Games like VLAK

If the retro and minimalist rhythm of VLAK stuck with you, this helps. These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Train Valley 2
A train tycoon puzzle game where you build rail networks, route resources between industries and keep everything moving without a crash. From the Industrial Revolution to the future, across 50 company levels and thousands of community-made ones. Calm to look at, quietly demanding to run.
Minimalist, Replayable
90% of 2,381 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 122$14.99
Conduct DELUXE!
Conduct DELUXE! is an addictive game of explosive railway action that will challenge your inner conductor.
Retro, Minimalist, Replayable
83% of 213 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Trainatic
Trainatic is an incremental game about one very ambitious train. You chug down procedurally generated tracks, blast obstacles to bits, gather resources and pour them into new cars, weapons and a deep skill tree. It starts as a tiny engine with a peashooter and ends as a screen-clearing machine. Bright, colorful and low-pressure, it is a satisfying loop of shoot, collect, upgrade, repeat.
Retro
89% of 1,115 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$5.99
Train Valley Origins
The cutest management game about trains. 🚂 Choo-choo! Manage increasingly complex railroad. The rich history of railway transport awaits! From steam engines to futuristic marvels. Explore different eras and countries and witness the evolution of train technology. 🛤️🚂🚄❤️
Minimalist, Replayable
75% of 268 Steam reviews are positive$11.95
Runaway Train
Train is leaving the station, but soon you notice, that something is missing... Rails! You have to lay tracks right in the path of the moving train to keep it from crashing. The goal is connect all stations, if you can... The problem is that the train is getting faster and faster with each laid piece of track.
Retro, Minimalist, Replayable
91% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
My Train Arrives
My Train Arrives is a railway construction simulation game. Build railroads, open new routes for trains. Enjoy the pleasant atmosphere of the game.
Minimalist, Replayable
86% of 96 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Railbound
A cozy track-bending puzzle game about two dogs riding a train around the world. Lay rails, flip switches and time barriers so every carriage hooks up to the locomotive in the right order. Over 240 puzzles, a level editor, and art and music that stay friendly even when the puzzles stop being polite.
Minimalist
94% of 1,833 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$12.99
Paper Train Traffic
Paper Train Traffic is here to test your mind and reflexes with increasingly complex challenges. From single railroads to multi railway nodes, your task is to supervise the ongoing train traffic of many different locations around the World.
Minimalist, Replayable
76% of 90 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Blitzkrieg Express
Survive and defend your land against the armored train in this arcade achievement-attack puzzle. Think smart, find the right sequence to create combos by destroying wagons with different bonuses to speed up and boost your cannon, and stop the train before it stops you.
Retro, Replayable
74% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Loopomotive
Loopomotive is a short casual train survival game where you drive a train stuck in a loop that never stops! You can accelerate or slow down the train, but never stop it. Avoid accidents to complete levels!
Minimalist
89% of 37 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Train Hero
Train Hero is a train railway action puzzle game with a retro feel. It’s easy to play but hard to master and you only need one click to play.
Retro, Minimalist, Replayable
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Derail Valley
Drive massive steam and diesel locomotives across 256 km² of open railway country. Haul cargo between industries, earn money, buy licenses and bigger engines, and live with every mistake: derailing is real physics, not a popup.
Replayable
96% of 9,606 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 303$39.99

Hidden gems like VLAK

A Bumpy Ride

Take a jaunt into the world of A Bumpy Ride, a cozy train-driving and exploration game!

$14.99

Unrailed 2: Back on Track

Chop wood, build track ahead of a speeding train and keep the chaos under control with your friends, one run at a time.

$19.99

Happy Wheels

Pick an underprepared racer, roll through user-made obstacle courses and see how long you last before the gore starts.

$4.99

Back in Service: a Metro Driver

Take the cab of a historic Prague metro train, keep to the timetable and unwind in the quiet tunnels between runs.

$18.99

Trainatic

Ride procedurally generated tracks, blast what blocks the rails and turn the loot into a bigger, meaner engine.

$5.99

Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom

You drive a wind-up taxi that flips, dashes and bumps its way through trippy retro worlds, collecting everything that is not nailed down.

$6.79

Locomoto

Customise and manage your train, tend to quirky passengers, gather resources, craft decorations, and upgrade your conductors style all accompanied…

$24.99

Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator

Drive a Soviet VL10 locomotive through 840 km of frozen Siberia in first person.

$19.99

Station to Station

Build a miniature rail network at your own pace, then chase high scores if you feel like pushing it.

$17.99

Frostrain

Build a train from cards, keep your passengers alive and race a frozen apocalypse to the Promised Land.

Free

Rail Route

Lay tracks, dispatch trains and automate your junctions into a calm, self-working network.

$24.99

Railbound

A cozy track-bending puzzle game about two dogs riding a train around the world.

$12.99

Newest games like VLAK

Endless Rails

Protect your train with your drones as it rolls through a monster-infested wasteland. Reach new stations to buy new weapons, wagons, and upgrades.

$6.99

Happy Wheels

Pick an underprepared racer, roll through user-made obstacle courses and see how long you last before the gore starts.

$4.99

Unrailed 2: Back on Track

Chop wood, build track ahead of a speeding train and keep the chaos under control with your friends, one run at a time.

$19.99

A Bumpy Ride

Take a jaunt into the world of A Bumpy Ride, a cozy train-driving and exploration game!

$14.99

Lazy Train Game

Lazy Train Game is a relaxing game about building out your railway, collecting resources, crafting tracks, overcoming obstacles, and unlocking new…

$9.99

Trainatic

Ride procedurally generated tracks, blast what blocks the rails and turn the loot into a bigger, meaner engine.

$5.99

Blitzkrieg Express

Survive and defend your land against the armored train in this arcade achievement-attack puzzle.

$4.99

Train Valley Origins

The cutest management game about trains. 🚂 Choo-choo! Manage increasingly complex railroad. The rich history of railway transport awaits!

$11.95

Train Hero

Train Hero is a train railway action puzzle game with a retro feel. It’s easy to play but hard to master and you only need one click to play.

$4.99

Back in Service: a Metro Driver

Take the cab of a historic Prague metro train, keep to the timetable and unwind in the quiet tunnels between runs.

$18.99

Train Valley World

Train Valley World is an engrossing transport tycoon inspired by the genre classics.

$4.99

Teeny Tiny Trains

A cozy, nostalgic puzzle game where you build tracks to guide adorable miniature trains through bite-sized challenges.

$6.99