Golden Rails: The heart of the state
Top-down time-management strategy about repairing railroads and neglected towns
Alawar Casual · Released May 1, 2025
- Reviews
- Positive
- 94% of 16
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 2
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update
- Unknown
- no patch notes found
What is Golden Rails: The heart of the state?
A top-down, single-player time-management strategy game set in a neglected Western state. Across 60 levels and six minigame stages, you schedule construction, gather resources, use bonuses, clear roads, repair railroads, restore parks, and collect owls as Jack, Jill, and gubernatorial candidate Sophia confront corrupt officials and bandits.
For you if...
- +you enjoy scheduling construction and resource collection
- +you prefer colorful, family-friendly Western settings
- +you like level-based play with collectibles and minigames
Not for you if...
- −you want open-world exploration rather than structured levels
- −you dislike time-management and resource-planning puzzles
- −you primarily want a multiplayer strategy game
Screenshots and trailer
Golden Rails: The heart of the state system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7 or later
- Processor
- 2 GHz processor
- Graphics
- GPU with at least 512MB of VRAM
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 600 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 69
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Tags
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