Sid Meier's Railroads!

Sid Meier's Railroads! is an economic strategy developed by Firaxis and Sid Meier. Despite the creation of Railroad Tycoon by Meier, he was inspired by Miniatur Wunderland to reimagine his original creation.

Gameplay

Railroads! is a 3D economic real-time strategy. In contrast to Sid's previous games, the game field of Railroads! is a bit smaller which encourages more interactions between the players. The game has little space for creating flat and long parts of the roads, hence why hills, mountains, rivers, and straits are much more important.

The game focuses more on the economic aspect of railroad building. Players create and sustain a whole industry using the railroad system. The game features an auction system. From time to time, new technologies are up on the auction and the player who made the largest bid is granted exclusive rights on using this tech for ten years. After ten years pass, the technology is made available for every player. It is also possible to put one of the factories the player own up on the auction for sale.

The creation of railroads themselves is much easier and automated than in Railroad Tycoon. Railroad building can also be used to prevent your opponents from creating new useful paths.

The game features 15 historical scenarios where the players can act as several notorious railroad magnates of the past.

A multiplayer mode is also present in the game. Four players can play a game using LAN or Internet.

Sid Meier's Railroads! System Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements:

Minimum
Windows 2000, Windows XP
1.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent
512 MB RAM
64 MB Video card with hardware pixel and vertex shaders (GeForce 3, Radeon 8500 or better)
DirectX 7 compatible sound card
1.7 GB of free disc drive space

Minimum:

• OS: 10.12.4
  
• Processor: 1.8GHz Intel
  
• Memory: 4GB Memory
  
• Graphics: 256MB AMD 4xxx series card or better, 256MB NVIDIA 3xx Series or better, Intel HD 4000 card or better
  
• Hard Drive:2GB HD space
  
• Other Requirements: The following graphics cards are not supported: ATI X1xxx series, ATI HD2xxx series, Intel GMA series, Intel HD3000, NVIDIA 7xxx series, NVIDIA 8xxx series, NVIDIA 9xxx and NVIDIA 1xx series.
  
  
• Multiplayer Notes: Multiplayer is only available over LAN and is compatible between Mac versions only.

Recommended System Requirements:

Recommended
Windows 2000, Windows XP
2.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent (or better)
1GB RAM
128MB videocard with pixel shader 2.0 support (Radeon x800, GeForce 6800)
DirectX 7 compatible sound card
1.7 GB of free disc drive space

Recommended:

• OS: macOS 10.12.4
  
• Processor: 2.4Ghz Intel
  
• Memory: 6GB Memory
  
• Graphics: 1GB AMD 6xxx series card or better, 1GB NVIDIA 6xx series card or better, Intel Iris Pro card or better.
  
• Hard Drive: 2GB HD space
  
• Other Requirements: The following graphics cards are not supported: ATI X1xxx series, ATI HD2xxx series, Intel GMA series, Intel HD3000, NVIDIA 7xxx series, NVIDIA 8xxx series, NVIDIA 9xxx and NVIDIA 1xx series.
  
  
• Multiplayer Notes: Multiplayer is only available over LAN and is compatible between Mac versions only.

Sid Meier's Railroads! Screenshots:

Sources:

• Rawg.io