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
- Players
- 4
- daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 1 year ago
- Apr 25, 2025
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
Minimum: GPU with at least 512MB o…, 2 GB RAM, 0.6 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Golden Rails: The heart of the state?
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Set up my PC →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
Does Golden Rails: The heart of the state have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Golden Rails: The heart of the state run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 69
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
- Languages
- Text only: English, German, Russian.
Does Golden Rails: The heart of the state use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
