Comparison

Rail Maze vs Arcbound

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

Head to head
About

Rail Maze

A unique train maze puzzle game for all ages with over 30 challenging levels. Players must pay close attention to rail colors and adjust tracks to avoid obstacles and complete mazes. Features captivating animations and engaging sounds for endless fun.

Highlights
  • Unique train maze puzzle gameplay
  • Over 30 challenging levels
  • Color-matching rail adjustments
  • Avoid explosive surprises
  • Captivating animations
  • Engaging sounds
Features
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Rail Maze Rail Maze is the ultimate and unique train maze puzzle game for kids and adults, featuring over 30 challenging puzzles that will keep you entertained for hours. In this classic game, pay close attention to the rail colors and adjust the tracks accordingly to avoid explosive surprises. With captivating animations and engaging sounds at each level, Rail Maze game offers endless fun for all ages. Dive into the excitement and see if you can master every maze!

About

Arcbound

Features
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Arcbound is a colony simulation game set entirely on a single evolving starship. Everything is connected. And everything can fail at any moment. Design and expand your ship room by room, manage oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide a fragile civilisation from Earth’s final evacuation into deep space. WHAT YOU DO Design and expand your Arcship room by room Manage oxygen, power, water, and food to keep your crew alive Send missions to Earth to recover resources and survivors Grow your ship into a self-sustaining spacefaring civilisation Every system connects. Every decision has consequences. Inspired by classic colony sims, Arcbound takes the genre into a single fully interconnected starship, where layout, systems, and social dynamics are tightly linked. FROM ESCAPE SHIP TO STAR-BOUND SOCIETY Early Access includes both phases of Arcbound’s journey: Phase 1: The Exodus Stabilise your ship before Earth collapses and prepare for launch. Phase 2: The Voyage Guide a growing civilian population during multi-year transit as your Arcship becomes a living society facing internal pressure, scarcity, and unknown signals from deep space. BUILD YOUR ARCSHIP Start with a small emergency platform and grow it into a fully functioning star-faring vessel. Design living quarters, engineering bays, hydroponics, research facilities, and life-support systems while managing power, water, atmosphere, and maintenance across a fully simulated ship. A well-designed ship creates stability. A poorly planned one barely survives. MANAGE YOUR CREW Your crew are more than workers. They form friendships and rivalries, develop beliefs, suffer stress, and react to the decisions you make as commander. Social relationships and ideology evolve over time, influencing morale, productivity, and the long-term identity of your Arcship. Rescue new survivors, but every arrival may change the culture of your ship. SURVIVE THROUGH MISSIONS Send crews beyond your vessel on dangerous expeditions to secure vital resources. Recover technology, extract survivors, or raid for fuel, missions always return something… but consequences follow. Injuries, conflict, and unexpected events can reshape life aboard your ship long after the mission ends. Missions can trigger injuries, political tension, or unexpected consequences that ripple through life aboard the ship. KEY FEATURES Grid-based ship construction and expansion Fully simulated oxygen, power, water, and resource networks Crew needs, skills, relationships, and ideology systems Consequence-driven mission system Research unlocking new technologies and discoveries Civilian population and societal stability management Emergent storytelling driven by player decisions Pause and time controls for relaxed strategic play Designed for long-form sandbox progression In Arcbound, your entire civilisation exists within a single evolving Arcship. Every decision shapes not just your ship, but the society living inside it. Stabilise your ship before Earth collapses… or carry your failures with you into the void. A CALM SURVIVAL EXPERIENCE Arcbound is designed as a chilled but thoughtful space management experience. Most of the time you’ll be carefully expanding and optimising your ship, until emergencies, social tension, or difficult choices introduce moments of drama. There is no single correct way to survive. Only the ship you build… and the future you create. Join the community on Discord

Screenshots

Rail Maze4 screens
Arcbound3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rail Maze at none against Arcbound's 1. Arcbound's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). On price 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

Both are free to download. Arcbound sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Rail Maze asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rail Maze ships an update every 6 weeks, Arcbound every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Rail Maze versus Arcbound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRail MazeArcbound
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB336 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperClaudio Souza MattosDean Lennard

In-app purchases

None

Rail Maze

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Arcbound

One-time1
  • Arcbound - Early Access$9.99

Questions

Is Rail Maze free?
Rail Maze is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arcbound free?
Arcbound is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rail Maze or Arcbound have ads?
Rail Maze shows ads; Arcbound does not.
Which is updated more often, Rail Maze or Arcbound?
Rail Maze ships an update every 6 weeks, and Arcbound every 2 days. Most recently, Rail Maze was updated on October 1, 2026 and Arcbound on October 6, 2026.

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