Steam: Rails to Riches

This is a faithful adaptation of the board game by Martin Wallace. Steam is a slightly streamlined adaptation of the classic game Age of Steam. There is a very basic version and then the standard version which includes bidding for turn order and bonus actions. It’s a great little thinky game and you can get through a match pretty quick on the app against the AI. The puzzle changes each time you play as the cubes available change colours at set-up, requiring different long term and short term planning each game. The artwork looks identical to the tiles and boards in the board game from Mayfair.

It’s a turn base game and can be interesting to play. The AI is strong so you must strategize. There was no download problem. Gave three stars as after paying to get the game you have to pay additional money to get maps. That annoyed me. If it was free and you pay to get maps, that’s fine but when you pay upfront for a game, I expect no additional costs

3 hours and it hasn't downloaded yet.

With the release of version 2, Steam: Rail to Riches has matured into an excellent iOS game. The various AI persona provide real challenges and approach the game with different strategies. The game plays quickly and is always a great experience. Can't wait for the next version with online multiplayer.

I have gone through the tutorial, but when I try to run the game, it gets to the loading screen and then crashes. I have tried to visit the app developer's site, but it doesn't really offer the ability to notify them of issues. The only place to make comment is here. Here are my details - I'm running on an iPad mini with so 7.1. If they fix this issue I can play this version of this great game and hopefully write a better review.

I'm really enjoying this game, up there with ticket to ride.

Once the map issue was sorted, it download smoothly. Good implementation, nice graphics. Decent game, but at $10.99 AUD and STILL having IAP it's far too expensive

When you start the app, it says "Required maps are now downloading", and then sits on an extremely slow download dialog. Worse, your state doesn't seem to be preserved. I switched away from the app to look at my calendar, and when I went back to the app, it started the whole process all over again. I have no idea if the basic game is any good, and I may never get to play it if I have to leave the phone untouched for what I guess would be about 90 minutes just to get the maps downloaded. (This is on a fast connection, incidentally: the download from the app store took much less than a minute.)

I cannot progress in tutorial. I’ve now restarted it twice, but it requires me to perform an action that I cannot do. I also found a spelling error in the tutorial text. I want to like this game, but I still don’t know how to play because of the broken tutorial.

You cant invite friends so you need to leave a game open for them to join. The turn notifications also dont work. I was very encouraged when the multiplayer was first rolled out but have struggled to complete any games as friends need to be messaged in another medium that it is their turn