# Sid Meier’s Railroads! — user reviews

> 186 indexed App Store user reviews of Sid Meier’s Railroads! by Feral Interactive Ltd, rated 4.70/5 from 1,304 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sid-meiers-railroads/id1449719281/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sid-meiers-railroads/id1449719281.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,059 · 4★ 157 · 3★ 35 · 2★ 19 · 1★ 34

## What do users think of Sid Meier’s Railroads!?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Great game
- 👍 Faithful port of original
- 🎮 Enjoyable gameplay
- 🎨 Beautiful graphics
- 🕰️ Hours of replay value

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🔋 Battery draining issues
- 🕹️ Fiddly track laying controls
- 🤖 Subpar AI opponents
- 💰 Expensive for a mobile game

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Disappearing tracks
- Routing issues and inability to connect stations
- Map freezing and becoming unresponsive

**Most requested features**

- Larger maps
- More scenarios and campaigns
- Multiplayer mode
- Ability to buy/sell shares
- More train and engine variety

## Newest reviews (14 of 186)

### 3/5 — AI players stop playing

*2026-08-26, version 1.4.2*

Even on the hardest difficulty setting, the AI players stop upgrading trains after a few years (if they upgrade at all), so that winning a game can seem slightly hollow. If you can make it past 20-30 years, the opponent effectively gives up.

### 3/5 — Restricted rail stations

*2026-08-23, version 1.4.2*

The game controls were you can place your stations. I would like more freedom to choose.

### 3/5 — Great classic game with too high a price

*2026-07-30, version 1.4.2*

The game is enjoyable. I played the original on PC back in the day. However charging 15$ for a 20yr old game is a little bit much. I appreciate the work feral has done on so many other quality ports, this game is no different, but 10$ would be much more reasonable.

### 3/5 — Good game not without flaws

*2026-07-25, version 1.4.2*

Really enjoying this game, played it many times. Building the tracks is frustrating though, merging tracks or joining tunnels often results in a lack of connection. Build a fishery station and it thinks you trying to build it over water and won’t let you. Despite that it is a very good game and enjoyable.

### 4/5 — Great Port, but needs work

*2026-07-06, version 1.4.2*

Drains battery way too much and makes my phone hot AF!

### 3/5 — Meh

*2026-07-03, version 1.4.2*

I love strategy games but needed to watch the YouTube tutorial just to be able to lay a track because tapping and holding wasn't doing anything basically not intuitive at all

### 4/5 — Fun railway simulator

*2026-06-18, version 1.4.2*

Complex and fun, this gives a lot to focus on building rails, routes and businesses. I wish the track tool was better at explaining why connected depots are unavailable for train routes… many factors can cause this and it typically doesn’t explain which reason applies

### 4/5 — Decent game

*2026-06-17, version 1.4.2*

Decent game for a couple of hours but once you’ve got the basics nailed a little bit repetitive. Each map is the same just clearly a different map but resources are broadly the same. A story mode would be sooo good and the ability to buy up resources I enjoy the buying up of industry of cities to create a demand for a local product to start making some series cash but once you’ve worked that it’s a bit repetitive.

### 3/5 — Annoying

*2026-05-31, version 1.4.2*

For some reason I keep losing money every time my trains stop at a depot. Why does it do this? I quit with somehow -200,000$!

### 2/5 — How to decide if so little time to?

*2026-01-26, version 1.4.2*

I know it is understandable that when trying the free trial, I won’t get all the perks, I understand it wouldn’t be better than buying the full game, but I feel as though they could’ve at least given another scenario and the timeframe be extended by 30 years at least, as a free trial at least is a short, one map, one scenario, & little to adjust. I feel as though if said things were to happen, it would help me further contemplate and decide if I should buy the game or not. As the short pacific coast map and short timeframe does not. not like they’re actually gonna listen, I’m just expressing how I feel

### 2/5 — No tutorial

*2026-01-11, version 1.4.2*

Sadly this game no longer provides a tutorial and unlike other games does not have a pop up advisor to explain as you go. So I have no idea if it is a good game or not.

### 4/5 — Great game small world

*2025-12-22, version 1.4.2*

Love this game, only issue is the world is small.  After taking over other barons there really is no “next step” in which I could expand the rail world

### 3/5 — Its ok

*2025-10-27, version 1.4.2*

The game itself is fun But gets boring eventually. I kind of want a refund.

### 3/5 — Why am I getting charged $14.16 repeatedly when I thought it was a one time purchase?

*2025-10-16, version 1.4.2*

This game is very addicting, if you start playing it it’s hard to put it down.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Worst game ever

*2026-08-17, version 1.4.2*

This sucks. Can you even play the game?🤬

### 1/5 — Impossible d’enlever les rails

*2026-08-09*

J’abandonne

**Developer response:** Pour démolir une section de voie, appuyez dessus une fois jusqu'à ce qu'elle soit surlignée en gris. Une fois surlignée, une option de démolition apparaîtra.

Nous espérons que cela vous aidera. N'hésitez pas à nous contacter à l'adresse support@feralinteractive.com si vous avez besoin d'une assistance supplémentaire.

### 1/5 — Läuft nicht mehr auf aktuellen iPad Pros

*2026-08-08*

Seit der neuen iPAD OS Versionen wird der Touchscreen im Spiel nicht mehr angesprochen, damit ist das Spiel leider unspielbar. Vom Support keine Antwort. Schade! Bedeutet, dass ich kein Geld mehr diesem Entwickler gebe.

**Developer response:** Es tut uns leid, dass Sie Probleme mit dem Spiel haben.

Sollten die Probleme weiterhin bestehen, starten Sie bitte Ihr Gerät neu.

Falls die Probleme auch nach einem Neustart fortbestehen, senden Sie bitte eine E-Mail mit einer Problembeschreibung und Angaben zu Ihrem Gerät an support@feralinteractive.com. Unser Support-Team hilft Ihnen gerne weiter.

### 1/5 — ا

*2026-06-16, version 1.4.2*

لا تدعم اللغه العربية

### 1/5 — Poor not worth your time if you’re a die hard fan.

*2026-05-03, version 1.4.2*

This game is lacking basic abilities to convert resources to goods, a poor iteration of the original rail rod tycoon.

### 1/5 — 구매하지마세요

*2026-01-27*

1시간 하면 시나리오 끝입니다

### 1/5 — This app sucks😡

*2025-06-07, version 1.4.2*

Why? Make the full game 13 bucks Lower the price😡 why not just use ads or something? that would’ve been better. and the 20 years the game promised us. that only felt like one minute.

### 1/5 — Terrible but good

*2025-05-25, version 1.4.2*

I loved the actual game but the only problem was that u have to pay twelve dollars for it. It could have been perfect…

### 1/5 — ruim

*2025-02-08, version 1.4.2*

que jogo ruim não consigo fazer meus trilos 😡😡😡

### 1/5 — Don’t Waste Your Money

*2025-01-30, version 1.4.2*

Save your money and play the free version. This game crashes constantly, not worth the money. And the developers don’t care as they won’t refund you. Pass.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Brings back great memories

*2026-07-22, version 1.4.2*

It is just as I remember it!  I greatly enjoyed playing this when I was younger, and now I can play it in my golden years!

### 5/5 — Tenders?

*2026-04-02, version 1.4.2*

I loved this game on PC, so glad it is on here. But can the steam engines have tenders? They just look odd without their fuel tender behind them.

### 5/5 — Игра очень Крутая

*2026-02-11, version 1.4.2*

Жалко на айфон нету полной версии и оплатить её нельзя толком

### 5/5 — Fun game

*2026-01-26, version 1.4.2*

Learning curve is quite steep but I am starting to get the hang of this game.  I love train games that are currently out BUT they are all about supply and demand from a station.  That’s fun but there is the extra dimension (in this game) of actually going out into the big wife world as well.  Just wish the Developers would modernise it some more.  Why can’t we have Europe added like in the Desktop version guys??

### 5/5 — If you love the original from 2006

*2026-01-04, version 1.4.2*

Very faithful port of the original one. Basically identical as someone who still occasionally plays the PC version. Controls take a little bit to get used to as it is touch screen. Do try it before you buy.

### 5/5 — Gut gelungene Umsetzung des Klassikers

*2025-12-20*

Genauso fesselnd wie die originale Serie, mit einem sehr intuitiven Mikromanagement, das vorhanden ist, einen aber niemals überfordert. Definitiv mehr wert als es kostet!

### 5/5 — Jogo ótimo, mas onde está o cenário da América do Sul?

*2025-11-22*

Ficou um port muito bem acabado. É um jogo incrível para quem gosta de microgerenciamento. Mas onde está o cenário da América do Sul que existia na versão do PC?
Era um desafio maravilhoso transpor os Andes ou a Serra da Mantiqueira. O relevo sul americano deixava o jogo em outro patamar de dificuldade.
Façam o port desse cenário também, por favor!

### 5/5 — Good ,but

*2025-11-11, version 1.4.2*

The game is great but you have to purchase to play the hole game. It is unfair in my opinion.But other than that it’s pretty good (5 stars)

### 5/5 — Tricky at first, worth the learning curve.

*2025-11-08, version 1.4.2*

Multi-faceted and multi-dimensional enough to keep me coming back again and again, I can already tell!   A bit fussy to get the finer gist at first, but it’s all clicking now.  Fun!  Worth the cost.  I would now be interested in other titles by this company.

### 5/5 — Parker Fleming

*2025-09-30, version 1.4.2*

Papa Fleming

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