Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 09:39 am
Train Merger: Idle Rail Tycoon – Simulation Game Review
Train Merger: Idle Rail Tycoon is a Simulation/Entertainment/Strategy game from No Six Five EOOD, first launched in 15th August 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,764+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Train Merger: Idle Rail Tycoon Stand Out
Dive into the world of Train Merger and build your ultimate railway empire. Merge trains to unlock new models, expand your rail network, and amass a fortune. Whether you’re a casual player or a train enthusiast, you’ll love this idle game that combines relaxing gameplay with exciting tycoon-style management challenges.
Simple & Addictive Gameplay: Buy locomotives, merge trains to upgrade them, and manage your fleet to generate gold automatically. It’s easy to learn but offers strategic depth – fun for players of all ages. Watch your trains chug along and earn money even while you’re away!
60+ Authentic Trains: Unlock more than 60 train models inspired by real-life historic locomotives – from classic steam engines to modern high-speed trains. Train lovers will appreciate the attention to detail in this huge collection of engines!
Build a Railway Empire: Expand your train empire with stations and special structures. Upgrade your buildings to boost your profits and become a successful railroad tycoon. Smart investments will increase your idle earnings, even when you’re offline, so your business keeps growing.
Ultimate Challenge – The Golden Express: Work towards constructing the legendary Golden Express, a one-of-a-kind golden train to crown your empire and showcase your success. Can you conquer this final challenge and prove your status as the ultimate rail magnate?
Combos & Bonus Gold: Merge trains in quick succession to perform combo chains and earn huge bonus piles of gold. Use these rewards to unlock more train slots, invest in upgrades, and accelerate the growth of your empire.
Explore Diverse Landscapes: Send your trains across a variety of landscapes – deserts, forests, mountains, tropical islands, and even fun fantasy locations like Candy Land or Antarctica. Each region offers a new scenic backdrop for your expanding rail network.
Seasonal Events & Themes: Celebrate holidays in-game! Participate in special events for Halloween, Christmas, Easter, and more. Each event brings unique themed trains, festive decorations, and special rewards – collect exclusive train models available for a limited time.
Play Offline, Stress-Free: Keep earning idle rewards even when you’re offline. Your trains continue to haul in gold while you’re away, so your empire never stops growing. No internet connection needed – play anytime, anywhere, at your own pace.
Meet The Conductor: Get guidance from The Conductor, your personal mentor in Train Merger. He’s ready with tips, tricks, and encouragement to help you become a successful railroad entrepreneur and master every aspect of the game.
All aboard! Start your adventure today and become a railroad tycoon. Merge, build, and create your own rail legend in Train Merger: Idle Rail Tycoon. If you enjoy idle merge games or management simulators, this captivating train adventure is perfect for you. Hop on the train now and enjoy hours of fun while growing your empire!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Train Merger: Idle Rail Tycoon is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 31st October 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Updated game engine and fixed a security issue
- Reduced memory footprint
- Reduced download size
Download & Availability
Train Merger: Idle Rail Tycoon is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Train Merger: Idle Rail Tycoon on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Because we like the number 41 locomotive, and why cant google show the golden express design.
We have played this game and 60 is the max needs more trains.
So fun we enjoyed playing it what is the best game ever Im so addicted to it like we cant stop playing this game its so fun like we just cant stop playing this game its so fun we just started this game who won so late but still its the best game ever but you dont have to download it if you dont wanna.
We love this because you get to make trains.
We have outed so many trains. But trams were in the game.
Very good game, used to play when we were young and we loved trains, we just started playing again and we remember we used to have train level 15.
2 major flaws Ive noticed is that the button you push to spawn a new train, has pop up ads, forcing you to watch adds to continuous playing the game, and after every other add, the game will freeze.
Great game. Been playing for awhile. It is currently locked up after the last update download with only #1 engines on all the pads and none will move/merge. Id be great if they could fix this glitch so we can get back to merging. Dont want to lose data.
All of our trains except our highest level train are stuck at Level 1 and we cant even merge our trains, or cant even delete them, we can buy new trains but never get to see them at all. Fix this bug because it is really effecting us in this game we have been playing for so long badly.
Game is broken after the recent update.
When we Merge The Guy Never Lets us And we See A Combo But we Cant Do The Combo.
We have the game on another phone we played and made it up to 25 and your making us start over on our new phone we wont to play the same one we got to 25 y cant we.
With the masters update all our gold has disappeared and we are not earning any gold in game. This game is broken. Do not install.
The game is detailed and a great game we love it. If you would please keep making more games Ill be interested in trying it. From bugsy.
We would give zero stars just for the ads. They pop up all the time while in play and forces you to watch them. Forced ads causes delete.
….There are so many merge games out now. This is actually one of the worstand thats saying something.
The game is really fun and once you get used to it its awesome. We hope you read our review and get it.
Best game on our iPad it is called train merger.
Great game to kill time. Not too many ads we think (compared to some others Ive played). Only thing is once you get to level 35 train you cant go any higher. An update with more levels is needed in order for us to keep playing.
Need a different track tired of going in circles.
If you just want an amusing way to fill time while you're not doing much and like the idea of a virtual toy train set on your device, this is a great little game. Simple and colourful. There are 'a lot' of adverts, but not really more than we're used to with cute free games like this. Updates come reasonably regularly if you're patient. :) our only slight 'complaints' are it can eat battery a little (plenty of games chew up a LOT more), and it seems a small few users have found a way to cheat(?) on the leaderboard, but these aren't big issues for enjoying watching your choochoo chug around.
Upgrade your train it says. Then the base model train becomes more expensive so you actually get nowhere.
If you play this game you will watch ads every 15 seconds no matter what you click on, or at least thats what it feels like unless you pay for the ad remover for $.99. Sometimes, it will try to force you to watch an ad to give you something for free in game, however if you choose to not click that and try to click on something else you will still watch an add it will just be shorter. Other than ads its watching a train go around in circles and upgrading it, this game has a limited lifespan dont waste your time or money.
Every thing you click has a ad. This game is garbage. Im not paying 99 cents to remove ads. Game wouldnt be worth it anyway.
We didnt realize that we were stuck at level 25 because there are no other levels. Why have trains above level 25 in the game play wont let you get that far? We are trying to be patient but its getting boring very quickly since we cant progress the game any further. Truly hope that the next update has more levels and not more trains we cant even get to.
Love the game so much. Needs a prestige option to get x2 or x3 coins on trains. More themes and a bigger map. A chance to make items appear more.
We cant move up even though the higher levels are offered. They just say coming soon.
The only thing Ive actually seen it do is remove the button changing to green to grant you a free upgrade/train. The income double and train upgrade/free train still show up but now you have to go to the train menu to do it, and theres still ads. Ironically purchasing no ads, just made the game worse. One would think no ads would mean one could engage those things sans ads, which is why we clicked the purchase option.
Great game, simple to figure out and fun to play for all ages. Enjoy the many different types of trains. Would like to see an update soon to be able to get past level 20. We have 10 level 20 train on track……….waiting.
Great way to kill time! Just Maxed out all the trains we could… Wish there were more.
At the end of the game we guess, cant go any farther.
Ive reach the level 20 train and have a full stock of trains and topped out on money Need more levels.
Doesnt get updated enough for it to continuously be enjoyable. You hit the end stage of 20 and thats it.
After playing this for awhile, it gets boring…like every merger game. It only has 20 levels. So, once you get 10 cars of level 20….you can do nothing else. But, the game does have a cute factor, and is like any other merger game…but with trains.
Its like having a train set in your pocket. We hope they come out with more options soon.
We cant make anymore trains because their all at 20 you need more trains in the game so people can keep playing.
This game was fun at first, however you seem to stop at lvl 20, by stopping at lvl 20, to buy anything higher than lvl 14 car, you need to combining instead of just being able to buy it straight. It says lvl 21,22,23,24 to unlock, but still cant unlock it. Stuck on LvL 20, dont know what else to do.
3 days after release….Im not sure what the goal is as there are ZERO instructions yet. Merging the engines is obvious but no idea how to get cars. Trial and error and watching a video helped. Switching tracks is not quite as easy as it should be and needs tweaked for ipad at least as we have given up trying to switch tracks. The description said something about weather or changing conditions but we havent seen any of that. Tons of ads, but that is to be expected especially just after release. The part that is bad is that many times it is the same ad over and over. We think this has a lot of promise for train fans and could be a money maker if done correctly.
There are way to many ads. We cannot click anything with out an ad.
You have 24 train levels and you need to tap 2 ones to make a two and two twos to make a three, and so on. How many taps to combine two 23s to make a 24? TOO MANY!! Plus the switches have a terrible touch interface. Simply its called…..PASSS.
Fun but several glitches and once you get to level 20 it wont let you go any further.
For every minute of play you have to watch 15 secs of ads.
Addictive game to pass the time. So addictive that we paid to remove the ads. After 20 minutes of ad free play, ads returned. Very frustrated.
If you like watching ads this is the game for you.
You have to watch an ad just to open it or buy a new train, add if fine but not every time you tap the screen.
Even after paying .99 the ads dont stop. You have to buy trains to advance. Even after the .99 to stop ads, you have to watch an ad to buy a train.
It's difficult to switch the points to control where the trains go; the progression gets very tedious around the seventh train. Not many ads though, although that number may increase.
You can't play more than 30 sec without needing to click on some ad.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.5.4
- Size: 163.33 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: BG, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: No Six Five EOOD
Last updated: 31st October 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Entertainment | Developer: No Six Five EOOD