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Best 1 1830: Railways and Robber Barons

1830: Railways and Robber Barons is a seminal tabletop board game released in 1986 by The Avalon Hill Game Co. Designed by Bruce T. Shelley, it pioneered the 18xx series of train games, which combine aggressive stock market manipulation with the physical building of railway networks. Players invest...

2 Age of Steam

Age of Steam is a railroad-themed economic strategy board game designed by Martin Wallace and first published in 2002 by Warfrog Games. Players take on the roles of railroad entrepreneurs, competing to build track networks and deliver goods between cities on various maps representing different geogr...

3 18Chesapeake

18Chesapeake is a board game designed by Scott Petersen that serves as an accessible introduction to the complex 18xx series, featuring stock trading and railway network building.

4 Imperial Steam

Imperial Steam is a heavy economic board game designed by Alexander Huemer where players build railway networks and industries in Austria-Hungary during a highly competitive era.

5 Steam: Rails to Riches

Steam: Rails to Riches is a 2009 board game by Martin Wallace that refines his earlier railway mechanics, offering a slightly more accessible economic experience than Age of Steam.

6 Railbound
Railbound

Railbound is a 2022 puzzle game developed by the Polish studio Afterburn. Players place, connect, and adjust railway tracks so numbered carriages reach a locomotive in the correct order, with later stages adding tunnels, switches, barriers, and other routing complications. Its compact levels, illust...

Train Simulator INDIE Puzzle Mobile PC Trains Afterburn
7 Railways
Railways

Railways is a 2020 puzzle game by Portuguese studio Nerd Monkeys in which players manage switches and timing to route trains safely through compact networks.

Puzzle Game Minimalist INDIE Trains Route Building Infinity Games
8 Pocket Trains

Pocket Trains is a mobile railway management game developed by NimbleBit and released for iOS in 2013. As a spiritual successor to NimbleBit's earlier game Pocket Planes, it tasks players with building a cargo rail network across maps modeled on real-world regions, transporting goods between cities...

9 Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is a Japanese post-apocalyptic anime television series produced by Wit Studio and directed by Tetsuro Araki, premiering in 2016. Set during an industrial revolution, the story follows humanity's struggle for survival against undead creatures known as Kabane aboard heavi...

10 Conduct THIS!

Conduct THIS! is an action-puzzle game developed by Northplay in 2017, requiring players to control railway switches to prevent train collisions and transport passengers.

11 ThinkFun Railroad Rush Hour

Railroad Rush Hour is a transportation-themed spin-off of the classic ThinkFun logic puzzle where players slide locomotives and cargo trains to clear a specified route.

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