Rail Nation vs Industries
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rail Nation
Become a railway tycoon in this transport simulation strategy game. Build your empire by managing goods, researching technologies, and cooperating with other players. Experience the history of railways across six eras and lead your city to prosperity.
- Realistic economy simulation
- Cooperative and competitive gameplay
- Real-time decision making
- Six eras of railway history
- Multiple game scenarios
- Cross-platform play (PC/Mac browser)
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Welcome to the world of Rail Nation. Here YOU will become a railway tycoon! Enter the transport simulation and discover the globally popular strategy game, train by train. You start in a small city that needs to be supplied with goods. Boost the economy to make the city – and your railway company – grow fast. Experience the history of railways in six authentic eras. Research modern technologies and choose from 150 realistic engines and trains. Feel the power of your team: Get together with other players in corporations, dominate your game world, and lead your city to victory! Find the right tactics, build your railway empire, and become a successful entrepreneur. Features: • Realistic economy simulation: Pay attention to supply and demand, consider production times, and smartly trade 48 different goods. • Cooperation and competition: Play with other players in corporations and become a powerful alliance to beat the competition. • Real-time calculation system: Make decisions throughout the day. • 6 eras of railway history: Experience historic steam engines, powerful diesel engines, and ultramodern electric engines. All trains are modeled with great attention to detail. • 3 different scenarios: Play Classic on a fantasy map featuring 50 cities. Fight for supremacy in the battle of East vs. West on the USA map. Travel through Europe in Steam over Europe and bring the continent to prosperity. • Also on your PC: Playable in a browser on your PC or Mac with the same account! Issues & Questions: https://support.rail-nation.com/ Blog: https://blog.rail-nation.com/ Community Discord: https://discord.gg/railnation Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RailNation T&Cs: https://agb.traviangames.com/terms-en.pdf Requirements Recommended: Dual Core CPU, 1.5 GB RAM Rail Nation can be downloaded and played for free. Some in-game features may be purchased for real money. If you don't want to use this function, please disable in-app purchases in your device's settings. A network connection is required.
Industries
Build and manage your own industrial empire, producing and selling a wide range of goods. Trade on a global market, negotiate contracts with other players, and strategically develop your production facilities. Complete quests for rewards and customize your personal residence with collected prestige items.
- Build industrial plants
- Produce and sell products
- Trade on world market
- Negotiate player contracts
- Manage regional factors
- Complete quests
- Customize residence
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Create your own corporate empire, build complex industrial plants, expand and develop them to produce and sell countless products. You trade raw materials and products with your fellow players via the world market and sell finished products to local metropolises, shopping malls, jewelers, car manufacturers and many more. Here, supply and demand determine the price, so always keep a close eye on the market. Use the communication possibilities with other players to discuss your products with them and negotiate individual contracts. Use the influence of different regions and their factors to keep production speed, costs and maintenance in line with the product. Team up with other companies in a group to develop common strategies and advance your interests. From time to time, large corporations and states will approach all players in the form of quests and want to buy some material. If you deliver the necessary products, you will always be well rewarded. If you can deliver a lot, you can even get a special card, with which you can operate one of your industrial complexes much more profitably for a short time. At the end of the quest, the top-ranked player gets a rare and valuable prestige object. Use your accumulated wealth to design your residence according to your wishes and collect the rare prestige objects and store them safely in your vault. Create your empire, become an industrial magnate and dominate the world market! At en.wiki.industries-game.ch you will find a lot of information about the game that can help you at any time. In order to offer you the best possible gaming experience, we always welcome your feedback! Feel free to write us directly via in-game feedback.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rail Nation at 3.9 against Industries's 3.2. Rail Nation also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (281 vs 13). Industries's advantage is review sentiment (62% vs 42%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Rail Nation sells 36 one-off in-app purchases and Industries sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Rail Nation holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rail Nation has 281 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 42% of Rail Nation's written reviews are positive against 62% of Industries's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Rail Nation ships an update every 3 weeks, Industries monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rail Nation | Industries |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (281 ratings) — better | 3.2 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.8% of reviews | 61.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 281 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.3 GB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Travian Games GmbH | Michel Vogt |
Customer experience
Rail Nation
Industries
Bugs and requests
Rail Nation
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login issues and account problems
- Inability to claim rewards and bonuses
- Unresponsive UI and freezing screens
Requested features
3 requests- Add Russian/Ukrainian language support
- Improve compatibility with newer iOS devices
- Optimize app for better battery life
Industries
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Rail Nation
- Gold Package A$1.99
- Spring Package 2 2025$3.99
- Spring Package$3.99
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- Birthday Offer 3 Basic$3.99
- Birthday Offer 1 Basic$3.99
- Birthday Offer 2 Basic$3.99
- Gold Package B$4.99
- Rail Pass Premium$6.99
- Winter Season Pass$6.99
- Bella Italia Bundle Basic$6.99
- Perfect Paradise Bundle Basic$6.99
- Summer Event Package Basic$6.99
- Global Enterprise Start-Up$8.99
- Winter Event Package Premium$8.99
- Gold Package C$9.99
- Full-steam box Basic$9.99
- Birthday Offer 7 Premium$17.99
- Birthday Offer 5 Premium$17.99
- Birthday Offer 4 Premium$17.99
- Birthday Offer 3 Premium$17.99
- Birthday Offer 2 Premium$17.99
- Birthday Offer 1 Premium$17.99
- Winter Event Package Deluxe$17.99
- Gold Package D$19.99
- Full-steam box Medium$22.99
- Sylvester Surprise Bundle$22.99
- Dest. Africa Bundle Premium$24.99
- Summer Event Package Premium$24.99
- Bella Italia Bundle Premium$29.99
- PP Bundle Premium$29.99
- Full-steam box Premium$44.99
- Gold Package E$49.99
- Birthday Offer 1 Deluxe$59.99
- Summer Event Package Deluxe$59.99
- Full-steam box Deluxe$79.99
- Gold Package F$99.99
Industries
- 800 diamonds$1.99
- 2,000,000 money$1.99
- Recycling (-25%)$1.99
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- 500 diamonds & 800K money$1.99
- Efficiency (200%)$3.99
- Recycling (-50%)$3.99
- 6,000,000 money$4.99
- 5,000 diamonds$4.99
- 12,000 diamonds$9.99
- 15,000,000 money$9.99
- 2K diamonds & 10M money$9.99
- 6'000'000 money$19.99
- 80,000,000 money$40.99
- 10K diamonds & 100M money$49.99









