IndieSimulationStrategy
Bounty Train
Give it 15 hours
Gets good by 15h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 31% of owners
Steam reviews 70% positive of 1,744
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (51%); after 20h it's 1 in 5 (19%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 79% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 31% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,752 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 20.7h for positive, 9.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (30.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (30)
- First Savings Collect $10,000 100%
- Pullman Car Convey 25 passengers. 79%
- Financial Sustainability Collect $25,000 71%
- 1, 2, 3... Sold! Win an auction. 68%
- Man of Reliance Complete 100 quests. 65%
- Piggybanker Earn 1000$ worth of interest on your bank deposit. 63%
- Double kill Kill 2 foes with one blast. 61%
- Jessie James Find yourself on a wanted poster. 60%
- Logistician Complete 50 requests to transport goods. 58%
- Tycoon People owning a bankroll of $50,000 are hugely respected among businessmen. Become one of them! 56%
- Unhindered Obtain licenses to travel all routes in the game. 46%
- Family Embraces Locate all members of your kin and help them out. 42%
- Swimming in Money Obtain one million dollar turnover through all sessions of the game. 41%
- Dreamrider Purchase Sierra 4-6-0 locomotive. 35%
- Victory for Family Honor! Collect 51% shares and regain family ownership of the company. 30%
- Sheriff Kill 500 foes. 29%
- Daredevil Break land speed record - reach 75 miles per hour! 23%
- Triple Kill Kill 3 foes with one blast. 17%
- Natural Born Courier Deliver 15 letters to the post offices. 17%
- Union's Ally Earn +100 of Union's faith 15%
- Real Estate Baron Win 10 auctions for real estate properties. 14%
- Сurious person Thank you for watching the credits at the end of the campaign :) 9.4%
- Bounty Hunter Enforce law and order. Kill 7 wanted criminals. 7.8%
- Smuggler Do 10 smuggling runs for the bootleggers in the saloon. 7.4%
- Faithful Confederate Earn +100 of Confederate Army's trust 7.1%
- Railbuff Gather a complete collection of all locomotives. 5.2%
- Standard Oil Purchase 3 oil wells. 4.9%
- Conglomerate Be in possession of a Coal mine, Steel factory, Tools factory and Weapon factory simultaneously. 4.9%
- Been Far and Wide Cover 1 million miles during all sessions of the game. 4.9%
- Le Voyage dans la Lune Ride 380 000 km on a single locomotive. 4.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.