If you’ve not discovered Trainyard yet, it’s high time you got yourself to the App Store and spent a dollar on it. It’s one of those games that offers a great deal of entertainment for a very low price.
The concept is simple. Cute little trains chug along tracks you create. All you have to do is get them to their sheds.
It’s not a sim game, though. It’s a puzzle. The trains move in unison, and different colored locomotives can be combined into new colors as long as you get them merged at precisely the right point. New game concepts are introduced slowly, but there are a great many levels to complete.
After a while, you encounter some truly brain-bending challenges (150 of them) that combine all the skills you’ve accumulated to date. I’ve not got this engrossed in a game since I got my hands on Helsing’s Fire (which, incidentally, continues to be updated and provide many hours of fun).
If you don’t want to pay, Trainyard Express is free and has 60 puzzles, but no adverts.
Trainyard is currently riding high in the (UK) App Store Top 25. Recommended for puzzle fans.
