Derail Valley
2019
- racing
- simulator
- adventure
- indie
- single player
The story
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR. What makes Derail Valley different? You can feel the physics. Walk without restrictions, in and out of locomotives, changing them as you see fit. Couple and uncouple trains as you complete your deliveries. Choose new deliveries freely. Take many at once if you will. Service your trains after derailing. Do this all spontaneously, and at any point you can save and continue later. Built from the ground up for Virtual Reality - optional Derail Valley fully supports playing on a regular PC, using mouse and keyboard on a flat screen, but virtual reality is where it really shines. In VR you can, for the first time ever, truly be inside train cabs and operate controls with your own hands. Derail Valley supports all major PC VR headsets, such as Oculus, Windows Mixed Reality, Valve and HTC.
What it’s like
Hushed, unhurried mornings in a sun-washed countryside, with long views across flat fields and far-off hills under pale, open skies. The look is clean and stylised rather than photoreal, with soft low-poly forms, warm daylight and dusk that slides into lamplit quiet. The soundscape is the main pleasure: the rumble and clank of couplings, the chug of diesel engines settling into idle, the creak of cab doors and the tick of levers under your hand. There is little music to speak of, so the sound of the work carries the mood. The pace is deliberate and self-directed. Days are spent on small, satisfying routines like checking the train, choosing a delivery, coupling cars and rolling out along the line, with occasional derailments that turn into patient repair jobs rather than panic. Tension is low and stakes are mechanical, not violent; there is no combat, gore or threat beyond a wrecked wagon. Cozy and tactile, with a meditative, faintly melancholic calm, it suits a slow weekend, a quiet evening alone or a long comfort session. It is for players who want to get their hands busy, enjoy mechanical detail and find peace in competence, especially in VR.
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