Comparison

TrainSet 3D Pro vs Backburn

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

Head to head
About

TrainSet 3D Pro

Create and operate your own miniature railway world. Design intricate track layouts with a vast selection of pieces and populate your scenes with diverse scenery. Customize your trains with a wide array of cars for a personalized simulation experience.

Highlights
  • Realistic 3D model train simulation
  • Design custom track layouts
  • Extensive library of scenery pieces
  • Mix and match train cars
  • Multiple themed scenery sets
Features
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TrainSet 3D Pro is a complete and realistic model-train simulation. Design your layout, build it, and run your train in it. A large library of pieces is available to fill your scene. Choose from 25 different track and road pieces, and hundreds of different scenery pieces; sets include rural, urban, suburban, old west, trees/hedges/shrubberies, and trailer park. Also included are four complete trains, with over 30 different cars that you can mix and match in any combination.

About

Backburn

This offline strategy game lets you plan up to six turns ahead in wildfire scenarios. Compare different decisions, manage resources, and learn from your choices in a fictional environment. Rehearse before advancing to make every turn count.

Highlights
  • Plan six turns ahead
  • Compare strategy branches
  • Manage resources and crews
  • Offline gameplay
  • Thirty authored incidents
  • After-action reports
Features
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NEW IN 5.0: SEE THE NEXT TURN, UNDO A MISTAKE, TAKE A DAILY INCIDENT • Forecast: the map outlines every cell the fire will reach on your next Advance, and rings any structure that turn would lose. Change an order and the forecast redraws. It is exact for one turn because the game is deterministic. • Undo: step back any order placed since the last Advance, from a single line cell to a burnout. Undo never rerolls the fire. • Daily Incident: one new incident per date, generated on your device. An authored map with the wind turned 30 to 60 degrees and a fresh random sequence, the same for everyone that day. Your first finished attempt counts; practise as often as you like. Build a streak and share a plain-text result card. • Recruit, Standard or Veteran: Recruit slows the fire for learning, Standard is the campaign as you know it, Veteran spreads faster, spots more and makes engines work within two cells of their water target. • Service Record: nineteen commendations, from regime specialist to seven-day streaks, computed on your device. • Field Training that waits for you to act, briefings that introduce each new resource, iPad keyboard shortcuts, VoiceOver map summaries and high-contrast overlays. Make the next turn count. Backburn is an offline wildfire incident-command strategy game for iPhone and iPad, with thirty authored incidents and tools for trying, reviewing and learning from your decisions. COMMAND THE MAP Select and move resources, build line, place water or retardant, burn out from completed line and evacuate housing groups. Each Advance passes twenty minutes. Working crews tire; HOLD lets them recover. An authored weather schedule shows when winds shift, gust fronts arrive, inversions lift and spotting pressure rises. REHEARSE BEFORE ADVANCING Decision Desk resolves the next turn in two copies: your current orders, or crews held in place. Strategy Lab explores up to six turns of three fixed policies. Neither changes your incident or its random sequence. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Every campaign incident and the Daily Incident save their map, orders, weather, clock and random state. Resume from the menu, briefing or Daily screen. Completed incidents can be reopened to review the report. COMPARE YOUR ATTEMPTS A restart keeps one previous attempt per scenario. Compare both recorded timelines and their acres, structures lost and line completed at the same turn. LEARN FROM ACTUAL RESULTS After-action reports state recorded growth, losses, injuries and score, plus any commendation earned. Passing a scenario and extinguishing all fire are different outcomes. The Field Guide explains the real rules, including the forecast, difficulty and Daily Incident. Thirty incident maps across grassland, chaparral, conifer, peat and interface fuels, with seeded spread and spotting, resource rosters and housing groups. Play in landscape on iPhone or iPad. No account, advertising, subscription or in-app purchases; gameplay works offline and progress stays on your device. Backburn is a fictional strategy game with a surface-fire model adapted for play. It is not a real-world fire forecast, emergency tool or professional training. The in-game forecast predicts only this game's next turn. There is no live weather feed, online leaderboard or app-managed cloud synchronization.

Screenshots

TrainSet 3D Pro4 screens
Backburn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TrainSet 3D Pro at 100% against Backburn's 0%. Backburn's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

TrainSet 3D Pro costs $1.99 and Backburn $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TrainSet 3D Pro versus Backburn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrainSet 3D ProBackburn
Price$1.99$0.99 — better
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size273 MB118 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPolyhedron Learning Media, Inc.Robert Corbin

Customer experience

TrainSet 3D Pro

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Backburn

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

TrainSet 3D Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Backburn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TrainSet 3D Pro free?
TrainSet 3D Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Backburn free?
Backburn costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do TrainSet 3D Pro or Backburn have ads?
Neither TrainSet 3D Pro nor Backburn shows ads.

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