# Railroad Ink Challenge — user reviews > 125 indexed App Store user reviews of Railroad Ink Challenge by Horrible Guild, rated 4.30/5 from 197 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/railroad-ink-challenge/id1549914827/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/railroad-ink-challenge/id1549914827.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 136 · 4★ 24 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 16 ## What do users think of Railroad Ink Challenge? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful graphics and animations - 🎮 Engaging and addictive gameplay - 📱 Intuitive user interface during play - ⚡ Quick games perfect for short breaks - 🏆 Daily challenge feature - 🌍 Multiple language support - 💰 Fair pricing with no ads - 🎯 Faithful adaptation of board game - 🤝 Asynchronous multiplayer gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes - 🔋 Excessive battery consumption - 🌐 Server connectivity issues - ❌ Resume game feature broken - 🔐 Apple ID login problems - 📱 iPad orientation and scaling issues - 🔥 Device overheating during play - ⚠️ Inconsistent scoring calculations - 🚫 Missing base game content (rivers/lakes) **Commonly reported bugs** - Resume game feature freezes app - Apple ID login loop and authentication errors - App crashes during gameplay and tutorial - Game locks up after iOS updates - Crashes on older devices (iPad Mini 2) - Desert expansion white screen on purchase - In-app purchase restoration not working - Server connection errors during scoring - Game Center account sync issues - Daily Challenge timeout and crashes - Scoring not saved to server - Exit scoring bug deletes game from history - Friend list navigation broken - Mountains challenge unplayable - Tutorial freezes at first dice placement - Crashes when using too many factories - Offline game results interfere with leaderboard - Password recovery impossible on iPad **Most requested features** - Local pass-and-play multiplayer mode - All expansion dice sets (Rivers, Lakes, Future, Engineers, Lava, Meteor) - Optional tile placement mechanic - Personal score history and ranking - Larger maps with more turns - Offline play without server dependency - Timer option for rounds - Randomized special square placement - View opponent boards after game completion - Better expansion rules reference in-game - Russian language support ## Newest reviews (18 of 125) ### 2/5 — Used to love it but it will not run anymore *2026-06-27* I used to love this game, but lately it has been freezing and crashing every time I start a new game. Very disappointing as the game is addicting and fun. I have tried re installing the app on my phone but that doesn’t fix the issue. Hopefully soon it will Be fixed. ### 3/5 — Desperately needs bug fixes *2026-06-10* Love this game, used to play it daily, but as of a few weeks ago it crashes mid game every few games so you lose your progress. Just fix it team, I want to buy the upgrades but won’t until it’s fixed ### 2/5 — Resume games? *2026-02-27, version 3.4.2* The resume game feature is faulty. It never works. It freezes the app. Please fix this. And add more expansion dice!!’ ### 2/5 — Stop asking for my apple id login *2026-02-26, version 3.4.2* Game constantly asks for my apple id login on startup, and then tells me it's wrong (it's not). Especially weird since I'm already logged into games center with my apple ID ### 2/5 — Was really nice implementation, now it locks up after iOS update *2026-02-01* The Good: Nice implementation of the board game which is one of my favorites, when it works. The Bad: Bummed no more expansions have been developed. Also, The ‘restart a game from where you left’ feature never worked. Would usually lock up the app and need a restart. Not a huge deal because the game is so quick to play. The Ugly: Now with latest iOS updates, app locks up in the middle of game play constantly making this basically unplayable. ### 3/5 — Tolles Spiel aber… *2026-01-24* Das Spiel an sich ist super und macht mega Spaß! Ich finde super, dass man sich die Modi aussuchen kann und auch die Erweiterungen sehen gut aus. Tolles Design und generell sehr ansprechend. Komischerweise muss ich mich aber bei jedem Neustart der App drei mal! in meinem Apple Account anmelden? Das ist mittlerweile ziemlich nervig. In letzter Zeit stürzt die App bei mir auch zusätzlich noch regelmäßig ab bzw. bleibt hängen, sodass ich teilweise nichtmal durch ein Spiel komme. Beide Probleme in Kombination sind entsprechend noch doofer, sehr schade! Ich hoffe sehr, dass sich das lösen lässt damit ich auch die Erweiterungen ausprobieren kann! ### 4/5 — Would be 5 stars except no rivers or lakes *2025-10-14, version 3.2.7* Excellent animations and beautiful art brings the physical game to life. But how could there be no option for river or lake dice?? ### 4/5 — super zwischendurch spiel und auf deutsch! *2025-02-20* wo bleiben die weiteren erweiterungen? schade dass es nur zwei erweiterungen gibt. spiele das spiel gerne! das prinzip ist toll. man würfelt 4 würfel die straßen oder schienen zeigen und diese platziert man auf einem plan. das macht man 7 runden. danach wird abgerechnet. es gibt noch viele zusätze um bonuspunkte zu sammeln und es gibt auch spezialwürfel. ich kenne das brettspiel nicht. habe es es zwar mal gesehen aber noch nicht gekauft. jetzt kann man es auch einzeln spielen. das toturial ist leicht verständlich und man kommt gut ins spiel rein. freu mich schon auf die erweiterungen die es geben soll. das spiel ist nicht nur in englisch. es hat viele sprachen und auch DEUTSCH. das ist sehr gut. schade dass es nicht angezeigt wird obwohl es in vielen sprachen zur verfügung steht. ganz klar dass das spiel vielen gefallen wird! leider fehlt pass and play au einem gerät. deswegen ein punkt abzug… ### 4/5 — Great game but UX clunky and bugs *2025-01-26* It’s truly a really good game, animations are amazing but overall UX is terrible — you’re really gotta be using this app for a while to know how to navigate because it’s the least intuitive thing, it’s definitely overwhelmed. Found some bugs which are really annoying: 1. if you play with friends, and go to view their board after game (why can’t i do this without leaving the game that just finished?), you click on “View Bord”, then somehow it prompts you to board and “Start” play button and after you click it, this game gets unintentionally deleted from your history. 2. if you open friends list from “my challenges” from one of your games, and go to their profile and click X to click it, you cannot quit the friend list view afterwards because its X just gets broken 3. not a bug but common sense question — how am i supposed to see how my friends did on Daily Challenge without clicking through all pages from ranking? It should be the most essential feature, I don’t care about global ranking as much as about my friends’ scores. Nevertheless, great game but still some room for improvement. ### 4/5 — Rilassante *2025-01-05, version 3.2.5* Gioco stimolante e rilassante al tempo stesso. Alcuni bug nelle piattaforme ed istruzioni delle estensioni non disponibili ### 3/5 — App gradevole ma imperfetta *2024-12-28, version 3.2.5* Trasposizione fedele del gioco da tavolo. Unica pecca: le sfide che prevedono la presenza delle montagne non sono giocabili. ### 3/5 — Resume game does not work *2024-12-13, version 3.2.4* Gameplay is fun and engaging but the resume game feature just freezes the app. Also wish there were more expansions to play. ### 3/5 — Please, please make placing of tiles optional. *2024-11-09* I really like this game. And after the updates everything is working just fine. I have already bought all the in-app purchases. No regrets there. But please, please make the placing of tiles optional. It’s very frustrating to get a bad roll, and then be forced to use it. It’s like a double whammy. I should be able to end a turn with any tiles that I don’t want remaining to the side. Those tiles would then be discarded. And that would make sense logically. If I were the president of a railroad company, I would certainly have the power to say, “No thanks. I don’t want that kind of rail pattern.” **Developer response:** Hello, apologies for the long wait for the fixes! With the latest update (3.1.9), all issues should have been solved. Please install the latest version of the app, and feel free to share a positive rating if you find it improved since the last time you played. It would be much appreciated! ### 2/5 — Latest update fixed nothing *2024-10-14* Sorry guys, the latest update didn’t fix the issue with the in-app purchase for Desert not working at all. It just goes to a white screen with a death spiral in the center. Neither restore nor purchase button do the trick. **Developer response:** Hello, We apologize for the inconvenience. We conducted multiple tests on our devices and we were sure it restored correctly. Please reach us at customercare.digital@horribleguild.com so we can look into this in more detail. ### 4/5 — iap restore is still glitchy *2024-10-11* bought an expansion, it's visible in the app store, but the game doesn't see that. restore just does nothing, clicking buying just hangs with loading animation. last two updates supposed to fix that, but alas. **Developer response:** Hello, We apologize for the inconvenience. We conducted multiple tests on our devices and we were sure it restored correctly. Please reach us at customercare.digital@horribleguild.com so we can look into this in more detail. ### 2/5 — Unable to recover game *2024-09-17, version 3.2.0* I’ve been playing for months, tried to play yesterday and my Game Center account no longer worked. Had to log in with my email which reset my history. Not sure I want to play anymore. ### 3/5 — Would be great if it worked *2024-09-15* Unfortunately the Desert expansion we purchased don’t run at all, so it’s wasted money. Nice game otherwise. I only wish there were an option to set a timer for every round. Like say, 5 minutes max per round. ### 2/5 — No Multiplayer *2024-07-30* No local multiplayer to play against others. Downloaded to play on holiday. Refunded. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — For some reason i have to log in 3 times every time i open the app *2026-05-31* why? ### 1/5 — Keeps freezing *2025-12-24, version 3.4.2* I would like to play this game but during the dice play on the first turn it freezes and the app needs to be forced quit. Hope the devs can fix this problem ### 1/5 — Missing Content *2025-04-09, version 3.2.7* Without the base game content of Rivers and Lakes it feels pretty bad to pay for the app as someone who owns the physical game. Developers are terribly unresponsive as well. ### 1/5 — Forced landscape *2024-10-12, version 3.2.1* Latest update forces landscape and stretches it out! Looks awful and won’t go to portrait mode. ### 1/5 — No funciona *2023-06-09, version 3.1.1* Después de la última actualización, se puede entrar en la cuenta, lo que no se puede es jugar con él no se accede al juego. ### 1/5 — Impossible to connect *2023-05-28* I just installed it but the server has always « issue » impossible to connect and therefore to play… **Developer response:** Hello, apologies for the long wait for the fixes! With the latest update (3.1.9), all issues should have been solved. Please install the latest version of the app, and feel free to share a positive rating if you find it improved since the last time you played. It would be much appreciated! ### 1/5 — Online Services Haven’t Worked for Months *2023-04-08* The online services went down last fall (September 2022) and haven’t worked since. Horrible Guild continue to insist they are working on it, and that they will be back up “soon.” But they give no ETA. Additionally, they had warning long before their previous host stopped their service and don’t seem to have done anything to prepare for the transition in advance to prevent this issue. Until the server is back up (if it ever happens) go play this for free on BGA and don’t bother with this app. **Developer response:** Hello, apologies for the long wait for the fixes! With the latest update (3.1.9), all issues should have been solved. Please install the latest version of the app, and feel free to share a positive rating if you find it improved since the last time you played. It would be much appreciated! ### 1/5 — Clearly not supported *2023-03-05* This would be an amazing app if it was properly supported. You get a message from last year saying the current platform isn’t working and all of the online features (most of the app from what I can see) are defunct. Massive shame because I love the game so much and the actual gameplay is excellent. **Developer response:** Hello, apologies for the long wait for the fixes! With the latest update (3.1.9), all issues should have been solved. Please install the latest version of the app, and feel free to share a positive rating if you find it improved since the last time you played. It would be much appreciated! ### 1/5 — Sin servidores *2023-02-16, version 3.0.4* Llevan sin servidores de Octubre 2022 y aun nada…. Parece que no les preocupa el tema. ### 1/5 — Don’t buy it *2023-01-13, version 3.0.4* Not worth buying. The online features do not currently work at all and they have no ETA for when they will work. Is not worth the money until the get the app fixed! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Große Empfehlung *2026-06-23* Ich liebe dieses Spiel! Es ist sehr entspannend und trotzdem anspruchsvoll. Je nachdem welche Erweiterung oder welche Challenges man sich vor nimmt kann man das Stresslevel beliebig erhöhen oder senken. Ich hoffe sehr es werden bald die anderen Erweiterungen auch noch umgesetzt! Es ist jetzt schon ein Dauerbrenner zum abschalten und runter kommen, für zwischendurch oder um eine Zugfahrt angenehmer zu gestalten;-). Darum nochmals: Bitte bringt bald die anderen Erweiterungen heraus!! Danke!!! ### 5/5 — Amazing Game! *2025-08-25, version 3.2.7* Perfect game to start your day. I’d only wish the other two sets of expansions included in the original boxes of Challenge (Green and Yellow) were also available through an iAP. ### 5/5 — Alles richtig gemacht! *2025-04-10* Ich besitze hunderte Spiele für das Ipad. Das hier ist ganz sicher eines der besten. Unglaublich viel Spielspass für kleines Geld. Gerne noch mehr Erweiterung, nur so, sind so hübsch. ### 5/5 — Super Spiel *2025-02-15* Ich besitze RailRoadInk analog und bin großer Fan des Spieles. Daher finde ich die App ideal für kurze Partien zwischendurch oder auf Reisen. Ich habe mir noch zusätzlich beide Erweiterungen gekauft, bin allerdings neugierig, ob noch weitere folgen werden. Immerhin gibt es noch so viele Möglichkeiten. ### 5/5 — Fun game, ipad implementation is iffy *2024-11-30, version 3.2.4* It gets compressed on ipad and forced into horizontal orientation. ### 5/5 — Wonderful puzzle /game *2024-08-05* There is no other game that I return to as much as this one. ### 5/5 — Fantastic, but want more *2024-06-26* This is a brilliant implementation of the tabletop game… really hope more expansions will be added (rivers, lakes, future, engineers… etc), and more game modes (larger maps with more turns, maybe?) ### 5/5 — Desert Expansion available again *2024-05-10* The 3.1.9 update appears to have fixed the problem wherein the Desert Expansion could not be restored. I’m changing my rating back to my original 5 stars. Thank you. **Developer response:** Hello, sorry for the long wait! To solve the expansion purchase issue, please check the FAQ on our Digital Customer Care page: https://horribleguild.com/us/customer-care-digital-apps/ Also, with update 3.1.9 all problems should have been solved. Please install the latest version, and feel free to share a positive rating if you find it improved! ### 5/5 — (Monatelang keine Tageschallenge) jetzt wieder alles top! *2024-04-25* Die Tageschallenges sind zurück, und horrible guild hat mich darüber sogar benachrichtigt 👍 (Und leider hat sich das mit den neusten Updates immer noch nicht geändert - ich bin sehr enttäuscht… denn ich nutze die App im wesentlichen für die Tageschallenges.) **Developer response:** Hello, apologies for the long wait for the fixes! With the latest update (3.1.9), all issues should have been solved. Please install the latest version of the app, and feel free to share a positive rating if you find it improved since the last time you played. It would be much appreciated! ### 5/5 — Family Sharing not working *2023-11-24* Even thought the developer claimed on twitter DMs that family sharing is enabled (as it suggests on the app store listing as well). Family sharing is not working. Stay clear of the game and the developer. **Developer response:** Hello, apologies for the long wait for the fixes! With the latest update (3.1.9), all issues should have been solved. Please install the latest version of the app, and feel free to share a positive rating if you find it improved since the last time you played. It would be much appreciated! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*