Station Manager vs Little Big Workshop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Station Manager
Build and customize your ultimate train station by adding various facilities and trains. Manage passenger comfort and expand your station's reach to attract more travelers. Create unique train combinations to cater to different passenger needs.
- Customize station facilities
- Add vending machines, benches, info boards
- Build arcades, VIP lounges, taco stands
- Link carriages to create new trains
- Expand surrounding area
- Attract diverse passengers
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All aboard this exciting journey to build the world's greatest train station! Customize your station with your favorite facilities and trains. Help your passengers travel in comfort by adding vending machines, benches, information boards and more. With fun features including arcades, VIP lounges and taco stands, you'll soon be everyone's favorite stop! Link different carriages to create new trains for business, tourism and more. Expand into the surrounding area to attract new passengers. It's full steam ahead for your spectacular new station! Watch as it fills with commuters, students and other travelers! -------------------------------------------------------- All game progress is stored on your device. Save data cannot be restored after deleting or reinstalling the app. Try searching for "Kairosoft" to see all of our games, or visit us at https://kairopark.jp. Be sure to check out both our free-to-play and our paid games! Follow us on X(Twitter) for the latest news! https://twitter.com/kairokun2010
Little Big Workshop
Build and manage your own tabletop factory, creating a wide variety of products from simple to complex. Expand your workshop, unlock new machines, and optimize production lines to satisfy clients and grow your business.
- Build and manage tabletop factories
- Create over 50 unique product types
- Design efficient production lines
- Expand workshop space and unlock machines
- Manage and care for workers
- Day/Night cycle simulation
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Imagine a magical factory, appearing right in your living room. A carefully planned masterpiece, where diligent workers throw together anything customers want. Rubber ducks and dressers, drones and electric guitars, scooters and other wonderful goods can be created from many different materials and sold for hard cash – cash you invest right back into your factory to get more machines, more workers and grow your business. In Little Big Workshop you become a factory tycoon! Real factories - made FUN You are the Big Boss and it’s time to take charge of your very own tabletop factory. Organize the factory floor, manage your workers, purchase machinery, and design efficient production lines - all within the time-limit and to your client's satisfaction! An open-ended sandbox-experience Take it easy, it’s a sandbox-experience where you think, ponder and poke at things until you get it to work the way you’d like. Supply products to clients and an ever-changing market, as you produce over 50 unique product types, built from multiple parts and pieces - all of which can be created with different materials and production methods. No two factories should ever look the same. Tiny hands, big dreams Start out with just a small workshop and expand to a desk-filling factory. Unlock ever fancier machines, add even more production methods, and most of all, more room. Soon enough you’ll be running multiple production lines, producing hundreds of advanced products each day, and watching with joy as your cute workers do the actual work. Features: - Varying industries and a wide range of products - Focus on practical problems, not on values, economics, or logistics - Organize all steps of the production on a blueprint - Factories grow as you unlock more desk space - Fully simulated Day/Night-cycle - Take care of your workers! Work them too hard and they drop like flies - Cute model-town art-style
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Little Big Workshop at none against Station Manager's shown. Little Big Workshop also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months) and review sentiment (60% vs 46%). Station Manager's advantage is price ($5.99 vs $10.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On rating, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Station Manager costs $5.99 and Little Big Workshop $10.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Little Big Workshop holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Station Manager's written reviews are positive against 60% of Little Big Workshop's.
Station Manager ships an update every 9 months, Little Big Workshop every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Station Manager | Little Big Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 — better | $10.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (29 ratings) | 4.1 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 312 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd | THQ Nordic Mobile GmbH |
Customer experience
Station Manager
Little Big Workshop
Bugs and requests
Station Manager
Reported bugs
22 issues- Game crashes frequently
- Game not loading/stuck on loading screen
- Cannot enter game after updates/OS upgrades
- Save data lost after updates
- Error messages upon loading
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- Game freezes or becomes unresponsive
- Ad integration issues (disabling rotation, random ads)
- UI elements overlapping or blocking buttons
- Issues with specific train types (silver train)
- Facility bonuses not applying or disappearing
- Loading failures after language changes
- Game becomes slow or laggy after updates
- Issues with ad bonuses not working as intended
- VIP events not appearing correctly
- Text display issues after updates
- Game not functioning after updates
- Inability to equip items
- Game crashing on older devices
- Ad block causing game to not open
- Issues with deleting platforms/floors
- Game not saving properly
- URL errors when changing language
Requested features
24 requests- Add a way to delete platforms
- Add a restart or main menu button
- Fix screen rotation issues
- Improve camera controls (zoom out)
- Add more levels or content
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- Make money acquisition easier
- Allow switching stations more easily
- Adapt for iPhone Air
- Add brighter color palettes
- Make controls easier
- Add a way to delete metro stations
- Add a new character named Isaac
- Add a summer parade event
- Add a way to reset save data
- Fix the silver train bug
- Add more save slots
- Improve translation of character names
- Add more station development options
- Fix the issue with the 24-hour ad bonus
- Improve UI and text display
- Add landscape mode support
- Fix the issue with the assistant/pop-ups
- Add more train types
- Make the game more engaging in later stages
Little Big Workshop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Station Manager
No in-app purchases
Little Big Workshop
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Station Manager free?
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