Tiny Trains vs Murky Horizon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Build rail networks
- Guide trains to stations
- Split and merge train colors
- Solve logic puzzles
- Handcrafted levels
- Route planning mechanics
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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.
Murky Horizon
Defend your bunker against waves of incoming lizards in this twin-stick shooter and tower defense hybrid. Strategically build and upgrade defenses between rounds, manage resources earned from kills, and survive 40 challenging rounds with a day-night cycle.
- Twin-stick shooter gameplay
- Tower defense mechanics
- Bunker defense
- Resource management
- Day-night cycle
- Offline play
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Night is falling and the lizards are coming. Hold the bunker for forty rounds. Murky Horizon is a twin-stick shooter crossed with tower defense. You are one marine with a rifle, a bunker to protect, and a few seconds between waves to build. Lizards pour in from every edge of the map and head straight for the hatch. When the bunker falls, the run is over: you respawn, it does not. SHOOT • Drag on the left to move. Hold FIRE to shoot the way you're facing, or drag out from it to aim • Hold CHARGE for slower shots that pierce a whole line • Throw flares at night, when the dark swallows everything past your muzzle flash BUILD • Rocket turrets, ice turrets, lasers, and barriers you can drag into a whole wall • Upgrade anything you own. Sell it for a full refund and rebuild somewhere smarter • Every dollar comes from kills. Spend it between waves, or start the next one early SURVIVE • 40 rounds, with a day–night cycle that changes how each one plays • Boss waves. "Berserkers... everywhere." • Four difficulties, from Easy to Nightmare • Your best runs, kept on your device NO CATCH • Free. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account • Plays offline • No analytics, no tracking. Nothing leaves your phone Murky Horizon began life as a 2009 console indie game and has been rebuilt from the original art, audio and shaders. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Murky Horizon at 5.0 against Tiny Trains's 4.5. Murky Horizon also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). Tiny Trains's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Tiny Trains sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Murky Horizon asks for nothing beyond the download.
Murky Horizon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Trains has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Trains | Murky Horizon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Murat Yilmaz | SerenityMindTech LLC. |
Customer experience
Tiny Trains
Murky Horizon
In-app purchases
Tiny Trains
- Full Puzzle Pack$5.99
Murky Horizon
No in-app purchases
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