Railbound is a comfy track-bending puzzle game about a pair of dogs on a train journey around the world.
Connect and sever railways across different landscapes and help everyone reach their homes. Solve over 240 clever puzzles ranging from gentle slopes to twisted passageways.
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Railbound is a comfy track-bending puzzle game about a pair of dogs on a train journey around the world.
Connect and sever railways across different landscapes and help everyone reach their homes. Solve over 240 clever puzzles ranging from gentle slopes to twisted passageways.
BEND RAILS TO MAKE THE TRAINS GO ‘CHOO-CHOO’
Place, remove and reroute connections so that carriages safely connect to the locomotive. But, be careful and don’t make them run into each other!
240+ PUZZLES TO COMPLETE
Main levels will take you through a variety of locations at a relaxed pace. Forks along the road will lead you to spicy brain-teasers that’ll please even the most demanding players!
TRAIN-INSPIRED MECHANICS
Use tunnels to cover vast distances in an instant. Delay trains using well-timed railway barriers. Switch tracks to reroute cars in different directions. Pick up cute friends on the way and encounter even more challenges on your journey!
ART AND MUSIC FULL OF WHOLESOME VIBES
Across the game’s world enjoy our comic-book-inspired visuals and a relaxing original soundtrack by the team behind Golf Peaks and inbento.
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A series of stand alone puzzles that vary from 30 seconds to begin with, to "I-give-up". Fun to kill some spare time.
Doesn't come with instructions. You have to deduce the operation of tunnels, gates, and switches. Also has a neat hint feature if you are stumped, and a slow motion feature to better watch the cars scurry around.
Object is to line the cars up in proper numerical order behind the engine.
It's a puzzle game.
That's basically it. There's not a lot more to it than that. There have been puzzle games that have elevated the genre, but unfortunately, this is not one of them. It's not bad, but it's not particularly good either.
Your task is to reunite numbered carriages, in order, to the train engine, by placing rails. Each puzzle has a limited number of rails to play with, so solutions cannot be simply tenable, they must be efficient. The challenge is often in ensuring the carriages arrive in the proper order (without colliding), delaying carriages 3 and 2 with a longer track. In later puzzles, this can be done with the aid (or not) of boom gates and tack switches, which which can make your final solution tick along pleasantly, like a Rube Goldberg machine.
The game is quite pretty. The cel shaded look works well, and there's a cute story about a father-son pair of pups that's told through a sequence of drip-fed, hand-drawn "photos" at the end of each level set.
Ultimately, Railbound didn't really grab me, though this is not uncommon for me with puzzle games. I found the puzzles mechanical, and frequently (but not always) joyless. They weren't always easy, but after a little trial-and-error, I would usually say, "Yep, that worked", and move on without it making a lasting impression. It efficiently killed time, but I can't say I was satisfied at the end of play sessions.
I may be holding Railbound to an unrealistic standard here. The renaissance of indie gaming that online distribution has brought has spawned some truly terrific, memorable puzzle games.
Unfortunately for Railbound, one such game was a (now discontinued) mobile game called Trainyard - another train-inspired puzzle game. It featured a similar set of mechanics, but small differences lent the game far more depth, and the final solutions would come out so aesthetically pleasing that I would watch them on loop. This was what I was hoping for. It was not what I got.
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