City Train Station vs ROOT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
City Train Station
Experience the thrill of being a train driver in this realistic simulator. Control various locomotives, navigate detailed routes, and complete cargo or passenger transport missions. Features smooth controls, 3D graphics, and dynamic weather for an immersive railway adventure.
- Realistic train driving simulation
- Multiple locomotive types
- Cargo and passenger transport missions
- Detailed routes and environments
- Dynamic weather and day/night cycles
- Space train mode
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Train Driving Simulator: Ultimate Train Game lets you experience the thrill of being a real train driver. Control powerful locomotives, from classic passenger trains to modern cargo trains, across beautiful and detailed routes. If you enjoy train simulator games, this is the perfect choice. Drive through cities, mountains, forests, and tunnels while following signals, managing speed, and stopping at stations right on time. The game features smooth controls, realistic train sounds, and amazing 3D graphics that bring every journey to life. Whether you love cargo train delivery challenges or just want to relax in free ride mode, you’ll find endless fun. Complete cargo delivery missions, transport goods safely, and earn rewards for your driving skills. Enjoy the freedom of exploring open tracks with no time limits in free mode. Choose your favorite camera angle, including first-person train driver view or external views, and watch your train glide along the tracks. Dynamic weather, day and night cycles, and detailed landscapes add to the realism. The game offers a variety of train driving tasks to keep you entertained, from passenger pick-up to complex cargo transport. For a fun twist, the game also includes a special space train mode where you can drive futuristic trains on outer space tracks. But the core experience focuses on realistic and exciting locomotive driving that fans of railway simulators, driving simulators. Download Train Driving Simulator: Ultimate Train Game today and become a master train conductor. Whether you want to explore, transport, or test your skills, this railway game has everything you need for hours of fun!
ROOT
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ROOT is a text-mode world you explore one screen at a time — and it grows itself every night. Somewhere in regional Australia, someone built a public archive out of trees: solar-powered memory casings hidden in the burled knots of eucalypts, each broadcasting a small library at three hundred bits per second, to anyone still listening. Then the archive began to change on its own. It did not lose data. It began comparing things. You are @, the Reader — the oldest glyph a terminal has for a person. Wander the mesh node by node. Query what you find and it answers, changed. Download each node's file at 300bps into your /ROOT listing. Follow routes to the edge of the map, where the mesh hasn't grown yet — and come back after the next night to find it has. Everything you see is a character. No sprites, no 3D — just coloured glyphs on a dark screen, in the spirit of the ANSI art and BBS door games of the early net. Every node looks different: paddocks and service stations at dusk, circuit-board interiors, harbours, stormwater drains, a low-poly eucalyptus with a door in it. • A living world. New rooms are dreamt onto the map every night. Open the app tomorrow and it will be larger than it was today, in ways nobody chose. • Memories. Query the right thing and the screen turns warm — a side-on scene from a life surfaces, a beat of narrative, then the mesh returns. • Yours to keep. Plays fully offline. No account, no ads, no tracking, no notifications. Nothing you do leaves your device. ROOT grows out of the novel Their Most August Public Organ by C. W. Smith. You don't need to have read it. The archive is patient. STATUS: BEING READ.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ROOT at daily against City Train Station's every 4 weeks. City Train Station's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
City Train Station ships an update every 4 weeks, ROOT daily. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | City Train Station | ROOT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 276 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Samaika Ijaz | Craig Smith |
In-app purchases
City Train Station
No in-app purchases
ROOT
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Which is updated more often, City Train Station or ROOT?
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