Railway Islands – Puzzle – Review

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Every journey leads somewhere and in Railway Islands that journey leads to the blue tunnel, eventually. Our trusty little train emerges and you’ll have to spin and swap tiles to create a path to complete each level.

Railway Islands is a puzzle game which contains 50 base levels of increasing difficulty tasking you with creating a route from the red start tunnel to the blue end tunnel for your train to take. To make things more difficult you’ll have to pick up a few supplies on your travels, so it’s imperative to make sure you pass each station to collect all available items for that level.

Each level is made up from a collection of hexagonal tiles, the start and end points (tunnels) are fixed in place, as are any stations and scenery such as trees, but any track pieces can be swapped with another segment of track on the play field or rotated using the left or right triggers. The overall theme changes depending on the season, but the core pieces and their functionality always remains the same.

Starting in Summertime, the trees are green and you’ll initially find it pretty simple with only a few pieces in play, needing to be rotated or swapped around to make a route for your train. Things do start to get a little more complicated, as you’re tasked with a few more varied track pieces such as junctions splitting one track into two, cross roads and eventually bridges.

The target for each level remains the same, swap the tiles, create a route past every station and get your train to that blue tunnel, and while some maps look really confusing when you first start and everythings mixed up, but once you’ve used a little common sense and moved straight pieces and curves to the obvious locations (where a tile only has 2 adjacent