Model Railroad Set vs ModelRailway Millionaire Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Model Railroad Set
Experience the nostalgic joy of a virtual model train set. Drive trains on pre-made or shared layouts, control speed, honk the horn, and operate switches. Capture and share snapshots of your railway adventures.
- Drive trains on built-in layouts
- Operate switches and control speed
- Multiple camera angles
- Take and share snapshots
- Build custom train layouts
- Share layouts via email
- Animated scenery elements
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Relive the childhood joy of playing with a virtual model train set. Free version allows driving the train on our several built-in layouts or any that you receive via email from friends. Move the train forwards and backwards, faster or slower. Honk the horn. Operate upcoming switches. Instantly change between multiple camera angles to view and follow the train. Easily take in game snapshots to share via text, email, or social media. Purchase the optional Train Builder Kit to build your own train layout and share it via email with your friends. Others only need the free version and your email. Create your own model railroad from our extensive menu of train cars, track pieces, roadways, automobiles, rivers, buildings, trees and other items. Automobiles automatically follow the roadway, and stop at train crossings. Windmills and Merry Go Rounds are animated. Purchase the Train Builder Kit as an In-App purchase on either iOS or Apple TV and use on both. Layouts are stored in the cloud and accessible from both. Email your layout (using iOS version) to a friend and they can easily download the free version to play. They can later purchase the Train Builder Kit to add additional features themselves. Fun for all ages. Universal App - supports all iPhone and iPad models, including standard and Retina displays. Works with iOS 6, 7, 8 or 9.
ModelRailway Millionaire Light
Design and manage a miniature railway empire. Build intricate track layouts, populate them with detailed 3D models, and develop a thriving economy to expand your holdings. This free version offers a taste of the full simulation experience.
- Customizable terrain editing
- Extensive 3D model library
- Intuitive track layout creation
- Automated train operations
- City building and population management
- Economic simulation and resource management
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This game is a mix of model railway and economic simulation. You can select the size of your layout and edit the terrain by painting it using different textures and creating hills, rivers, lakes, platforms, slopes, or select different premade terrain types. Then populate the layout with beautiful 3D models of engines, wagons, buildings, plants etc., but only as you wallet - which is limited in is this free version - enables to buy the new items. It is very important to build a working economics from the beginning, so that your money resources never run out. Creating the track layout is very easy with the self explaining menus, which offer always only the possible actions during the use. The track can climb up to the hills or go through them with tunnels. The length of the track is practically unlimited. You can add as many switches as you want, only your fantasy limits the complexity. Put engines and wagons on the built track and just push them with your finger, and they start to move. They will travel the prepared track and stop automatically at the placed industrial buildings and stations. The trains will deliver automatically food, steel and oil to the city stations, and if your cities are big enough you can transport passengers between them. If you build big cities, deliver enough food, steel and oil, and offer transportation to the city inhabitants, your game money may increase till the limits of this free version.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ModelRailway Millionaire Light at 55% against Model Railroad Set's 11%. ModelRailway Millionaire Light also leads on rating (3.4 vs 2.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Model Railroad Set's advantage is ratings volume (74 vs 22) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 12.0). On price, 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. Model Railroad Set sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ModelRailway Millionaire Light asks for nothing beyond the download.
ModelRailway Millionaire Light holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 74 and 22 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Model Railroad Set's written reviews are positive against 55% of ModelRailway Millionaire Light's.
| Parameter | Model Railroad Set | ModelRailway Millionaire Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (74 ratings) | 3.4 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.1% of reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 223 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Magnin & Associates | rbskft |
Customer experience
Model Railroad Set
ModelRailway Millionaire Light
Bugs and requests
Model Railroad Set
Reported bugs
10 issues- Won't take to the actual game
- Zoomed in, out of shape, glitched
- Buttons off screen
- Freezes phone
- Cannot be shut down, requires reboot
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- Items disappear when playing
- Tracks don't meet
- Purchase button does nothing
- Crashes frequently
- Tracks don't always connect
Requested features
8 requests- Make the game free to build
- Connect roads, waterways, and railways
- Better overall design
- Improve graphics
- Make own track functionality
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- Add hills
- List add-on details and prices clearly
- Combine building bits for custom creations
ModelRailway Millionaire Light
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Model Railroad Set
- Train Builder Kit$3.99
ModelRailway Millionaire Light
No in-app purchases
Questions
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