Railbound

Name: Railbound
Price: 4.99 USD
Rating: 4.8 (115 reviews)
Author: Afterburn Lukasz Spierewka

trains + rails + puzzle

$4.99 · Designed for iPad

115 Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

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Ages

4+
Years
Category

Puzzle
Developer

Afterburn Lukasz Spierewka
Language

EN
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Size

240.2
MB

Railbound is a comfy track-bending puzzle game about a pair of dogs on a train journey around the world. Connect and sever railways across different landscapes and help everyone reach their homes. Solve over 240 clever puzzles ranging from gentle slopes to twisted passageways. BEND RAILS TO MAKE THE TRAIN GO ‘CHOO-CHOO' Place, remove and reroute connections so that carriages safely connect to the locomotive. But be careful and don’t make them run into each other! 240+ PUZZLES TO COMPLETE Our main levels will take you through a variety of locations at a relaxed pace. Forks along the road will lead you to spicy brainteasers that’ll please even the most demanding players! TRAIN-INSPIRED MECHANICS Use tunnels to cover vast distances in an instant. Delay trains using well-timed railway barriers. Switch tracks to reroute cars in different directions. Pick up cute friends on the way and encounter even more challenges on your journey! ART AND MUSIC FULL OF WHOLESOME VIBES Across the game’s world enjoy our comic-book-inspired visuals and a relaxing original soundtrack by the team behind Golf Peaks and inbento.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

115 Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Railbound’s tough puzzles are brilliantly focused. You’re given only a handful of rail tiles to guide train cars to the correct destinations in the correct order, and yet even with limited options the potential solutions feel limitless. Do you lay track so Car 4 goes through a tunnel and waits at a crossing gate for Cars 2 and 3 to pass? Do you create loops to delay Car 2? Do you ignore the crossing gate altogether? Few games make success feel like it’s always just within reach, even when it isn’t. A helpful hint system keeps the difficulty from going completely off the rails.

Editors’ Choice

Railbound’s tough puzzles are brilliantly focused. You’re given only a handful of rail tiles to guide train cars to the correct destinations in the correct order, and yet even with limited options the potential solutions feel limitless. Do you lay track so Car 4 goes through a tunnel and waits at a crossing gate for Cars 2 and 3 to pass? Do you create loops to delay Car 2? Do you ignore the crossing gate altogether? Few games make success feel like it’s always just within reach, even when it isn’t. A helpful hint system keeps the difficulty from going completely off the rails.
Thank you for a good game and proper colorblind support
03/25/2023

JVRinDC
This is a great puzzle game with a healthy level of challenge. Enough to keep me engaged, thinking, and curious as to the next level, but challenging enough that I didn’t simply walk through every level. Most impressively, they actually got the colorblind support pretty spot on: it’s something that effects me and I’m picky about because for me it make a difference in how solvable or enjoyable a game is. In this day and age every game app developer should know how to do it right. These developers got it right. Thank you.

Developer Response
Thank you so much for your kind words and appreciation! We're happy to hear you enjoyed Railbound and our colorblind system was useful for you!
Thank you for a good game and proper colorblind support
03/25/2023

JVRinDC

This is a great puzzle game with a healthy level of challenge. Enough to keep me engaged, thinking, and curious as to the next level, but challenging enough that I didn’t simply walk through every level. Most impressively, they actually got the colorblind support pretty spot on: it’s something that effects me and I’m picky about because for me it make a difference in how solvable or enjoyable a game is. In this day and age every game app developer should know how to do it right. These developers got it right. Thank you.
Developer Response 04/07/2023
Thank you so much for your kind words and appreciation! We're happy to hear you enjoyed Railbound and our colorblind system was useful for you!
Stunning Mobile Puzzler
12/25/2022

rjh19820813rjh
I historically gravitate toward puzzlers on mobile and I’m so glad I stumbled on this one. It may be one of the best I’ve ever played. Simple yet challenging and totally fun. I’m on world 4 after playing for one day. Each world has a new, different mechanic that keeps it interesting. The side challenges are quite difficult. I’ve only needed hints on two of them so far, which was after 15 min of trying each one. By the way, the hint system is perfect. The fact that hints can be activated is wonderful, which is why this game is leaps and bounds better than Cosmic Express. Plus getting a hint doesn’t really give the board away. It’s still challenging. Very well done Developer! Edit: I wrote this a little too soon. By world 5, similar to Cosmic Express, some levels get extremely difficult. The fun, quick puzzles turn into grinds of trial and error with large boards of ten+ pieces… guessing and checking with loops, passengers and train car timing. In several extra levels, I found myself googling the final solution, and realize I never would have gotten it. Most levels are quick, satisfying brain teasers. The large, complex ones aren’t so fun.

Developer Response
Thank you for your honest and detailed review! 🙂 If you ever find yourself stuck, you can always contact us at railbound@afterburn.games or on our Discord server (https://discord.gg/afterburn) for any guidance.
Stunning Mobile Puzzler
12/25/2022

rjh19820813rjh

I historically gravitate toward puzzlers on mobile and I’m so glad I stumbled on this one. It may be one of the best I’ve ever played. Simple yet challenging and totally fun. I’m on world 4 after playing for one day. Each world has a new, different mechanic that keeps it interesting. The side challenges are quite difficult. I’ve only needed hints on two of them so far, which was after 15 min of trying each one. By the way, the hint system is perfect. The fact that hints can be activated is wonderful, which is why this game is leaps and bounds better than Cosmic Express. Plus getting a hint doesn’t really give the board away. It’s still challenging. Very well done Developer! Edit: I wrote this a little too soon. By world 5, similar to Cosmic Express, some levels get extremely difficult. The fun, quick puzzles turn into grinds of trial and error with large boards of ten+ pieces… guessing and checking with loops, passengers and train car timing. In several extra levels, I found myself googling the final solution, and realize I never would have gotten it. Most levels are quick, satisfying brain teasers. The large, complex ones aren’t so fun.
Developer Response 03/02/2023
Thank you for your honest and detailed review! 🙂 If you ever find yourself stuck, you can always contact us at railbound@afterburn.games or on our Discord server (https://discord.gg/afterburn) for any guidance.
PLEASE add a sandbox!
12/07/2022

AskubG
Great game! Starts off very easy but the side missions are great. The main levels are starting to get very clever and tricky, too. Controls are pretty amazing, I rarely ever tap the wrong thing. It really works as I intend.My 6 year old loves trains and loves the style of this game but he can only play the first few levels. There’s a serious lack of good train games on the App Store but he would LOVE it if he could just place tiles and make them go. I don’t know what it would take to implement that (maybe even a separate app?) but that would be amazing!

Developer Response
Hi! Thank you so much for your encouraging words! 😄 Following a recent update, Railbound does have a sandbox mode which you can find at the end of the Level Select screen (it’s World “#”). If you’d like to access it early you can toggle the option to Unlock All Levels in Settings > Accessibility.
PLEASE add a sandbox!
12/07/2022

AskubG

Great game! Starts off very easy but the side missions are great. The main levels are starting to get very clever and tricky, too. Controls are pretty amazing, I rarely ever tap the wrong thing. It really works as I intend.My 6 year old loves trains and loves the style of this game but he can only play the first few levels. There’s a serious lack of good train games on the App Store but he would LOVE it if he could just place tiles and make them go. I don’t know what it would take to implement that (maybe even a separate app?) but that would be amazing!
Developer Response 03/02/2023
Hi! Thank you so much for your encouraging words! 😄 Following a recent update, Railbound does have a sandbox mode which you can find at the end of the Level Select screen (it’s World “#”). If you’d like to access it early you can toggle the option to Unlock All Levels in Settings > Accessibility.

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Version 3.08

12/03/2024

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