2025 · City Builder · Sandbox · Trains
How long isIslands & Trains?
by Akos Makovics
3 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 1 hour and 6 hours
Short for a city builder: 3 hours for the typical player, shorter than 166 of 172 city builders here.
82% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
Do the first two hours of Islands & Trains tell you?
In the first two hours82%recommend it
After that95%recommend it
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 3 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 1 hour and 6 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 616 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
42% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 82% of those recommend it. After the window, 95% do.
When would you get there?
3days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 3 hours on Saturday, October 24.
Half of its reviewers had played between 1 and 6 hours: tonight to Oct 27 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Islands & Trains worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Islands & Trains
- Steam list price, US
- $6.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 3 h
- city builder rate
- $2.00/h
- 3 h at that rate
- $6
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Islands & Trains worth it? Yes.
Fair price
About what a typical city builder charges: $2.33 an hour
Loved
95% recommend it after the refund windowmost city builders: 87%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $6.99, the typical player's 3 hours come to $2.33 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of Islands & Trains costs about what the typical one of 172 city builders here charges $2.00.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (city builders) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Would you like Islands & Trains?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Islands & Trains, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Islands & Trains would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
Games like Islands & Trains
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Islands & Trains: a kind of game it is that Islands & Trains is not, a feature its tags carry that Islands & Trains's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.