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About Rule the Rail!

Rule the Rail! is a single player city builder game. It was developed by Redbrick Studios Ltd and was released on February 17, 2020. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Fully functional model railway building game on your screen. Create and paint the landscape, place the tracks engines and wagons. Start the trains and create control sequences to direct them to the right tracks. Place houses, industrial buildings, lamp posts, plants, and all the little details to finish your model railroad on the screen.

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73%Audience ScoreBased on 15 reviews
graphics1 negative mentions

  • Allows creation of realistic and detailed model railway layouts with many locomotives, buildings, and decorations.
  • Easy to build layouts and connect tracks, with a helpful tutorial and a supportive online community providing additional content.
  • Provides a nostalgic and enjoyable experience for railway fans and those who like building virtual model railways.
  • Outdated interface and controls that are clunky, with very small icons and poor usability on modern high-resolution screens.
  • Frequent crashes and bugs in the Steam version, with no recent updates or developer support to fix issues.
  • Limited and somewhat boring building designs and track options, with no undo function and some awkward controls for camera and object movement.
  • graphics

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users criticize the graphics for lacking proper support for modern screen resolutions, resulting in a graphical user interface that does not scale correctly and negatively impacts the visual experience.

    • “The game is not made for modern screen resolutions, as the graphical user interface does not scale properly with different screen sizes.”
  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is considered tedious and user-unfriendly, with small icons and a cumbersome setup process that detracts from the overall experience.

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Rule the Rail! is a city builder game. Common tags for Rule the Rail! include transportation, building and trains.

Rule the Rail! is available on PC and Windows.

Rule the Rail! was released on February 17, 2020.

Rule the Rail! was developed by Redbrick Studios Ltd.

Rule the Rail! has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players disliked Rule the Rail! for its graphics.

Rule the Rail! is a single player game.

Similar games include Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, Sid Meier's Railroads!, Race Track Builder, Trainz Simulator 12, Rolling Line and others.