Tiny Rails

Keeps asking to consent to taking my data even after I’ve done it, pretty annoying to turn them off each time I open the app.

A once great game that now requires you to watch ads to progress. Ruining the experience for players, they should go back to the previous game design a few years ago.

I used to adore this game SO so much, it was absolutely brilliant. Fun and rewarding gameplay loop, nice visuals etc etc. But now that’s all gone I preface by saying that I understand free games need an income stream of some kind to keep afloat, I’m totally aware of that. Originally it was fine, you had the option to watch ads and in return you’d get some good stuff, so I’d actually watch them! Now you get literal pittance, mere scraps from watching them, meaning there’s no point. But it’s not like it matters since there’s now giant billboards along the trail and at stations that really take you out of the 64 bit art style so you have to see ads anyways. The gameplay loop is also not rewarding at all anymore either. They nerfed rewards harder than rockstar did with red dead online. Everything is a colossal grind for barely any reward. You get 3 gems for completing each area, meaning you could complete the ENTIRE map and still not be able to afford anything at all, watching ads gets you 1-2 when you actually receive the option (very rarely) and coin rewards have gone down meaning you need to grind for AGES in the late game to get upgrades. Completing orders at stations also got nerfed so they give you barely anything either. All of this is designed to push you towards either purchasing gem packs OR subscribing to the monthly VIP program since the game is a slog without either The UI is completely busted. They haven’t updated it for any phone past the iPhone 10 meaning half the icons are cut off and it just looks a mess, the icon for when you get a new train car became busted years ago so they just said “screw it” and just poorly slapped “new” in a helvetica font and didn’t bother syncing up the animation either, all the menus just randomly bug out too. The whole thing is just a state And if that wasn’t enough money for them, they’re REALLY desperate for your user data. Like if you don’t agree to give it to them they’ll keep on asking you multiple times a day until you cave and agree or delete the app. Seriously pretty much every time I booted up the game it asked me if they could use my data and every time I said no so they kept on asking in hopes they’d annoy me into saying yes which is quite frankly disgusting and a predatory business practice There’s a fine line between supporting a good app and cash grab. This game has become the most egregious one I’ve seen in a long long time, there was nothing wrong with the old way, hell I was more welcome to the idea of watching some ads or people paying for stuff because they got a decent experience out of it. Y’all need to do better