Trainyard Express User Reviews

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Excellent logic game!

With just a few simple rules governing the trains' movement and colors, Trainyard is an ingenious collection of puzzles which will tax your brain. A well-written tutorial gets you started and the initial puzzles ease you into the game, where the real challenges await. There's no time limit or need for quick reflexes, it's just you versus the puzzle.

One nice aspect is that you can control the "playback" speed of the trains in the puzzle, so that when things don't work out, you can carefully analyze the board and adjust accordingly.

Lastly, this game has plenty of challenges for free, as opposed to a teaser game with limited functions. It makes you WANT to purchase the paid version voluntarily, it's that good. :-)
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Fun game

I enjoy figuring out how to set up the tracks to solve a puzzle then making them efficient and ascetically pleasing.

Great puzzle game, a must play to get it

This is a great solo puzzle game. It's fun and easy to build, erase, and rebuild tracks to solve the puzzles, with a really lovely UI to make it fun and easy to experiment. As a result, you can iterate through a solution and not feel frustrated, just hooked on solving it.

The interspersed tutorials are a UX delight: worth emulating in any software.

While it may not be as flashy as some, this is a perfectly polished, thoughtful game on par with other non-traditional puzzlers like zen bound.
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Recommended

I find this game both challenging and addictive. The levels increase in difficulty at a good pace. It's also oddly satisfying when you finally complete one of the harder levels.

Too Much Fun!!

Okay, I must admit was getting a bit annoyed by the constant pop-up asking me to review this app. I wasn't annoyed because the app has any flaws; but because I was having too much fun to stop long enough to write a review. Then I decided that was silly, I want to encourage these developers to do more apps like this. The game is fun; challenging; pretty and stimulating. Nice job!!!
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Stands above other puzzle games

They really got this one right. Just challenging enough to be fun and interesting without getting frustrating. Some of the puzzles are very challenging but its not like you're just trying to discover some "trick" to solve them- really makes you think. Only complaint: I finished the whole game in a couple of hours & was left wanting more. If there's a pay version with a lot more levels, I will DEFINITELY buy it. Nice work.
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Perfect sit down thinker.

Wonderfully challenging without getting frustrating at any point. My only issue now is how to get those last few achievements...

Awesome

Great puzzles to get your brain working. Hard but not too hard, satisfying when you work each one out. More games like this please.

Elegant but dasterdly tricky puzzle

The puzzles start simple enough, but build up to brain-twisters that either make you think you are a genius for solving them so quickly, or an idjiot for not being able to solve what looks like a simple problem. I am pretty sure I will be buying the paid version, I've already gotten 2-3 hours of play from this version, and still have not run out of puzzles.

For an indie game, this has nice sound effects, and pleasing graphics. Well done!

I like the whole Canadian province thing too.

My one suggestion is that I find I am trying to draw improvements on the board and need to go click on the "start again" button. Is that extra step needed? Why not slide right back into drawing mode when the trains finish and you don't solve it?
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A fun game of trains, colors, and timing

Simple in principle, anazingly complex in execution as you get further into it, Trainyard Express rewards experimentation as you try to time the trains and direct them to their stops. It's also extremely addictive - I just started playing it about two days ago and I'm thoroughly hooked. Best of all, this version is free - but I'll be giving serious thought to the paid version, because this game is awesome enough for me to want to spend money on it.
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