Comparison

Rail Baron Tools vs PocketCiv

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

Head to head
About

Rail Baron Tools

Enhance your railroad empire strategy game experience. Quickly access crucial game data like destinations, payoffs, and region information to optimize your decisions and speed up gameplay. This reference tool is designed to complement the physical board game.

Highlights
  • Look up destination regions by dice roll
  • Look up destination cities by dice roll
  • View payoffs for destinations and city routes
  • Store player information
  • View detailed region and city information
  • Access railroad prices and connected cities
Features
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Rail Baron, the game of Building Railroad Empires, is an entertaining strategy game, where you are a Railroad mogul, buying up Rail Lines across America, attempting to become the ultimate Rail Baron. The game is a lot of fun to play, with the only frustration being, the time that it takes to look up information (Destinations, Payoffs, etc.) on the provided charts; which really slows down the game. Rail Baron Tools, is an Rail Baron reference app that takes the drudgery out of this, by allowing you to quickly look up the data you need, and helping you to optimize your decision making and strategies. Rail Baron Tools does not replace the game (i.e. you still play on the game board, using the actual playing pieces, money, dice etc.), but is meant to enhance it. The app provides data based on the 1977 edition Game published by The Avalon Hill Game Co. Features - Look up your destination Region based on a Dice Roll - Look up your destination City based on a Dice Roll - Look up a Payoff for completing a Destination - Look up a Payoff between any two Cities - Use an optional scaling factor, when calculating Payoffs - Store Player information including Name and Home City - View detailed Region information, including odds of rolling the Region - View detailed City information, including odds of rolling the City - View detailed Railroad information, including Price, Cities along the Railroad, and odds of rolling a City on the Railroad

About

PocketCiv

Features
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PocketCiv is a single-player strategy game of building civilizations. Use Tribes to expand your civilization, create Cities, buy Advances, build Wonders and send Expeditions, while preparing for the devastation that random events will bring. Only with careful planning and a little luck will your empire stand the test of time. - 15 Scenarios with unique rules and conditions - 17 destructive event types to survive - 50 upgrades to empower your civilization - 10 Wonders to bring glory to your empire - Standard game mode with randomly generated starting conditions for endless replayability - A complete, interactive tutorial to help you master the game

Screenshots

Rail Baron Tools4 screens
PocketCiv4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Rail Baron Tools at Free against PocketCiv's $9.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Rail Baron Tools is free to download; PocketCiv costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Rail Baron Tools versus PocketCiv: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRail Baron ToolsPocketCiv
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB360 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEwert TechnologiesBaby Marsupial Creations LLC

In-app purchases

None

Rail Baron Tools

No in-app purchases

None

PocketCiv

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rail Baron Tools free?
Rail Baron Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PocketCiv free?
PocketCiv costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rail Baron Tools or PocketCiv have ads?
Neither Rail Baron Tools nor PocketCiv shows ads.

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