Sid Meier’s Railroads! vs Model Railway Easily 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sid Meier’s Railroads!
Become a railroad tycoon by building and managing intricate railway networks. Optimize routes, transport goods and passengers, and grow your profits through shrewd business decisions and innovation. Compete with historical figures to become the greatest rail baron.
- Lay tracks and design routes
- Transport freight and passengers
- Acquire patents and trade stocks
- Build or buy industries
- Compete with historical figures
- Collect 40 famous trains
- Train Table Mode for creative building
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Become history’s greatest rail baron in Sid Meier’s Railroads!, a classic of the tycoon genre now available for iPhone and iPad. In this captivating mix of model train set and railway management simulator, lay tracks and optimise routes to establish lucrative networks of cities and industries, transporting passengers, raw materials and goods across continents. Grow profits through efficiency, innovation, and shrewd business decisions as you acquire valuable patents, trade stocks, and build or buy industries. Compete with world leaders and industrial titans to achieve the ultimate goal — becoming the greatest railroad tycoon of the age! === TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Lay the foundations of your railroad empire during the Gold Rush, then unlock the full game for more maps, trains, and 16 charming scenarios spanning the golden age of rail. CREATE AN EMPIRE OF THE RAILS Carefully lay tracks and design routes to transport freight and passengers, refining and improving operations until your railroad runs like clockwork. STEAM ACROSS 16 CHALLENGING SCENARIOS Test your entrepreneurial mettle in a mix of historical and fictional scenarios, each with a distinctive map and unique objectives. Establish the first passenger line in 1830s Great Britain, stitch together the American West during the Gold Rush, or help Santa with the Christmas rush at the North Pole! COMPETE WITH HISTORY’S BEST Take on world leaders and captains of industry. Grow your business by acquiring industries and railroad-revolutionising patents, or play the stock market and buy out the competition. BRING 40 FAMOUS TRAINS TO LIFE Play with historically important engines from early steam locomotives like Stephenson’s Planet, to the high-speed French TGV, and many iterations and innovations in between. BUILD THE MODEL RAILROAD OF YOUR DREAMS Take the pressure off in Train Table Mode. No competition, time limits, or financial constraints — just all you need to create a railroad that’s as fun to watch as it is satisfying to build. === We recommend playing Sid Meier's Railroads! on iOS 15.5 or later. You need 1.7GB of free space on your device, though we recommend at least double this to avoid initial installation issues. Supported iPhones: • iPhone 6S / 6S Plus and later • Any iPhone SE • iPod Touch (7th generation, 2019) Supported iPads: • iPad mini (5th generation, 2019) and later • iPad Air (3rd generation, 2019) and later • iPad (5th generation, 2017) and later • Any iPad Pro • If you require assistance, please contact our support team at support@feralinteractive.com © 2006-2024 Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Originally developed by Firaxis Games. Sid Meier’s Railroads!, Firaxis Games, 2K, Take-Two Interactive Software and their respective logos are trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Developed for and published on iOS by Feral Interactive. iOS and the iOS logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Feral and the Feral logo are trademarks of Feral Interactive Ltd. All other trademarks, logos and copyrights are property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.
Model Railway Easily 2
Design and build intricate model railway layouts in a realistic 3D environment. Sculpt terrain, lay tracks, and populate your world with detailed models of trains, buildings, and scenery. Enjoy intuitive controls for train operation and a vast creative canvas.
- True 3D graphics environment
- Built-in terrain editor
- Easy track layout creation
- Realistic train simulation
- Extensive 3D model library
- Unlimited track length
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You can build highly detailed and functional model railway layouts in this game in a TRUE 3D graphics environment. Now with built-in terrain editor! Create hills, valleys, rivers, bays and paint them with your finger. You can now also build tracks and let run trains also up and down the hills. You can choose to create your own customized terrain for your layout, or, start with various premade empty terrain types. Then populate the terrain with beautiful 3D models of engines, wagons, buildings, plants etc. Creating the track layout is very easy with the self explaining menus, which offer always only the possible actions during the use. The length of the track is practically unlimited. You can add as many switches as you want, only your fantasy limits the complexity. Put engines and wagons on the built track and just push them with your finger, and they start to move. They will travel the prepared track and stop automatically at the placed stations. If a train reaches and end of the track, it will stop, and move backward after a few seconds. Add different houses, buildings, plants, roads to increase the reality of your layout, and enjoy the beautiful details of all 3D models. Hint: on older devices turn off shadows and reduce details in app's settings
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Sid Meier’s Railroads! at Free against Model Railway Easily 2's $9.99. Sid Meier’s Railroads! also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 14). Model Railway Easily 2's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (70% vs 59%). On ads 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
Sid Meier’s Railroads! is free to download; Model Railway Easily 2 costs $9.99 up front. Sid Meier’s Railroads! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Model Railway Easily 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sid Meier’s Railroads! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sid Meier’s Railroads! has 1.4K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Sid Meier’s Railroads!'s written reviews are positive against 70% of Model Railway Easily 2's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Sid Meier’s Railroads! | Model Railway Easily 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better | 4.2 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.4% of reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.6 GB | 419 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Feral Interactive Ltd | rbskft |
Customer experience
Sid Meier’s Railroads!
Model Railway Easily 2
Bugs and requests
Sid Meier’s Railroads!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Disappearing tracks
- Routing issues and inability to connect stations
- Map freezing and becoming unresponsive
Requested features
5 requests- Larger maps
- More scenarios and campaigns
- Multiplayer mode
- Ability to buy/sell shares
- More train and engine variety
Model Railway Easily 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sid Meier’s Railroads!
- Full Game Unlock$12.99
Model Railway Easily 2
No in-app purchases
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