Railway Boom Review – Choo choose a great new game

Railway Boom's hook, its something special, its little bit of ooh-la-la, is the bidding mechanism that underpins nearly everything that happens.
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Railway Boom's hook, its something special, its little bit of ooh-la-la, is the bidding mechanism that underpins nearly everything that happens.

Over the course of a game, you're going to make seven railway lines with twelve cards. No more, no less.

In Isle of Trains: All Aboard, you won't be building tracks or buying and selling shares like in my other favourite choo-choo games. This is about the trains!

A train game with a share and investment structure, but not too dense, and you still get to play with tiny trains?

Did you wake up today, and suddenly have the urge to run a railway in the Philippines? No? What if I told you the railways are on Luzon, the largest and most-populous of the Philippine islands? Yeah, I knew it, I knew that'd swing it for you.

Ride The Rails, from Capstone Games, takes the 'invest in a train company' formula and boils it down into a much simpler, quicker game. It's from a sub-genre known as Cube Rails, and it's number 2 in Capstone's Iron Rail series