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Railflow

Build a tiny railway company that lives on the edge of your desktop! Place trains, deliver resources, grow bustling towns, and expand an ever-evolving rail network in this cozy desktop companion management game.

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Mina Pêcheux
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Mina Pêcheux
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About the Game

Meet Railflow, a cozy desktop companion where a tiny railway world quietly grows alongside your daily life!

Place trains on your network, watch them automatically transport resources between stations, help towns prosper, and slowly turn a humble railway into a thriving transportation empire - hopefully, while keeping enough focus to do some of your real work, too 😉

'Cause whether you're working, studying or simply browsing the web, your little trains will happily keep rolling in the corner of your desktop...

Start with just a couple of stations and a single train.

As your towns receive the resources they need, they'll reward you with coins and attract new stations to your network. New collectors, factories, warehouses and cities will appear automatically, each bringing new opportunities... but also new logistical challenges.

Your trains come with their own onboard AI and automatically choose where to transport resources - so you can just lay back and enjoy it as an idler if you feel like it!

But although your role here isn't to micromanage every trip, you'll still need to grow the network over time 😉

  • ⚙️ Place new trains on the network

  • ⭐️ Upgrade their speed and cargo capacity

  • 💰 Meet towns' demands to earn coins and unlock an ever-growing railway

Railflow is designed to comfortably live beside your other applications.

Stick it to any edge of your screen, resize it to your liking, and check in whenever you want. Spend thirty seconds placing a few new trains, then return to your work while your miniature railway keeps bustling along.

No pressure. No deadlines.

Just tiny trains doing important tiny train things.

  • 😀 A relaxing desktop companion built around trains

  • 🌍 An ever-expanding procedural railway network

  • 📦 Automatic resource transportation and production chains

  • 🏙️ Growing cities with increasingly complex demands

  • ⚙️ Train upgrades and long-term progression

  • 🖥️ Fully resizable and dockable to any side of your screen

  • 🤖 A friendly little robot named Blippy Blip to help you get started

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