Comparison

Tiny Rails vs Fly Brain Lab

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tiny Rails

Build a global train empire from a single engine to a multi-car masterpiece. Deliver passengers and cargo worldwide, customize your trains, and explore beautiful locations. Enjoy a relaxing retro pixel art experience that continues even when you're offline.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of train set combinations
  • Global travel and landmark exploration
  • Train car customization for passenger happiness
  • Background gameplay
  • Retro pixel art and relaxing music
Features
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All aboard for an adventure around the world! Grow your Grandpa's modest single engine train company into a multi-car masterpiece in this immersive, world-spanning game from Tiny Titan Studios. Deliver passengers and cargo across the world, while upgrading and customizing your train cars to become the ultimate railroad tycoon! Features include: • 100s of train set combinations each with their own unique characteristics! • Travel across the world and explore beautiful locations and famous landmarks! • Outfit your train with food, entertainment or comfort cars to increase passenger happiness and keep business booming! • Your train runs in the background even when you’re not playing! • Packed with gorgeous retro pixel art and relaxing music! PLEASE NOTE! Tiny Rails is free to download and play, however, some game items can also be purchased for real money. If you don't want to use this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your device's settings. Also, under our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, you must be at least 13 years of age to play or download Tiny Rails. Tiny Rails can be played offline, but please note that an active internet connection is required to update the train shop. Support: Are you having problems? Visit https://trophy-games.com/contact-us or contact us in game by navigating to Settings > Support. Privacy Policy: https://trophy-games.com/tiny-titans/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://trophy-games.com/tiny-titans/terms-of-service Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/trophygamescompany/ Follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/TrophyGamesDK

About

Fly Brain Lab

Features
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A puzzle game played on a real fruit fly brain. The 6,486 neurons and 242,120 synaptic connections inside this fly are not invented. They come from MaleCNS v1.0, the publicly released whole-brain connectome of an adult male Drosophila melanogaster (HHMI Janelia / Google Research, CC-BY 4.0). HOW IT WORKS Buzz lives on a rotting banana. It smells the fermentation, tastes sugar with its feet (fruit flies really do), grooms itself, and flies a lap now and then. When your finger comes close, one line called the escape neuron fires, and it bolts. Open the lab and you can silence that line. Poke the fly again — it doesn't move. You just did what neuroscientists do for a living. TEN PUZZLES Each level gives you a goal and the real wiring diagram: • Make it take five pokes without fleeing • Keep it on the banana without a single bite • Let it smell the food but never reach it — without touching smell • Make it extend its proboscis in mid-air, touching no food at all • Without poking it once, make it scare itself Later levels forbid the obvious switch, so you have to find another way in. One level teaches something the connectome itself taught us: silencing LC4 alone only cuts the escape response by 40% — the signal arrives by more than one road. WHAT YOU GET FREE The whole brain viewer and the first three puzzles, forever. No ads. No subscription. No energy bar. The one-time unlock adds the Stimulate verb — firing any pathway at will — and every puzzle from level 4 on. Not a research tool. A toy built on real data.

Screenshots

Tiny Rails4 screens
Fly Brain Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Fly Brain Lab at none against Tiny Rails's shown. Tiny Rails's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tiny Rails sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Fly Brain Lab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tiny Rails versus Fly Brain Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny RailsFly Brain Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (6.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size502 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrophy Games Canada Inc.ZU YIBO

Bugs and requests

Tiny Rails

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Train not progressing when left unattended
  • Rewards not properly awarded after watching ads
  • Checklist progress not updating correctly
  • UI elements becoming hidden or overlapping
  • Crashes when trying to take in-game photos

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to set custom routes or waypoints for the train
  • More frequent or varied obstacles and challenges
  • Better organization and filtering options for train cars
  • Improved UI and optimization for newer devices
  • Ability to have multiple save files or profiles

Fly Brain Lab

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tiny Rails

Subscriptions1
  • VIP Gold Pass3 Days trial$3.997 Days
One-time9
  • Kickstarter Deal$1.99
  • Eurotrip Deal$1.99
  • Gems (Tiny)$4.99
Show 6 more
  • Care Package$4.99
  • Booster Deal Pack$4.99
  • Gems (Small)$9.99
  • Care Package 2$9.99
  • Gems (Medium)$19.99
  • Care Package 3$19.99
1 purchases

Fly Brain Lab

One-time1
  • Full Lab$4.99

Questions

Is Tiny Rails free?
Tiny Rails is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fly Brain Lab free?
Fly Brain Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tiny Rails or Fly Brain Lab have ads?
Tiny Rails shows ads; Fly Brain Lab does not.

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