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- Price: $0.99 (Get it)
- Version: 1.1
- Official Site: Floor 84 Games
“Oh no! What have you done?”
You’ll undoubtedly be hearing this again and again in Railroad Madness, the ‘traffic management’ game from Floor 84. It’s the fail state — a foppish conductor flailing his hands about, gasping in horror at the collision of trains you’ve caused, leaving fruit or bodies or whatever strewn violently across the tracks.
If a bit overstated, it’s at least testament to PopCap’s method of rewarding casual gamers. A gradual learning curve sees the player doing little of consequence or real skill, acclimating to the difficulty of something not all that difficult and liberally doling out pats on the back in heaps of rainbows. It works.
And this is the biggest failing of Railroad Madness. Tasked with managing trains down a series of vertically crisscrossing tracks, you’re to guide them into one of two stations, a cargo and a passenger station. Failure to guide a train into the proper station results in a penalty, while crashing them into each other sees the aforementioned conductor throwing a fit and you restarting your game.
