Comparison

Tiny Trains vs PigPen

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Trains

A relaxing logic puzzle game where you build rail networks to guide trains to their destinations. Solve increasingly complex levels by splitting, merging, and routing trains, with a Pro upgrade unlocking 100 handcrafted levels.

Highlights
  • Build rail networks
  • Guide trains to stations
  • Split and merge train colors
  • Solve logic puzzles
  • Handcrafted levels
  • Route planning mechanics
Features
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TRY BEFORE YOU BUY. 200 railway logic puzzles: play 50 free and unlock 150 with Pro through one permanent purchase. No ads. No subscriptions. Today’s Easy and Medium Daily puzzles are free; Pro also includes Hard and unsolved puzzles from past days. Tiny Trains is a calm railway logic game about drawing tracks, planning routes, and guiding every colorful train to the right station. Start with simple connections, then master shared tracks, switches, color mixing, painters, splitters, obstacles, and precise timing. BUILD A WORKING RAILWAY Every level is a compact railway system waiting to be completed. Study the starting points, stations, colors, and special pieces. Draw the tracks, connect the network, and press Play to see your plan come to life. There is no single path you must copy: experiment, rebuild, and discover a route that works. MASTER COLOR LOGIC Stations accept only the correct trains, so every connection matters. Merge trains to create new colors, use splitters to send one train along two routes, pass through painters to change colors, and build around obstacles. Later puzzles combine these rules and ask you to coordinate several trains across the same network. PLAN THE ROUTE AND THE TIMING A railway can look perfect and still fail when two trains arrive in the wrong order. Think ahead, decide which tracks should be shared, and control when trains meet. Pause the simulation, move through time step by step, and watch exactly where your design needs to change. Undo and redo make it easy to refine the tracks without starting over. LEARN WITHOUT THE RUSH Guided, hands-on tutorials introduce each mechanic while you play. The difficulty grows naturally from short connections to layered networks with color changes, merges, splits, and carefully timed arrivals. There are no countdowns or reflex challenges. Take as long as you need and enjoy the satisfying moment when the entire railway finally works. SAVE AND IMPROVE YOUR SOLUTIONS Your unfinished board is saved automatically, so you can leave a puzzle and continue later. Completed routes are saved too, making it easy to revisit an elegant solution, try a completely different design, or share your finished railway. PLAY WITH CLARITY Clean visuals keep tracks, trains, and stations easy to read. Optional letters and symbols distinguish colors without relying on color alone. Larger Text and Reduced Motion support help you adjust the experience to the way you play. FEATURES • A full campaign of handcrafted logic puzzles • Permanent unlock with one purchase, no subscription • No ads • Guided, hands-on tutorial levels • Saved unfinished boards and completed solutions • Game Center achievements • Accessibility options including letters and symbols for colors, Larger Text, Reduced Motion, and play that does not rely on color alone MADE FOR PUZZLE FANS Tiny Trains is a great fit for players who enjoy railway puzzles, route planning, network games, color-matching challenges, brain teasers, and calm strategy. Levels are easy to begin and rewarding to master, whether you solve one puzzle during a short break or settle in to perfect a complicated network. Inspired by the route-planning spirit of classic train puzzles such as Trainyard, Tiny Trains offers its own levels, visual style, progression, and mechanics. Tiny Trains is an independent game and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the creators of Trainyard. Build the tracks. Match the colors. Solve the network.

About

PigPen

Features
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Fence the pigs. Fill the field. One puzzle a day. PigPen is a daily logic puzzle for the one-finger, coffee-break crowd — players who love Wordle, Connections, and Strands and are ready for something with a little more bite. The board is a grid of farmland with pigs scattered across it. Your job is simple to learn and surprisingly deep to master: drag fences along the grid lines to enclose every pig in its own pen, where each pen is rotationally symmetric around its pig and the whole field is partitioned with no leftover squares. Three rules. No timers in your face. No fluff. Just a clean, satisfying daily solve. FEATURES • A new puzzle every day — three sizes (5×5, 7×7, 10×10), each with Standard and Hard tiers, so you can pick a quick warm-up or settle in for a Sunday-cryptic-sized challenge. • Globally-keyed daily puzzles so leaderboards stay fair — everyone's puzzle of the day is the same puzzle. • One-finger play — tap a fence to toggle it, drag along an axis to paint a run of fences, long-press to mark a cell. • Live symmetry hints (optional) — your moves' rotational counterparts highlight faintly so you can feel the shape of each pen. • Unlimited undo and redo — experiment freely without losing your place. • Mistake checker and one daily hint per puzzle when you're truly stuck. • Clean-solve badges for finishing without hints or mistakes. • Stats and streaks that track your daily habit, not your wallet. • Gorgeous, warm visual design — pigs you'll actually want to fence in. WHO IT'S FOR If you start your morning with a daily word game and finish it before your coffee's cold, PigPen is the next logic puzzle for your routine. It's deductive (no guessing, no trial-and-error), uniquely solvable, and hand-tuned for satisfying "aha" moments rather than tedious bookkeeping. INSPIRED BY THE CLASSICS PigPen is a love letter to Galaxies (Tentai Show) by Nikoli — one of the most elegant pen-and-paper puzzle formats ever invented — reimagined with a warmer hook, modern progression, and the daily cadence that makes a puzzle a habit. Get one puzzle a day. Build a streak. Become the kind of person who fences pigs.

Screenshots

Tiny Trains4 screens
PigPen4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tiny Trains and PigPen are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Tiny Trains sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PigPen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Trains ships an update every 3 days, PigPen weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tiny Trains versus PigPen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny TrainsPigPen
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (30 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings30 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMurat YilmazRodney Telford

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tiny Trains

One-time1
  • Full Puzzle Pack$5.99
1 purchases

PigPen

One-time1
  • PigPen Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Tiny Trains free?
Tiny Trains is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PigPen free?
PigPen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tiny Trains or PigPen have ads?
Neither Tiny Trains nor PigPen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Trains or PigPen?
Tiny Trains ships an update every 3 days, and PigPen weekly. Most recently, Tiny Trains was updated on November 9, 2026 and PigPen on November 5, 2026.

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