Railways of the World — board game details

About the game

What is Railways of the World

Railways of the World (2009) is the new edition of the base game for Eagle Games' popular Railways of the World series, first published as Railroad Tycoon in 2005. It reimplements the original game with several improvements.

Revisit the early days of the Age of Steam as you begin with a locomotive (the venerable John Bull, the first locomotive to run in North America) and a vision (your Tycoon "mission" card). From there, build your budding railroad network into a vast empire. Connect New York to Chicago, earn the most money, develop bigger and faster locomotives and maybe even span North America and build the Transcontinental Railway!

Multiple expansions featuring different maps are available. Railways of the World is the new base game for the system and includes the engine placards, railroad tiles, train tokens, money, bonds, and other items that are needed in almost all the Railways of the World series. A gameboard depicting the eastern half of the United States is included in the base game, as well as a mounted map of Mexico.

This game is preceded by the designer's other Winsome train games: Age of Steam, Australian Railways, Volldampf, New England Railways, Veld Spoorweg, Lancashire Railways, and Ferrocarriles Pampas. Railroad Tycoon was the result of a collaboration with Glenn Drover, in which the mechanics and game-play of Martin Wallace's Age of Steam were simplified and streamlined and attractive over-produced components were added, in order to make Railroad Tycoon more appealing to less hardcore gamers and more accessible to a wider audience.

Specs

Game details

Players: 2–6
Age: +10
Duration: 120 min
Difficulty: Heavy
Type: Board game
Year: 2005
Mechanics: Action Points · Connections · End Game Bonuses
Categories: Trains · Transportation · Video Game Theme
Designer: Martin Wallace · Glenn Drover
Publisher: Eagle-Gryphon Games · Winsome Games · Edge Entertainment

Images

Railways of the World gallery

Community data

Railways of the World on Meeplay

See what the Meeplay community plays and thinks about Railways of the World, and add your own plays to the record.

133Plays logged

32Own it in their collection

7.9Average rating

Find Railways of the World players

Reviews

What the community says about Railways of the World

J

Juanmanuca_28/10

+ europe

D

David_Trovador9/10

Juego de pick & delivery de trenes, variante de Wallace, similar al Railes / Age of Steam. Un pelín más ligero y mucho mejor acabado. Tanto, que está sobreproducido xD. + Expansiones: -Europa & -Gran Bretaña (con modo acciones*) * No de acciones de turno, no, de acciones de bolsa. No, de bolsa de cubitos no! de... déjemoslo estar que la economía para tí es una ciencia medioambiental...) Adquirido del gran Yiyeru. Compañero lúdico, olvida al resto de humanidad que no te entiende, eso ha sucedido siempre con los grandes genios! xD PD: A mi también me miran mal por mis chorradas de caerse de

D

davidarribas7/10

Vendido por que adquirí la segunda versión del juego Railways of the World. ===== Sencillo, divertido y relativamente corto, mucho mas azaroso y menos exigente que sus hermanos Steam. RotW sirve de trampolín a los juegos de trenes, el azar de los eventos y las cartas de operaciones puede hacer que los jugadores con menos posibilidades no se queden atrás. A mi me parece un juego muy divertido y mucho mas agradable que el sesudo y exigente Age of Steam.

Same family