Simple Trains

About Simple Trains

Simple Trains is a small strategy game by ElectronDust and Simurai, released on Steam in June 2024 for Windows. Its clean, flat look and drag-and-drop controls will feel familiar to anyone who has played Mini Metro, but the focus is on balancing trains, wagons and money.

Stations appear on the map and passengers wait at them. You drag routes from station to station, tie new stations into existing lines, and reroute as demand changes. Each passenger delivered earns money, which buys new trains and wagons; you can drag them between routes to keep the load balanced. Eight upgrades, from faster boarding and bigger stations to rocket wagons and cheaper trains, change your options, and a focus mode helps you read where passengers want to go.

The Daily Challenge is one map per day, built by the game's seed-based level generator and played by everyone. It has its own ranking table, and an August 2024 update added arrows to browse the ranking tables of past daily challenges. Each of the 14 regular levels also has a ranking table.

There are light and dark colour schemes. It suits players who like calm network-building puzzles and want one fresh map a day to compare against others.

How to play Simple Trains

1. Buy and install Simple Trains on Steam.
2. Open the Daily Challenge for today's map.
3. Drag routes between stations and add trains and wagons as passengers build up.
4. Keep the network running as long and as well as you can, then check the day's ranking table.

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Tips

• Spend early income on wagons for your busiest route before adding new lines.
• Use focus mode to see which stations need which passengers before rerouting.
• Rebalance trains between routes as demand shifts instead of always buying new ones.

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