Comparison

Cross Tracks! vs Tinrail

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

Head to head
About

Cross Tracks!

A fast-paced railway puzzle game where players lay tracks to connect routes and guide trains safely to their destinations. It starts simple but quickly escalates into complex networks requiring strategic planning to overcome tricky crossings and tight spaces.

Highlights
  • Lay tracks
  • Connect routes
  • Guide trains
  • Challenging puzzles
  • Strategic planning
  • Fast-paced gameplay
Features
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Jump on board with Cross Tracks!, a fast-paced railway puzzle game where every move matters. Lay tracks, connect the route, and guide each train safely to its destination. What starts simple soon becomes a network of tricky crossings, tight spaces, and increasingly challenging puzzles that will put your planning skills to the test. Can you find the right route and keep everything on track?

About

Tinrail

Features
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Draw a railway with one finger and watch tiny trains bring a miniature countryside to life. Tinrail is a calm transit puzzle. Villages sprout across a small landscape, and each one fills up with parcels and passengers bound for somewhere else. Drag from a village to lay rail, tap to send out a locomotive, and the trains do the rest: they pick up, deliver and find their own way around your network. THE PUZZLE IS THE NETWORK Each stretch of track holds one train at a time, so a line that works with one engine can jam with three. Add junctions to give trains another way round, loops to keep traffic flowing, bridges to cross the river and tunnels to cut through the hills. Demolishing track gives most of it back, so redesigning is always an option. The countryside keeps growing. New land opens up, new villages appear, and yesterday's tidy line becomes today's bottleneck. Keep every village from overcrowding for as long as you can. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY - Levels: 1,000 boards, each with a delivery target. Pass it, then keep going to set your best. - Weekly Run: one countryside per week, the same for every player. - Daily: a fresh board every day. - Zen Garden: no fail state. Villages wait patiently while you build for the fun of it. SMALL TOUCHES - Follow a train from above, or ride along behind the engine at track level. - Pick your train colors. - Sound, music and haptics each have their own setting. - No account and no sign-in. ADS AND PURCHASES, PLAINLY Tinrail is free and supported by ads: a banner at the bottom of the screen and an occasional full-screen ad between runs. A short optional ad can also top up your rails, bridges, junctions or tunnels when you run low. One purchase, Remove Ads, removes the banner and the between-run ads for good. Other optional purchases: Speed Control (2x and 3x game speed), a Golden Locomotive color, and a tip jar for the studio. Made by Rusty Latch Games, a tiny independent studio. Feedback is welcome: support@rustylatchgames.com

Screenshots

Cross Tracks!4 screens
Tinrail4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cross Tracks! at none against Tinrail's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tinrail sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Cross Tracks! asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Cross Tracks! versus Tinrail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCross Tracks!Tinrail
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB81 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPodcrashRusty Latch Games LLC

In-app purchases

None

Cross Tracks!

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Tinrail

One-time4
  • Tip the Engineer$0.99
  • Golden Locomotive$1.99
  • Speed Control$2.99
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  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is Cross Tracks! free?
Cross Tracks! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tinrail free?
Tinrail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cross Tracks! or Tinrail have ads?
Both Cross Tracks! and Tinrail show ads.

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