Last updated on June 4th, 2023 at 09:00 pm
Steam: Rails to Riches
Steam: Rails to Riches is one of the best $4.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Acram Digital Sp. z o.o., Steam: Rails to Riches is a Board game with a content rating of 4+.
It was released on 3rd November 2015 with the latest update 31st March 2021
Whether you are a fan of Board, Entertainment, or Family games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
132 people have rated 3.4.9
You can download the game Steam: Rails to Riches from APP STORE.
Description
The official version of one of the best board games – Steam: Rails to Riches.
AWARDS & HONORS
2010 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee
2010 Lys Passioné Winner
2010 Lys Passioné Finalist
2010 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee
2009 International Gamers Awards – General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee
2009 Golden Geek Best Gamers’ Board Game Nominee
Take control of a railway company, issue shares, build railroads, deliver goods along with an ever-changing network of tracks and stations, and make a profit to expand.
- Can you finance both the most extensive track network and the most powerful locomotives?
- Which routes will give You the best returns on their costs?
- Can you beat the opponents to the most profitable shipments?
- Will you make enough money to pay your investors?
You build the tracks, upgrade towns, improve your train, and grab the right goods to make the longest, most profitable deliveries. Score your deliveries and add to your income or victory points, balancing your need to invest against your quest to win the game.
The goal of the game is to score the most victory points and become the best railway company.
Features:
- official Steam: Rails to Riches game
- original artwork
- in-game interactive tutorial
- languages: English, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese Traditional
- optimized for smartphones and tablets
- play with AI, with friends or both
- 3 levels of difficulty AIs with individual strategies
- 3-5 player maps
- climate sounds and music matched to maps
- adaptable animation speed
- in-app official rules
- unique, original board game feel on Your device
- colorblind mode
- online multiplayer
Updated on 31st March 2021
Improved text boxes (chat, name, etc.)
Steam: Rails to Riches Reviews
We cannot progress in tutorial. We’ve now restarted it twice, but it requires us to perform an action that we cannot do. We also found a spelling error in the tutorial text. We want to like this game, but we still dont know how to play because of the broken tutorial.
Are you guys seriously pushing out an update when you have a sale so you can put the ‘Sale’ banner on your icons? Because that’s what it looks like.
You cant invite friends so you need to leave a game open for them to join. The turn notifications also dont work. We were very encouraged when the multiplayer was first rolled out but have struggled to complete any games as friends need to be messaged in another medium that it is their turn.
How do we get the app to let us take multiple turns moving goods in the move goods phase? It always ends the phase after we move one good instead of cycling through all the players turns repeatedly. Very annoying.
No good tutorial. No written tutorial of any worth.
This is one of those games you really have to pay attention while playing. We had to search for tips on the internet how to successfully win or be at least competitive against the lowest Computer players. The tutorial, as mentioned, is not very helpful.
This may be a decent game if you know how to play the board game. The tutorial however is broken and does not allow you to progress after a couple of turns.
The tutorial makes the game impossible to learn. We really dont understand how the game plays on our devices, so we never attempt it for very long. Its a very frustrating game.
Not much more to say that that.
The game doesn’t place a yellow good on Einhoven, then tells you to transport one yellow good to Njinmegen. It won’t let us progress past that. We really want to give this game a higher review, but the tutorial is a dumpster fire.
A good game, but the mechanics around dragging everything are just wrong. Everyone else let’s you get close, it’s sad that in a game mainly about dragging its so much work to do this here.
The game consistently crashes. No response from their "Help" link. The online manual seems more geared to the board game. Poor game play. Request for refund ignored. Why is this garbage in the App Store?
This is a well made game. There were problems at launch but the developer has fixed them. Strongly recommend. The game does online play well also (it lets you know when it is your turn and it is easy to invite others to play).
Decent game. But at $12 we think the add on maps cost too much. This whole game should be $5.
This game surprised us as to how good it is. As a fan of Carcassonne, Steam is like a distant cousin with trains and merchandise. We enjoy it so much we bought all the expansions when they went on sale. Good stuff!
Games is very complicated, and the tutorial was little help at all. When you first open the app, it takes 7-8 minutes to download "mandatory" maps before you get to see anything about the horribly complicated game.
One of our favorite board games ever turned into a wonderful app. There are a few bugs and still waiting on the online play but overall this is a must own.
We bought this sight unseen because we heard about it on a podcast called Ludology. This is a fun strategy game!
As a board game lover and someone who appreciates a good strategy game, this one rocks. If you like Ticket to Ride, Catan, or any of the all time greats, this is for you. Only complaint is a couple of bugs but nothing major and we want more maps as soon as possible. Download this game, take the time to understand the rules, and you will not regret it. Oh, and we never do reviews so that should tell you something.
Latest map, Northern England, will not allow user to complete Urbanization action. Cannot then continue. Also, feedback link won’t work either.
Works fine on iPhone 6 but probably best on iPads. As others pointed out, the tutorial has a bug and can’t be completed. We played 4 games but couldn’t finish the last one due to a bug (old graphics suddenly got loaded and we couldn’t complete the unloading of our train). Great game, well balanced, and good enough graphics.
When you go through the standard tutorial the tutorial stops working right after you upgrade your train to level 3, ship one good, and then put the points into the income track. Wallace is up next but she doesn’t do anything.
See title. Every other board game adaptation has online play, usually through game enter. Give us a live back-and-forth experience so we don’t have to hand our iPad back and forth and you’ll sell 3-5x more copies!
This ui design is outright awful. The tutorial dismisses tutorial help so fast that it’s often unreadable. Big, clumsy game controls & status displays take up so much of the screen real estate; at best, with visual information hidden, you can see about a quarter of the map at once … Still partially obscured by the remaining controls. There’s no way to zoom-out to view the whole map. It’s frequently buggy – critical legal actions/moves suddenly don’t work. Almost unplayable.
Strategic yet relaxing train game. Colorful graphics and nice background music. The additional map to purchase is cool. A definite for fans of Age of Steam or Railroad Tycoon.
This is a great version of the game and they did a wonderful job. The updated version takes care a lot of the flaws from the first.
We have never played the board game version of this game but we can tell the mechanics will transfer very easily. We got this app to practice for a Euro-League we joined recently and we can’t wait to put our practice to the test!
We haven’t played a train game since Euro-rail crayon game back ages ago. We have always enjoyed Railroad tycoon video game. This one interested us from Suz review on board game breakfast. Not familiar with the board game but we enjoyed this app.
Steam is one of our all-time favorite games. But: the iOS version has a couple flaws. The first is that track laying is fiddly. If you dont drag the track just right, the game complains and doesnt give you a chance to correct it. Second is that the AI is very disappointing.
Interface is horrible, a waste of time and money.
Devs made many promises of updates and content but instead took the money and ran. This game has been abandoned, sorry we bought the POS, and will never buy another game from these phonies.
Other reviews cover the issue, but why do we have to download a map as soon as we open the game? Aside from that, several frustrating issues. The initial loading screens take far too long. Multiple rules are implemented incorrectly, such as taking loans at the beginning of a turn (from AGE OF Steam, not Steam). A good effort, but misses the mark. Disappointing.
Love the game, and it shines on the iPad. Needs online multiplayer!
Continued "404 unable to connect to Internet" While connected…..
Issues corrected. Plays very well now. Highly recommend. old review Takes several hours to download resources for the game, and if your device goes to sleep in the process, you’re back to square one. Wait for an update before purchasing. Unplayable at the moment.
This loaded fine for us, including the map and the rules pdf, so apparently whatever issues they were having at launch have been resolved. The graphics look great and the UI is polished and intuitive. And (hooray!) they included a colorblind-friendly graphics setting, a huge improvement over the original cardboard game. It remains to be seen whether the AI plays well, and there are still a number of features waiting for a future release. But so far this seems to be a worthy addition to the IOS board game genre.
It took a while to download the maps the first night, but now the app works great. The app has the standard version of the game but not the basic version.
After they fixed some of the release problems, this game is awesome! A very good strategic railroad game. This is an excellent port of the board game.
We own the board game but have never played. After playing 3 games of this implementation, we’ll twist arms to play the board game! Really enjoying this version. Looking forward to playing others online and buying expansions. Plays very smoothly.
Game is unplayable. It attempts to download your initial map but gets an http404 error and then quits. Wherever they are storing their map is down. 1 star for crappy delivery and inability to play. It is our hope this is just temporary and will be resolved soon. Update. Next day, map downloaded in 3 seconds. No issues, no crashes. This app just had a very bad first day. Don’t let the first day reviews scare you. We changed our rating from 1 star to four. It is now working great.
First of all, the core experience is great. Good presentation and artwork, great gameplay with no bugs or glitches. There are a few things that could be improved though… The initial download takes a while, and you can’t exit the app while it takes place. Took an hour or so on LTE in North Atlanta. The app doesn’t even multitask on the iPhone, which is bonkers. But with the game saving your progress after every move it’s an annoyance, not a deal breaker. The game manual is a link to a PDF instead of built into the game. Tile placement can be a little bit finicky. In summary, if you really want this game, go ahead and buy it. If you’re not totally sure, waiting for the first major update is completely reasonable.
We were glad to see this game for the ipad, but we haven’t been able to play it as the maps take too long to download. An early glitch in distributing the game? We’ll update our review when we can play the game. Update 1: we were able to download the maps today, but could not get the tutorial downloaded. Will check back. Update 2: The game seems to be working now.
We love Wallace’s games, especially Steam and Age of Steam. This implementation is pretty slipshod, however. The game needs to download additional data after installation, but that only works on a solid Internet connection. If anything goes wrong it just crashes and is unplayable. Once it’s working it … Is very slipshod. The UI conventions are inconsistent, inexplicable, and unintuitive. We m familiar with the board game, but get confused constantly by the UI. There’s a lot of potential here but the developers need to put some real effort into user experience, especially given the price point ($10 with two maps).
Wish we could review the app but load times have been horrendous. Initial loading of maps took over an hour on high speed wifi. Tried to play tutorial and after 90 mins it was still loading. What’s going on?
Game doesn’t work on download; two thirds of it requires being downloaded. Which took an hour, because servers weren’t ready for people buying the game. Why not make it part of the initial iTunes download? Ok, so we have the maps, ready to play. Open the tutorial. "Loading" screen comes up. And stays up. No progress bar, nothing. Thirty minutes, still a loading screen. We’ve paid $7 for a "Loading" screen.
For $7 you can be the proud owner of a very dramatic picture of a train that says now loading under it, if however you wanted a game you should save your money.
We’ll revise this when we can use the tutorial. We loaded the maps but the tutorial sat there for 15 minutes. We shut down the app and reloaded it with the same result. We deleted the app and tried again with the same result. IPad 3 with the most recent iOS.
Downloads quickly. After selecting the appropriate language the App immediately begins to "download maps" and bombs with 404 "not connected to the Internet" error.
We’ve tried downloading the map 3 times, and every time it fails.