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
87223Sep 2022Aug 2026Sep 2022 — avg 678 · peak 1,638Nov 2022 — avg 426 · peak 892Jan 2023 — avg 566 · peak 1,161Mar 2023 — avg 605 · peak 1,778May 2023 — avg 493 · peak 1,051Jul 2023 — avg 872 · peak 1,752Sep 2023 — avg 426 · peak 896Nov 2023 — avg 277 · peak 651Jan 2024 — avg 200 · peak 490Mar 2024 — avg 141 · peak 306May 2024 — avg 106 · peak 243Jul 2024 — avg 101 · peak 271Sep 2024 — avg 77 · peak 162Nov 2024 — avg 53 · peak 111Jan 2025 — avg 51 · peak 109Mar 2025 — avg 42 · peak 93May 2025 — avg 37 · peak 76Jul 2025 — avg 31 · peak 62Sep 2025 — avg 31 · peak 68Nov 2025 — avg 31 · peak 66Jan 2026 — avg 35 · peak 75Mar 2026 — avg 29 · peak 60May 2026 — avg 25 · peak 55Jul 2026 — avg 24 · peak 56Aug 2026 — avg 26 · peak 52
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$49.99$0.002022-08-092026-10-092022-08-09 — best price $49.992022-09-07 — best price $39.992022-09-22 — best price $39.992022-10-19 — best price $39.992022-10-29 — best price $39.992022-11-12 — best price $33.592022-12-08 — best price $37.492022-12-22 — best price $29.992023-01-05 — best price $49.992023-02-16 — best price $49.992023-03-30 — best price $49.992023-04-20 — best price $49.992023-05-13 — best price $49.992023-05-23 — best price $49.992023-06-14 — best price $39.992023-06-24 — best price $49.992023-07-21 — best price $15.002023-08-03 — best price $39.992023-09-12 — best price $39.992023-12-11 — best price $39.992024-01-15 — best price $7.992024-02-06 — best price $39.992024-03-15 — best price $39.992024-03-23 — best price $39.992024-03-31 — best price $39.992024-04-29 — best price $19.992024-06-01 — best price $37.992024-06-13 — best price $39.992024-07-31 — best price $39.992025-09-29 — best price $12.492025-12-01 — best price $24.992026-02-05 — best price $12.492026-04-02 — best price $24.992026-06-25 — best price $9.992026-07-23 — best price $49.992026-09-04 — best price $0.002026-09-25 — best price $0.002026-10-09 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
91.5%
earned "TSW3: First Step"
2.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportStatsFamily Sharing79 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian

Post-launch support: 79 DLC released, first 2022-02-17, latest 2023-08-10 (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

TrainsDrivingPhysicsRelaxingRealisticOpen WorldSimulationAtmosphericMultiplayerFirst-Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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