Electric Trains vs MobileBVE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Electric Trains
Experience a dynamic and interactive train simulation with intuitive controls. Drive trains, manage railroad switches, and complete challenging missions by transporting passengers and cargo. Explore different maps and a variety of train models in this engaging game.
- Third-person train simulation
- Intuitive controls
- Railroad switch management
- Passenger and cargo transport
- 26 challenging missions
- Free game mode
- 28 train models
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Electric trains is very dynamic and interactive train simulation game with a third-person view. The game has easy and intuitive controls. You can drive the train and control railroad switches ahead your train. Heavy traffic and railroad configuration will make missions more difficult to accomplish. You can transport passengers, coupling and carry cargo rail cars to earn maximum scores. The game features: - 30 missions of varying difficulty. - Free game mode on 7 simple maps with the ability to transport cargo and passengers. - 32 models of trains. Available languages: - Chinese - English - French - German - Hungarian - Italian - Japanese - Korean - Portuguese - Russian - Spanish
MobileBVE
Experience realistic train simulation on your mobile device with direct support for existing routes and trains. Enjoy advanced features and multiplayer capabilities for both online and local LAN play.
- Direct OpenBVE/BVE Trainsim route/train support
- Easy route/train importing
- Accurate train simulation
- Scenery animations
- Online and LAN multiplayer
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Introducing MobileBVE, an effort at porting OpenBVE to Mobile Devices. Took some time, hours of bugfixing and multiple headaches, but hey, it works. You might ask, why install this when Hmmsim exists? Well, it's free. And it's more advanced. Well what are the features anyways and how advanced is it? • Direct OpenBVE/BVE Trainsim 2/4 routes/trains support, no conversion needed • Easy route/train importing • Accurate Train Simulation just like OpenBVE or Hmmsim • Proper Scenery Animations • And much much more There's even support Multiplayer play(which OpenBVE nor Hmmsim has), which allows for Online or Local LAN Network Multiplayer Play. More updates to come.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: MobileBVE at none against Electric Trains's shown. MobileBVE also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Electric Trains's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 80%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Electric Trains against 4.7 for MobileBVE. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 115 and 53 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Electric Trains's written reviews are positive against 80% of MobileBVE's.
Electric Trains ships an update every 2 months, MobileBVE weekly. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Electric Trains | MobileBVE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (115 ratings) — better | 4.7 (53 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.1% of reviews — better | 79.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 53 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 804 MB | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evgeny Kolesnikov | co.eggtart.darkchess.app |
Customer experience
Electric Trains
MobileBVE
In-app purchases
Electric Trains
No in-app purchases
MobileBVE
No in-app purchases
Questions
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