Trainz Simulator 3 User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience51.6% of reviews
Neutral13.5% of reviews
Negative experience34.9% of reviews

~ Based on 719 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Trainz Simulator 3 Safe?

Trainz Simulator 3 appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Trainz Simulator 3 is 76/100.

This assessment is based on 1,591 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.8/5.

Safety Analysis

69.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
22.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,591 App Store ratings for Trainz Simulator 3.

Is Trainz Simulator 3 Legit?

Trainz Simulator 3 appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Trainz Simulator 3 is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Minor Bugs

We need more American steam! Good game nonetheless, some sounds don’t match the locomotive they are on but A for Effort!

Store doesn’t work, otherwise fine

The content store doesn’t load, but other than that, it’s really good. Very detailed and realistic

JNR(Japan) steam locomotives

Trainz Simulator 3 don’t have any Japan steam locomotives, and that make me sad, I’m wish they add them in for past JNR days, enough dub I’m am an American, I’m like all steam locomotives include overseas steam locomotives, so please, pretty please, add JNR steam locomotives to Trainz Simulator 3, and if you not know them, respect research them by their class names from C62 to other JNR steam locomotives, and I’m will gives 5 stars
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When is the new 'Service Pack 2 (SP2) coming to TS3 mobile 📱 for world building tools? 🧰

This game, is pretty good, despite it's flaws and issues, this game has never disappointed me, apart from content with hardly new DLC’s like:
- Kickstarter County 2 (KSC2) Mission Pack 1 (winter edition)
- Bavaria/Bayern: Immenstadt-Oberstdorf (not much choice of trains to use in this route, apart from the DB BR 633 & DB BR 218 diesel locomotives)
- BNSF Raton Pass | Trinidad to Raton (same DLC's from other routes like Inyo Mountains and the Badgers Pass: The Western Branch route)
- Badgers Pass: The Eastern Branch (again re-used content but comes with new Superliner Phase 7 pack, so I’ll give this one a 8.1/10)
- Eifel Railway: Bitburg-Trier (again re-used assets)
- Brocken Railway (Brockenbahn) Winter edition
- ProTrain: Inyo Lake 1 (ok, but not 100% perfect)
The good add-ons
- SR Maunsell Lord Nelson
- SR King Arthur
- Metropolitan E Class
- BR Holmes J36
- BR Hunslet J94
- Australia Mission Pack 2
- Christmas Time on KSC & SAR Petersborough
- ProTrain: Amtrak P42DC (full pack)
- Altoona Marshalling Yard (Altoona Works)
- Big Boy in the Rockies (mission pack) (with UP DDA40X & UP #4014 Big Boy, 4-8-8-4)
- City & Country Mission Pack 2 (MP2) (old Classic’s)
- City & Country Mission Pack 3 (SP GS-4 'Daylight')
- City & Country Mission Pack 4 (250th years of USA 🇺🇸)
- ProTrain: US Tank Car Bundle Package
- BNSF Marias Pass
- Kicking Horse Pass
- Tehachapi Loop
- ProTrain: ICE 4 Collection
- Swayfield Branch UK
- Colchester-Harwich
- Sand Patch Grade
- Atlantic Coast Express
- PT Alpine Lake 1
- PT Alpine Lake 2
- PT Alpine Lake 3
- PT Alpine Lake 4 - The Lake Alm Railway
- PT Yellowstone Mountain (Mt.) & Central Railroad (RR) (YMCR/YM&CRR)
- Badgers Pass & Elk Canyon
- BR Class 42 Warhead/Warship Pack
- SECR D Class & Birdcage pack
- VT 11.5 TEE
- TEE Rheingold
- PT Rheingold 1928
- N&W Y6B
- PRR T1
- Broadway Limited
All in all, when is world building tools eventually coming to this game?
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They should add more American steam locos

It’s good but I just want more American steam locos for free

Okay really good game but..

I bought this game a few weeks back, and i must say i have been impressed by most things, but there is WAY too much payware. Yes, it fixes the rolling stock gap from Trainz 2, but Trainz 3 could really have some more free trains. It just feels like we’re getting the bare minimum. Thus, i still prefer to play Trainz 2.
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Best Mobile Train Game Ever!

Hey, everyone! CoopMan2121 here. If you’re a rail fan or interested in trains, get this game!

For a while, there was a white screen error. Guess what? It’s fixed! And if you deleted the game and then redownloaded it on the same device, you can get everything you had and bought for FREE. If it says error when redownloading inside the game, just get out of the queue and it will be there, ready for use! ✅

I play Train Sim World 5 on Xbox S, so I have a few recommendations that would help you challenge TSW5’s throne:

-Adding In-Cab-Driving
-Moving and breathing people
-Weather events like lightning and thunder and natural disasters
-Remove a lot of the FOUR PERCENT GRADES; REALLY? 🫥.

I must tell you that this is the best mobile train game ever; tycoon or simulator, this game tops them by a landslide. ⛰️

I like how the cars rock back and forth but the only time I’ve seen boxcars shake like that is on a video of a 20th century railroad whose workers are on strike. 🤪

I like how y’all added moving wheels because on your second version of Trainz the wheels on 99% of the locomotives and rolling stock just slid down the track like they were on ice 🫠.

The graphics are just breathtaking in this game😱.

I am also kind of confused on how an SP locomotive found its way onto the Rocky Mountain map for the freight run mission. I understand that they were on the southern edge of the range, but it is not that green. Also, how are CSX trains there?! The main range they cross is Sand Patch Grade and the Appalachian Mountains!

I have no complaints but I have a list of suggestions for rolling stock, locomotives, and routes:

- More New York Central, Pennsylvania RR, and Penn Central rolling stock (IF YOU HAVE A DREYFUS WHERE ARE THE NYC PASSENGER CARS?!)
-SP Daylight Limited trains
-More F7s (A hot rot F7… really N3V? Really? 😕🗿)
-U.P 4014 & 844 with some of the 50’s UP streamlined passenger cars
-The Blue Comet
-UP turbine locomotives (although maybe turn down the physics on the locomotives because they were constantly derailing in real life)
-Actual derailment and crash physics; not just a rotating x
-Horseshoe Curve
-NYC-Washington D.C
-Gulf Coast Division (South Texas to New Orleans) because of the refineries, ports, and switching and long-haul freight opportunities
-Lancaster-LA-San Bernardino-Barstow

I have another topic: the famous Union Pacific 4014. Where is it?! Dozens of train games have it; TRAINZ TWO HAS IT! (Or at least#4008). Y’all, I’ve coded some games so it can’t be hard to make one locomotive and a tender. Trust me, I am truly an avid Big Boy fan. I have ridden on passenger cars pulled by it (no joke, I have seen myself riding it on YouTube), so I would love to preserve the memory of the experience in this game. I am truly begging you to add this. If you add the formation, please please PLEASE add Sherman Hill or Cheyenne or Wasatch Grade, as that was the locomotive’s original area of operation. I would love to see some recognition for this iconic moving piece of railroad history.

Another thing: world edit. There is no way you get out of this one, N3V. You wouldn’t have to always make more routes because us railfans would be making our OWN. Just copy the code from Trainz 2, add Trainz 3 scenery coding to it, and voila! Better reviews.

I am concerned with how this game acts with my iPhone. Like you know the meme with the loud PC that sounds like a jet engine? That’s what my phone acts like when I make a 90 car train. It’s not loud but you can hear the fans turn on and it heats up. Is this an N3V problem or Apple? N3V, please get back to me on this. Also, this game eats up my battery.

Also, it would be cool if we could make our own locomotives and/or paint schemes. Like making our own Allegheny 4-6-6-4 and maybe even a BIG BOY!

Still though, this game is awesome. Good, no outstanding job N3V!

I will say this: y’all have dozens of American steam locomotives, yet TSW5 has ZERO! That is awesome!

Happy railfanning! 🚅🚂🚞🚈🔔📢

-CoopMan2121

P.S. I will say that I kind of cheated the system by getting TS3 before it cost money. Sorry devs, but maybe don’t wait to price the game because I think a few thousand of us got it for free. 🤪
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Strasberg railroad

So WHEN IS STRASBURG RAILROAD BEING ADDED? i’ve been playing trainz 2019 AND IT STILL I WANT THIS GAME TO HAVE STRASBURG RAILROADS AND THEN I CAN RECORD SOME VIDEOS ON STRASBURG IN THIS GAME LIKE PLEASE TRAINZ *and Tweetsie railroad* AND *the Toledo Lake Erie and western railway and museum*

Best Mobile Train Game Ever!

Hey, everyone! CoopMan2121 here. If you’re a rail fan or interested in trains, get this game!

For a while, there was a white screen error. Guess what? It’s fixed! And if you deleted the game and then redownloaded it on the same device, you can get everything you had and bought for FREE. If it says error when redownloading inside the game, just get out of the queue and it will be there, ready for use! ✅

I play Train Sim World 5 on Xbox S, so I have a few recommendations that would help you challenge TSW5’s throne:

-Adding In-Cab-Driving
-Moving and breathing people
-Weather events like lightning and thunder and natural disasters
-Remove a lot of the FOUR PERCENT GRADES; REALLY? 🫥.

I must tell you that this is the best mobile train game ever; tycoon or simulator, this game tops them by a landslide. ⛰️

I like how the cars rock back and forth but the only time I’ve seen boxcars shake like that is on a video of a 20th century railroad whose workers are on strike. 🤪

I like how y’all added moving wheels because on your second version of Trainz the wheels on 99% of the locomotives and rolling stock just slid down the track like they were on ice 🫠.

The graphics are just breathtaking in this game😱.

I am also kind of confused on how an SP locomotive found its way onto the Rocky Mountain map for the freight run mission. I understand that they were on the southern edge of the range, but it is not that green. Also, how are CSX trains there?! The main range they cross is Sand Patch Grade and the Appalachian Mountains!

I have no complaints but I have a list of suggestions for rolling stock, locomotives, and routes:

- More New York Central, Pennsylvania RR, and Penn Central rolling stock (IF YOU HAVE A DREYFUS WHERE ARE THE NYC PASSENGER CARS?!)
-SP Daylight Limited trains
-More F7s (A hot rot F7… really N3V? Really? 😕🗿)
-U.P 4014 & 844 with some of the 50’s UP streamlined passenger cars
-The Blue Comet
-UP turbine locomotives (although maybe turn down the physics on the locomotives because they were constantly derailing in real life)
-Actual derailment and crash physics; not just a rotating x
-Horseshoe Curve
-NYC-Washington D.C
-Gulf Coast Division (South Texas to New Orleans) because of the refineries, ports, and switching and long-haul freight opportunities
-Lancaster-LA-San Bernardino-Barstow

I have another topic: the famous Union Pacific 4014. Where is it?! Dozens of train games have it; TRAINZ TWO HAS IT! (Or at least#4008). Y’all, I’ve coded some games so it can’t be hard to make one locomotive and a tender. Trust me, I am truly an avid Big Boy fan. I have ridden on passenger cars pulled by it (no joke, I have seen myself riding it on YouTube), so I would love to preserve the memory of the experience in this game. I am truly begging you to add this. If you add the formation, please please PLEASE add Sherman Hill or Cheyenne or Wasatch Grade, as that was the locomotive’s original area of operation. I would love to see some recognition for this iconic moving piece of railroad history.

Another thing: world edit. There is no way you get out of this one, N3V. You wouldn’t have to always make more routes because us railfans would be making our OWN. Just copy the code from Trainz 2, add Trainz 3 scenery coding to it, and voila! Better reviews.

I am concerned with how this game acts with my iPhone. Like you know the meme with the loud PC that sounds like a jet engine? That’s what my phone acts like when I make a 90 car train. It’s not loud but you can hear the fans turn on and it heats up. Is this an N3V problem or Apple? N3V, please get back to me on this. Also, this game eats up my battery.

Also, it would be cool if we could make our own locomotives and/or paint schemes. Like making our own Allegheny 4-6-6-4 and maybe even a BIG BOY!

Still though, this game is awesome. Good, no outstanding job N3V!

I will say this: y’all have dozens of steam locomotives, yet TSW5 has ONE! That is awesome!

Happy railfanning! 🚅🚂🚞🚈🔔📢

-CoopMan2121

P.S. I will say that I kind of cheated the system by getting TS3 before it cost money. Sorry devs, but maybe don’t wait to price the game because I think a few thousand of us got it for free. 🤪
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Multiplayer where is it? Needs to be added.

big boy 4014 Union Pacific Steam Excursion Train Auxiliary Water Tender really needs to be in game for this train that would be awesome. Needs to be added for how old the game is and its updates with and amount of money people spend on this game there really shouldn’t be an issue putting that in game.
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Please update this app!

I have spent hundreds of dollars purchasing nearly everything on this sim and I just want it to work. In theory it’s a fantastic sim but all the bugs are terrible. Please please fix this

Best Mobile Train Game Ever!

Before you read my review, do not read the others. They are mean, insulting, and outdated.

Hey, everyone! CoopMan2121 here. If you’re a rail fan or interested in trains, get this game!

For a while, there was a white screen error. Guess what? It’s fixed! And if you deleted the game and then redownloaded it on the same device, you can get everything you had and bought for FREE. If it says error when redownloading inside the game, just get out of the queue and it will be there, ready for use! ✅

I play Train Sim World 5 on Xbox S, so I have a few recommendations that would help you challenge TSW5’s throne:

-Adding In-Cab-Driving
-Moving and breathing people
-Weather events like lightning and thunder and natural disasters
-Remove a lot of the FOUR PERCENT GRADES; REALLY? 🫥.

I must tell you that this is the best mobile train game ever; tycoon or simulator, this game tops them by a landslide. ⛰️

I like how the cars rock back and forth but the only time I’ve seen boxcars shake like that is on a video of a 20th century railroad whose workers are on strike. 🤪

I like how y’all added moving wheels because on your second version of Trainz the wheels on 99% of the locomotives and rolling stock just slid down the track like they were on ice 🫠.

The graphics are just breathtaking in this game😱.

I am also kind of confused on how an SP locomotive found its way onto the Rocky Mountain map for the freight run mission. I understand that they were on the southern edge of the range, but it is not that green. Also, how are CSX trains there?! The main range they cross is Sand Patch Grade and the Appalachian Mountains!

I have no complaints but I have a list of suggestions for rolling stock, locomotives, and routes:

- More New York Central, Pennsylvania RR, and Penn Central rolling stock (IF YOU HAVE A DREYFUS WHERE ARE THE NYC PASSENGER CARS?!)
-SP Daylight Limited trains
-More F7s (A hot rot F7… really N3V? Really? 😕🗿)
-U.P 4014 & 844 with some of the 50’s UP streamlined passenger cars
-The Blue Comet
-UP turbine locomotives (although maybe turn down the physics on the locomotives because they were constantly derailing in real life)
-Actual derailment and crash physics; not just a rotating x
-Horseshoe Curve
-NYC-Washington D.C
-Gulf Coast Division (South Texas to New Orleans) because of the refineries, ports, and switching and long-haul freight opportunities
-Lancaster-LA-San Bernardino-Barstow

I have another topic: the famous Union Pacific 4014. Where is it?! Dozens of train games have it; TRAINZ TWO HAS IT! (Or at least#4008). Y’all, I’ve coded some games so it can’t be hard to make one locomotive and a tender. Trust me, I am truly an avid Big Boy fan. I have ridden on passenger cars pulled by it (no joke, I have seen myself riding it on YouTube), so I would love to preserve the memory of the experience in this game. I am truly begging you to add this. If you add the formation, please please PLEASE add Sherman Hill or Cheyenne or Wasatch Grade, as that was the locomotive’s original area of operation. I would love to see some recognition for this iconic moving piece of railroad history.

Another thing: world edit. There is no way you get out of this one, N3V. You wouldn’t have to always make more routes because us railfans would be making our OWN. Just copy the code from Trainz 2, add Trainz 3 scenery coding to it, and voila! Better reviews.

I am concerned with how this game acts with my iPhone. Like you know the meme with the loud PC that sounds like a jet engine? That’s what my phone acts like when I make a 90 car train. It’s not loud but you can hear the fans turn on and it heats up. Is this an N3V problem or Apple? N3V, please get back to me on this. Also, this game eats up my battery.

Also, it would be cool if we could make our own locomotives and/or paint schemes. Like making our own Allegheny 4-6-6-4 and maybe even a BIG BOY!

Still though, this game is awesome. Good, no outstanding job N3V!

I will say this: y’all have dozens of steam locomotives, yet TSW5 has ONE! That is awesome!

Happy railfanning! 🚅🚂🚞🚈🔔📢

-CoopMan2121

P.S. I will say that I kind of cheated the system by getting TS3 before it cost money. Sorry devs, but maybe don’t wait to price the game because I think a few thousand of us got it for free. 🤪
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Strasberg railroad

So WHEN IS STRASBURG RAILROAD BEING ADDED? i’ve been playing trainz 2019 AND IT STILL I WANT THIS GAME TO HAVE STRASBURG RAILROADS AND THEN I CAN RECORD SOME VIDEOS ON STRASBURG IN THIS GAME LIKE PLEASE TRAINZ *and Tweetsie railroad*
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Where is 611

I like the game but they’re missing some engines like 611 or a cab forward 4924 steam locomotive and M1 Yellowstone steam locomotive from the B&O railway. overall I still like the game, but you should add some more routes in this game because it’s getting off limited why you get the Yellowstone peaks route but they didn’t add any steam locomotives for the Yellowstone route.
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Please add

I love this game it’s so realistic and I can play it even if I’m in the car and have bad internet I also love all the locomotives but I would love the game even more if you added my favorite locomotive southern railway 4501 in its heritage green and gold color scheme or add southern railway 630 please but other than that this game is amazing
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DEVELOPERS PLEASE READ

I have a lot of amazing suggestions for what trains should be in this game DEVELOPERS PLSSS READ.

#1 - BNSF SD70ACE

#2 - UP ES44AC (detailed)

#3 - UP SD70ACE

#4 - N&W 611

#5 - N&W 1218

#6 - NS 1074

#7 - NS 1073 Penn Central

#8 - NS 1072 Illinois Terminal

#8 - NS 1070 Wabash

#10 - NS 1069 Virginia Heritage

#11 - NS 1068 Erie Heritage Unit

#12 - NS 1067 Reading Heritage Unit

#13 - NS 1065 Savannah & Atlanta

#14 - NS 1066 New York Central

#15 - Union Pacific’s Executive (Heritage) Fleet, which includes dome cars

#16 - Union Pacific #1776

#17 - Union Pacific #1616

#18 - UP 1982 Missouri Pacific

#19 - UP 1983 Western Pacific

#20 - UP 1988 Katy

#21 - UP 1995 C&NW

#22 - UP 1996 Southern Pacific

#23 - UP 1989 Rio Grande

#24 - Metrolink Trains (this includes Hyundai Rotem bi level coaches, bombardier coaches, EMD F125 Locomotive, F59PHR locomotive, SCAX MP36PH-3C locomotive, Hyundai Rotem cabcars) - Also an add onto the Metrolink trains would be the correct horns used for each locomotive. PLSSS HAVE ACCURATE HORNS.

#25 - Amtrak ALC-42 w/ COMPLETELY ACCURATE HORN

#26 - San Diego Coaster Trains w/ accurate horns

#27 - UP 1943 Spirit Of The Union Pacific

NOW I HAVE SOME ROUTES TO RECOMMEND:

#1 - Cajon Pass in California

#2 - San Diego

#3 - New York City (possible stations)

#4 - Metrolink Antelope Valley Line


THAT IS ALL I HAVE FOR NOW! Developers PLEASE include these trains and routes in the game!! Please!!
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Good 👍🏻

This is a huge upgrade from Trainz 2, and the graphics are just amazing for mobile, please add a ES44AC Standard locomotive, and add back the CSX Saginaw subdivision, and add back the map creater/editor, I would love that…(Keep up this great work!!)

Great! But no surveyor still…

I think personally this game is peak! It has good graphics, good trains, and routes. The only problems I have are: There isn’t a surveyor (yet) and there’s a bug where it just kicks me out the game out of nowhere sometimes. Other than that, great game! :)

wreck

pleeeeees add a realistic train wreck

Addd

Can you add the 4499 Southern Pacific Daylight for the next big update? Thanks!