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Steel Artery: Train City Builder

SoulAge23, Crytivo

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

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About This Game

Steel Artery is a train-city building simulator set in a steampunk fantasy world. Your task is to create a thriving city on wheels, where every wagon is a new piece of infrastructure and every decision shapes the lives of thousands of inhabitants.

Once upon a time, the Empire built the legendary Steelpolis, a colossal train that showcased technological power, economic dominance, and authority. It traveled across vast provinces, enforcing order, collecting tribute, and dazzling the masses. But now, the Empire’s treasury is empty, its lands fractured, and its infrastructure on the brink of collapse. To save it, the Emperor revives the abandoned project—and you are appointed as the mayor of this reborn city on rails.

A living world on wheels

Unlike traditional city-builders, you do not give direct commands. Citizens are autonomous, driven by their own needs and choices. They work, eat, rest, and spend money based on their own choices and circumstances. A worker may refuse a faraway job, quit after earning enough gold, or pick a new profession entirely. You provide opportunities—they shape their lives.

Multiracial colonies

Humans, elves, orcs, and other races bring unique needs and values to your train. They form relationships, carry their own histories, and interact in ways that can foster cooperation or create cultural tension. Managing these diverse communities is as vital as expanding your economy.

Economy and logistics

Every building generates or consumes resources. Workers need salaries, inns charge for rest, and diners demand payment for meals. To keep your city thriving, you must stop in resource-rich regions, extract what you need, and plan your wagon layouts carefully. Space is limited, logistics are complex, and efficiency is the key to survival.

Your city, your story

Will you design a compact, fast-moving train for a tight human colony, or create a sprawling leviathan filled with thousands of inhabitants? Each path offers unique challenges and emergent stories.

Key Features

  • Unique city-on-train building with wagon-based expansion

  • Colonies of autonomous citizens with economy-driven behavior

  • Multiracial populations with distinct needs and cultures

  • Resource gathering and logistics across diverse regions

  • Steampunk fantasy world brought to life with atmospheric pixel art

  • High replayability through countless city variations

Steel Artery Train City Builder challenges you to balance growth, survival, and social harmony aboard a moving city. The future of the Empire rides with you.

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  1. Dev Update

    Hello everyone! I know it has been a long time since the last update, so I want to be clear: Steel Artery has not been abandoned, and work on the game continues. Unfortunately,…

  2. What Stations Will Look Like in the Game

    Hello everyone! Work on optimization is in full swing. I significantly underestimated the complexity of moving parts of the game to C++, and I'm still working on it. However, I…

  3. Train crashed into the wall

    Hello everyone! Well… this hurt a lot. The game launched with good reviews, and within just a couple of days dropped to 62% positive. Honestly, over these last few days I went…

  4. Steel Artery: Train City Builder Has Arrived

    Hello everyone, This is the message I’ve been waiting a long time to write. Steel Artery: Train City Builder is now available on Steam. What started as an idea for a moving city…

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