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Iron Rails – A Railway Strategy Game for the Commodore Amiga

All aboard! Iron Rails is a railway strategy game exclusively for the Commodore Amiga, inspired by the classic board game genre of route-building and destination racing.

Take command of your railway empire across a sprawling map of North America. Collect train cards, claim routes between cities, and secretly complete destination tickets before your rivals do. Every decision matters — do you claim that key route now, or hold your cards for a longer, higher-scoring connection?

Features:

  • 2–5 players with fully playable CPU opponents at Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty
  • Complete North America map with 36 cities and over 100 routes
  • Three CPU difficulty levels with strategic AI that plans ticket routes, blocks opponents, and adapts its play style
  • Destination ticket system with 30 unique routes across the continent
  • Longest route bonus scoring
  • Full end-game scoring breakdown with per-player detail screens
  • Route map showing all claimed routes at game end
  • Free to play and share!

Requirements:

  • Commodore Amiga
  • Kickstart 2.04 + 
  • PAL Screen Mode
  • Mouse required

Iron Rails is developed by CopperByte Games.

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, Android
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorCopperByte Games
GenreStrategy, Card Game
TagsAmiga, Board Game, fs-uae, iron-rails, Multiplayer, Railroad, ticket-to-ride, train, winuae
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse
MultiplayerLocal multiplayer
Player count1 - 5

Download

Download
IronRails.adf 880 kB
Download
IronRailsV1.1-WHDL.lha 458 kB

Install instructions

Requires at minimum Kickstart 2.04, PAL screen.

The ADF is bootable!

The game can also be installed and run directly in Amiga Workbench by copying all files to a single folder and executing the program (IronRails.exe) from Shell.

Hope you enjoy the game - Thanks for downloading!

Development log

Comments

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Great new strategy game. I added it to my video along with other games released in May. If you want, you can vote for the best games of the month in the comments of the video, thanks.

It looks like you made a mistake, your latest ADF file is an empty disk...

Thanks for letting me know! The .ADF file has been updated! Enjoy!

Thank you for your fast reply!

Iron Rails is now version 1.1! Please take a look at the development log to see all the fixes I’ve made. Thanks so much for all your feedback and support!

Seems like an interesting strategy game, but it's still struggling with some technical issues. With a standard ECS configuration, the extreme mouse lag makes it virtually unplayable, and even with a high-end 68060 setup, it's very sluggish. Furthermore, the recommended configuration causes problems with the flickering menu on the title screen (see our video). A corresponding update is absolutely necessary. Our German-language review can be found at 02:46:06. English subtitles are also available. Subscription to our YouTube and Twitch channel is welcome. 🙂

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Thank you for the update and comments. I will be working on the mouse issues and hopefully figuring out the menu flashing issue also. It’s reviews like this that help me understand what some users may be experiencing on different types of Amiga hardware. Thanks again!

Neat!!

Thanks! :)

Nice game!

Thank you!

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Is this somewhat inspired by Ticket to Ride? I love that boardgame! Very cool job! Do you plan to add other boards?

Thanks, I have not thought about it, but now that you mention it…. I just might!

very good

Thank you!