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Rail Guard

Expand your railway, automate production, build powerful defenses, and protect your tracks from relentless enemies in this incremental idle tower defense game.

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Pixelifact
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Pixelifact
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About the Game

Protect the Rails. Expand Your Frontier. Survive the Endless Horde.

Your railway is the heart of your settlement and the creatures know it.

Relentless enemies continuously attack your tracks, pushing them closer to your headquarters. If the rails are forced all the way back, your base falls.

Expand your railway, gather resources, automate production, build defenses, and adapt your strategy to survive ever-growing enemy waves.

Expand Your Railway

Lay new tracks to claim more land and unlock valuable resources.

A larger railway means more space for buildings, more resources to collect, and more opportunities to grow but it also creates a larger network to defend.

  • Gather Resources & Build Automation

Harvest Wood, Stone, Coal, Silver, and Gold from the land inside your railway.

Construct specialized buildings to process resources automatically while your train continuously travels the tracks, collecting everything you've built.

  • Build Your Railway Fortress

Carefully place production buildings and defensive structures within your railway network.

Optimize your layout to maximize efficiency and keep your economy growing.

Defend the Rails


Enemies never stop coming.

They constantly attack your railway, pushing the tracks toward your headquarters. Equip your train with powerful turrets, build defensive towers, and reinforce your railway before it's too late.

  • Choose a New Perk Every Day

At the end of each day, choose one of three random perk cards that permanently improve your run.

Specialize your strategy by upgrading:

Train Speed

Turret Damage

Attack Speed

Rail Durability

Resource Production

Building Costs

  • Legendary Upgrades

Every run offers different perk combinations, encouraging new builds and strategies every time you play.

Grow. Defend. Adapt.

Expand your territory, automate your economy, strengthen your defenses, and discover powerful perk combinations as enemy pressure increases.

How long can you keep your railway alive?

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