Developer posts and news about this game.
- Fixed a bug where double clicking Next Phase when you have 0 money would skip the next player's operations phase. - Removed a bunch of code that was no longer in use. - Improved pathfinding while building. It now knows about rivers, lakes and inlets and tries to path more intel
At or around 3pm EST users began reporting that they could not find lobbies or join lobbies with a code. We have confirmed this to be an outage with Microsoft's PlayFab service that we use to facilitate lobby creation and discovery. As far as we know, this issue is impacting many
GenCon 2026 is here! Time sure does fly. Three conventions ago, we founded Zombie Possum Games. Since then, we've released the game as well as our first DLC and now, Empire Builder: Europe Digital is an official event at the convention. We're hosting 2 hour sessions at 9am and 11
Take a step back in time, before the Chunnel existed and revisit one of the original implementations of Eurorails. This DLC is as close to the game as released in 2004 that the digital format would allow. Demand cards, event cards, ferry costs, card, train and map art are all rec
Save Games are here! Solo players and hosts of multiplayer games can now save a game at any time. The game will also auto save in between every turn. Now, when your network decides to take a vacation in the middle of your game just as you are about to win, you can restart from wh
It's been a couple of months since our last release, and we've been heads-down building. Here's what's coming. Save Games The big one. You can now save and resume games at any point — and you don't need the same players to pick back up where you left off. The host can swap player
2026 Roadmap (Quick Look) Here’s what’s coming next for Empire Builder: Eurorails (2004) DLC map Multiplayer improvements including host recovery Deck Seed of the Week community challenge Empire Builder: Ireland in development Xbox for PC release expanding platform support. Playa
Tutorial Changes Added a tutorial item explaining how to move the map. Tutorials will remain properly sequenced from game to game. Build Up Phase Bug Fixes Flushing your cards on your first build turn will no longer sometimes prevent you from building on your second turn. Floods,
Bug Fixes Your track now shows up on the mini map like it used to. Fixed a couple of bugs in bug reporting. Added code to help us troubleshoot local network issues coming from the game's underlying network code. Fixed an issue where the full screen dialog would hide a lobby join
Bug Fixes Building north-east from Dublin to Belfast will now charge you for building across the inlet correctly. No more free rides. The event card, 152 for Munich now properly says Munchen to match the map. Added a Join Our Discord menu item to help increase participation on th
As the year comes to a close, we want to offer our sincere thanks to this incredible community. Separately, but very much together, the two of us have carried the dream of building our own game for decades. In 2025, that dream finally became real with the release of Empire Builde
Bug Fixes, Feature Changes Video settings will now save and restore properly from game load to game load. Properly implemented Exclusive Fullscreen video. Prior versions of the game will be forced to update to the latest version. If Steam will not update, try logging out and back
NEW FEATURES Your track map is now reflected in the mini map so that you can tell where you have built to at a glance. Derailment events now more clearly display their requirements to you when the event is drawn. If you are inside the impacted area, it will tell you that you have
Update your game from Steam. Should happen automatically but if it is not, try logging out and in of Steam or restarting your Steam client. Patch notes published to our Discord as well: Matchmaking Improvements and Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where matchmaking could not be used more th
We're happy to announce that we have set a release date for Empire Builder: Europe, digital edition. November 20th @ noon EST Many thanks must go out to Darwin's Toys, Train Gamer's Association and our personal circle of friends for all their testing support. Without them and the
We're set to release this month. Final testing is in progress now and we believe we have the game in a place where it should be for general use. Stay tuned. We cannot wait to play online. Join our Discord for more information, the latest updates and to join players all over to pl
Update from all of us at Zombie Possum Games. Since our last update, we've been continuously testing the game to make sure that it lives up to the user experience that we want to have on release day. Chief among the reasons for the delay of the release was that network disconnect
While upgrading how we handle lobbies, invites and matchmaking, we added a few quality-of-life improvements to the game. - Events now show up on the mini-map. - Hovering over a demand or resource shows both the demand and the resource on the mini-map and the main map. - Added a t
After careful consideration—and a lot of time spent playtesting—we’ve made the decision to shift Empire Builder: Europe from a fixed release date to a “Coming Soon” status on Steam. During recent multiplayer testing, we uncovered some communication and synchronization issues that
Great progress over the past month towards polishing up the game for release. We've been playtesting internally and have ironed out a number of issues and added enhancements from the feedback we've received by our testers. Today, we published a gameplay trailer / cinematic and al