Railway Master Tycoon vs Fire Captain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Railway Master Tycoon
Become an excellent train conductor in this idle simulation game. Manage your railway empire, collect trains, and expand your network. Experience the thrill of being in charge of a bustling transportation system.
- Become a train conductor
- Idle gameplay
- Collect trains
- Expand railway network
- Manage transportation system
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Do you want to be an excellent conductor? Please start with this game!
Fire Captain
Lead a team of firefighters, doctors, and engineers in this casual strategy game. Build your base, recruit specialized personnel, and tackle exciting missions across various maps. Strategize your approach to overcome challenges and achieve success.
- Base building
- Hire firefighters, doctors, engineers
- Handle exciting missions
- Multiple maps and missions
- Recruit different heroes
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Fire Captain is a Casual Strategy game. In this game, you are acting as a fire captain, you build your base, hire more firefighters, doctor, engineers to work together to handle exciting missions! It offers: *Lots of different missions and maps *Many different heros
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Railway Master Tycoon at 53% against Fire Captain's 26%. Railway Master Tycoon also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Railway Master Tycoon sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and Fire Captain sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Railway Master Tycoon holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 169 and 72 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Railway Master Tycoon's written reviews are positive against 26% of Fire Captain's.
Railway Master Tycoon ships an update every 5 days, Fire Captain weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Railway Master Tycoon | Fire Captain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (169 ratings) — better | 4.2 (72 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.6% of reviews — better | 25.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 169 — better | 72 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 200 MB | 533 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shanxi Dalang Network Technology Co., Ltd. | Fuzhou Lingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Railway Master Tycoon
Fire Captain
User reviews
Railway Master Tycoon
From 169 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Relaxing and fun gameplay
- 👍 Good time killer
- 👍 Beautiful artwork
- 👍 Engaging and active gameplay
- 👍 Cute and fun game
Room to improve
- 💰 Game steals money
- 🐛 Game crashes frequently
- 🐛 Game won't open after crash
- 🐛 Ads not playing
- 🐛 Not receiving double income from ads
Fire Captain
From 72 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun game concept
- 💡 Fresh strategy game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Game unplayable due to bugs
- 🐛 Frequent freezing and crashing
- 🐛 Character gets stuck
- 🐛 Missions cannot be completed
- 🐛 Loading issues
Bugs and requests
Railway Master Tycoon
Reported bugs
12 issues- Purchased gems not received
- Game crashes and won't open
- Ads do not play or load indefinitely
- Double income from ads not awarded
- Unable to get dining car guests for quests
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- Game crashes on startup (iPhone 12 Pro)
- Incompatible with iPod touch 7 iOS 13.2.2
- Stock buy/sell color indicators are reversed
- No help section or re-explanation of mechanics
- Forced to watch ads for progression (train shards)
- No cross-device data transfer
- Game only available in English, not Chinese
Requested features
6 requests- More locations (e.g., space)
- More visual changes for train upgrades
- Revisit previous regions
- Expand mid-ride quests with puzzles
- Add entertainment venues
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- Cross-device data transfer
Fire Captain
Reported bugs
49 issues- Game stops at level 16
- Game will not load
- Maritime training drill rescue boat doesn't show up
- Boat unavailable in drill
- Helipad built but no aircraft
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- Unable to load boat in mission 15
- Video button for rewards doesn't work
- Game broken and closes app at level 17
- Stuck on first boat mission, click target off-screen
- Glitch in level 15
- Firefighters run through building instead of around
- Doctor goes to opposite side of building in level 6
- AI pathways cannot maneuver around building
- People walk through walls and get stuck
- Medic goes wrong trajectory and gets stuck
- Rescuer gets stuck in door frame in mission 14
- Second fire kills everyone by approaching it
- Cannot put fire out in level 14 without damage
- Cannot carry person in first room of level 14
- Stuck on level 11, character running in place exiting motel room
- Bed tracking issue, not going around to get asset
- Cannot access one of the assets in level 10
- Door in mission 14 in wrong place, units run in but not out
- Game bugs out at a certain point
- Shows close-up of firehouse but does nothing else
- Freezing at level 8, trucks don't come
- Game gets stuck a few levels after level 5 fix
- Game crashes and glitches after level 8
- Captain walks across bed instead of around and gets stuck on desk in level 5
- Captain glitches and walks on bed to get asset but can't get it in level 5
- Captain can't collect asset on mission 5 nightstand, gets stuck
- Asset in bedroom not letting player pick it up, glitched on bed in level 5
- Player gets stuck on invisible box at level 5
- Character gets stuck in level five trying to get asset by the bed on nightstand
- Bug prevents clearing of assets on level 5
- Stuck on level 5, get stuck on invisible barriers
- Captain character gets stuck on nightstand asset in level 5
- Firefighter gets stuck on bed trying to recover asset in mission 5
- Firefighter gets stuck retrieving assets by the bed in mission 5
- Firefighter climbs over bed and gets stuck in level 5
- Captain got stuck on bed in level 5
- Fireman get stuck trying to get money off dresser beside bed in level 5
- Glitch in level five, runs on bed then stands there
- Captain tries to recover asset in bedroom but gets stuck on bed in level 5
- Character keeps glitching and can't reach asset in level 4
- Cannot get one of the assets in the 5th mission
- Firefighters get stuck in invisible walls or run through walls in mission 5
- Captain gets stuck on bed trying to get money from bedside table in mission 5
- Lags and unable to complete missions
Requested features
4 requests- Make more levels
- Fix bugs before release
- Improve AI pathfinding
- More extinguishers for fires
In-app purchases
Railway Master Tycoon
- 150 Diamonds$0.99
- 2-Star Engine Shardsx10$1.99
- 8-Star Engine Shardsx10$1.99
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- 3-Star Engine Shardsx10$1.99
- Starter Pack$2.99
- 500 Diamonds$2.99
- 1000 Diamonds$4.99
- Speed Pack$7.99
- Super Pack$9.99
- Car Pack$9.99
- Engine Pack$10.99
- Remove Ads$14.99
- Deluxe Pack$19.99
- Mega Pack$19.99
Fire Captain
- A Couple of Gems$0.99
- New Player Package$1.99
- A Handful of Gems$2.99
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- ToolPackage$3.99
- Growth Rewards VIP$4.99
- A Pile of Gems$4.99
- VehiclePackage$8.99
- A Sack of Gems$9.99
- ToolPackageUsualPrice$12.99
- VehiclePackageUsualPrice$29.99
Questions
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