Train Conductor World in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ Great game, poorly-balanced progression

I really enjoy enjoy this game, it’s fun and actually very challenging on higher difficulties. But, that said, it is extremely difficult to progress in the game without buying rail packs. Because of the scarcity of new tracks, connecting to new cities is very difficult after the first few hours of playing. And special events that grant extra coins only occur a few times a day if you’re lucky. And because the coin limit to unlock a new track progressively increases, even those become unhelpful to speeding things up. Even once you get the track, there’s no guarantee you’ll be able to use it, because it’s completely random. Devs, there are 4 corner pieces, and only 1 vertical straight piece, and 1 horizontal straight piece. That means you’ll get twice as many corner pieces that are harder to use than straight pieces. True random is not fair in this kind of system, and straight pieces NEED to be more common. The rate you GET pieces should also be greater, just a coin cap on the new rails would be fine, or at least a way to get the specific rails you need that *isn’t* paying for it. That is, unless, you like this because people will buy packs more often because they get NOTHING USEABLE.

★★★★★ Great game overall

Ever since I bought the ad remover it’s now a real game now, unplayable without it. The progression is slow but reasonable and a lot of content to unlock. I love the track design game on the world map, I wish there is a way to rotate a piece though, like if you have 4 identical pieces you can transform them into 1 with rotated direction. Or better yet, you can combine pieces into fork tracks if you 2 sets of 4. The grinder system is a bit too random and you don’t feel like you are in control. Also I have a small complain about the star system, it’s cool and challenging and offers tons of replayability but it has absolutely no reward whatsoever, should gives me a crate of appropriate rarity upon finishing a level with full star, some levels are really hard and require many tries but no reward in the end feels like a bummer. All in all a great 5$ game that will kill lots of my time, the core game is very smooth and interesting, just need a bit tweaking on the reward system.

★★★★★ New version doesn’t allow cities to be disconnected

I don’t submit many reviews. I’m sure the game is still fun for new players. But for me, the developers changed the nature of the game so dramatically that it’s become a silly waste of time. I had every city/town connected using iron tracks (the middle quality offering) but the changes to the game over the past two updates (I believe) require iron (the highest quality track piece). To obtain steel pieces quickly, I’d like to trade in iron pieces that currently connect cities but do not deliver any cargo to the port. I have 10s of wasted pieces because I cannot disconnect a city from a port. So I’m left to plunk along after having played hours to earn as many iron and steel tiles as I have, well it’s disappointing to say the least. Oh, I did like the change made where you could exchange five identical tiles for that same track piece but at one level above (e.g. trade in five horizontal iron pieces for one horizontal steel piece) but why make the player go thru the ridiculous graphic of the tile machine churning out the new tile. It’s a waste of everyone’s time.

★★★★★ Expensive, if you want to finish the game

Don’t believe promises that eventually the randomization process will reward you with the tiles you need. I’ve been playing for months and I’m still waiting for my “bad luck” to change and be rewarded with a tile I need. The alternative is to buy expensive packs of track that have a lot of pieces you don’t need and one or two that you do. The game is fun, but at this point repetitive as I patiently wait to win or swap for those three pieces of alloy straight track I need to add one more city. Then it will likely be months before I’m “lucky” enough to randomly get the pieces I need to add the next city. One star for being fun but overly expensive. Not once have I ever received a tile I needed in a swap. Alloy horizontal tiles are something you must buy at outrageous prices to advance and even then you won’t be able to purchase enough to advance with a single package. This game is only about gouging you for needed pieces. I don’t buy games and expect to spend a fortune to advance. I’m guessing it will cost well over $100 just to add all the cities. The game is definitely not worth that kind of money.

★★★★★ I am sneaking in on the train station and operating them “ after hours” shhhhhhh

Every once a good while does a simple game attach attention and gain ground. I can stop playing these games and some days they are living headaches . But the continuum to create more business and complexity Is giving rise to a desire to charge on!!! I highly encourage to purchase the ad free ( 1 more chance ) option. It makes a lot of since .keep in mind that I don’t spend money on any tool unl as I know I might die I’m This last thing must be minitiined as a glitch. Many times I am try to press grap the track to get Lynda on board . Up on my Changing a train fom track 1 to 2) is probably the worse frustrantes. Te track I behh go king g fez ST so go foco constataci

★★★★★ Used to love this game…

This was one of my favorite games. When they changed the track to add alloy and made the way to make the most money to have “keys” to unlock different lines in the ports, it made it lose some of the fun. I had maxed out all the ports but I still played to try and get all alloy track. Now I have over 75 pieces of alloy track I can’t use. I need the track that has more than one direction. I wish I could turn in 5 alloy track to pick the one specific piece of alloy track I need. BUT the biggest issues right now are that I paired for AD free years ago and now every time I play I end up having to watch an ad. I click restore purchases and it says it did, however after a game or two an ad pops back up. It’s frustrating and makes me stop playing for a bit and I try again. ALSO right now the free daily track tile with Watch an ad isn’t working. And the watch an ad to undo a wreck isn’t working either.

★★★★★ Alright... mostly.

So the game does a few things right. It is engaging, each level (or city, if you will) adds some novel quirk. Beautifully drawn, (mostly) fluid gameplay, nice concept for getting more pieces of track to introduce new cities. So why the 2-star rating? They really overdo it with the advertising. Getting a “free” piece of track - a 30-second video. Fine, I get that. An “undo” - again, a video. Fine. But then at random points a video plays as well. Starting a level, opening track, whatever - every so often it just plays. Too much. Well, I hear you say, so pay up! Yeah, the no-ads option is $4.99. And sorry, but this is just not a $5 game. It’s a nice game, don’t get me wrong. But considering that they’re selling you track (and bonus “objectives” as well), it’s just not worth that much. I’d have paid 0.99 or probably even $1.99 in a heartbeat and enjoyed the game a lot more. But even then it isn’t worth $5. Especially being buggy - the app often applies my tap to the wrong train, which is both further from where I touched and which it made no sense to move. All in all, just not worth $5 - but there are enough ads to make clear that they *really* want you to pay up. Still a nice game. That I’m still playing it notwithstanding all of the above is something.