This game is excellent! I always come back to it when I'm bored and it never fails to entertain. The puzzle side of it is fun, fresh, and exciting while the game itself is original and clever. The entire game is immersive from the flashy colors to the high-pitched sounds. I love the relief after completing a puzzle I've probably put hours into. (A little trial and error can do the trick.) I would definitely get this game! I'm surprised there are this many levels!
The game starts off nice and easy, and the tutorial is simple and really does a great job of making understanding the game easy. The game increases the difficulty level slowly but doesn't leave you board. More challenging levels are fun to play and I find the game to be encouraging cause you don't have a limit on time or how much track you can use. I would love to see a real life backgrounds rather than just a black grid, and some more realistic looking trains. Five stars, great game. And it's free!
I don't usually write a review, but, since I lost my iPod a year a go, and bought a new one few weeks ago; when I installed my lost iTouch's backup I realize that I used to play this game a lot, but got stuck in one puzzle. I wasted hours triying to unsolved it until yesterday... A couple of friends and I traveled to Mexicali, and before we started to leave the city to come back, the car started to heat up, we couldn't find a solution, and we where running out of hope to find a place opened where we could fix this trouble. A friend went to look for a garage; he came back half an hour with good news: he found a place that was closing and the owner offered to make us the favor. To kill the time I started to play Trainyard EX, even tho I new I wasn't going to find the solution for this puzzle that was buzzing me for days... Gess what. I solved the puzzle the first try! I couldn't believe it. I told my frien that everything was going to be OK, that I got a feeling. Ant that feeling was right! It may be a coincidence, but I feel like not.
The car was fixed and we returned to Tj in time. It was a good trip, tho.
This is the perfect puzzle game. It starts out simple enough but gets progressively harder with each level without holding you back when you get stuck on a single level. I have found myself stuck on a puzzle only to find inspiration to the solution in the middle of class, or while doing laundry, and even while sleeping. This game makes you think while your playing and even when your not. I LOVE this game
This game is a lot of fun because it does require one to work out the various puzzles and have to think about the options that will lead to success. It is a game that I like to play for a while, and then come back to it a bit later and look at things freshly again. Sometimes the answers are not so obvious, but after you look at various options you can see how to solve the puzzles. It helps to take the tutorial several times so one can understand exactly how it works.
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. :-)
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.
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!!!
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.
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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