Metro Rivals: New York – Dovetail’s New Train Simcade Game Announced | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025

Dovetail Games, possibly champion known arsenic the developer and steadfast of the Train Sim World bid of video games, announced a brand-new rubric astatine IGN Fan Fest 2025: Fall Edition– and it’s dissimilar thing they’ve released before.

Metro Rivals: New York is “an innovative and genre-defying subway simcade game” acceptable to merchandise successful aboriginal 2026.

In the game, “players measurement into a near-future New York City wherever the subway strategy has been carved into 10 fiercely contested districts.” In summation to its single-player campaign, Metro Rivals: New York includes a PvP mode wherever up to 4 players tin vie online oregon with friends. Drivers tin “race to halt astatine designated platforms,” and are “scored connected their quality to grip their bid with precision and power nether pressure.”

Metro Rivals: New York’s archetypal trailer was revealed arsenic portion of IGN Fan Fest and, arsenic you tin spot successful the subordinate astatine the apical of the page, gives a little glimpse into bid racing mechanics.

According to Dovetail, the game’s communicative sees “players statesman their travel with thing but a hand-me-down bid and a determination to rise. To succeed, they indispensable instrumentality connected a assortment of missions, gain currency fares, upgrade their train’s performance, physique a loyal following, and gain respect.”

While determination volition beryllium in-game purchases, Dovetail says those are “entirely cosmetic” and that the crippled is not “pay-to-win.” Instead, players “can explicit themselves with extended options to upgrade their train’s performance, use unsocial skins and liveries successful signature colours, and personalise their character’s quality to basal retired connected the tracks.”

And if neither the azygous subordinate run nor the PvP mode is your cupful of tea, you besides person the enactment to partake successful a “more relaxed experience” wherever “players tin acceptable their ain paths, hop into their train, and bask the sights of the city.”

Metro Rivals: New York volition beryllium disposable connected Steam, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S successful aboriginal 2026.

Metro Rivals: New York marks Dovetail’s archetypal usage of Unreal Engine 5 successful the improvement process. They besides collaborated with the squad astatine Reactional Music to utilize a procedural euphony engine, meaning that “music is afloat autochthonal and cinematically integrated successful the game, adjacent erstwhile swapping tracks.’

Metro Rivals: New York is being developed for Steam, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S and is disposable for wishlisting now.