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Ride the Rails
45m - 60m
2 - 5 Players
Ages 12+
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The station is jam-packed full of excited people ready to ride the rails. Mason is off to Chicago, Ashley to Denver, and Hunter is going all the way to San Francisco. The train arrives, and passengers start detraining the sleeper cars with the red-capped porters expertly loading their luggage onto the baggage carts. Enthusiastic travelers crowd the doors, anxiously anticipating their adventure cruising across America in style!
In Ride the Rails, you will invest in railroad companies, build railway track across the United States, and deliver passengers to as many cities as possible. Each round, a new railroad company is introduced to the game, and each railroad company has its own special placement rules! Deliver passengers to as many cities as possible to earn the most points. Be cautious in your travels as shareholders of railroads that you use will also earn points!
Ride the Rails is the second title in the Iron Rail series by Capstone Games.
—description from the publisher
| Ages | 12+ |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players |
| Play Time | 45m – 60m |
| Designer | John Bohrer |
| Mechanics | Network and Route Building, Pick-up and Deliver, Stock Holding |
| Theme | Economic, Trains, Transportation |
| Publisher | Capstone Games |
Abdul
A fun shared incentives game, as long as someone else is doing the end of round scoring calculations. Might be a bit samey on subsequent plays, when compared to other cube rails games.
DroppEcho
It's like the rail building and cube delivery portion of Age Of Steam, minus everything else. It's 100% open information and math. Moving the passengers can be a little fiddly to track but necessary. Enjoyable but not the type of train game that I would normally default to, although it has merits for its simplicity and accessibility. Super nice production, graphic design, and an excellent price point. The variants on different maps also harkens back to Age Of Steam.
Andy Parsons
One of those Winsome designs that strips the train game down to its barest essentials. Six times everyone chooses a share, places five sections of track, then transports one passenger, trying to make the greatest use of networks they have shares in. The network building and passenger moving are pretty straightforward; the choice of shares is where the critical decisions lie. One misjudgment and you’ve lost. As you might expect, Ride the Rails plays fast and smooth. That’s except for the mathy scoring. It’s an OK game, I just wish there were a bit more meat on these bones. I am a fan of Ian O’Toole’s artwork for Capstone’s Iron Rail series and this box lid is the pick of the bunch. The map is rather drab, though functional. There are some good player aids around its edges. However, there are some peculiar colour choices. Was it necessary to have player colours in two shades of pink and a third identical to one of the companies? Production quality is decent.