The String Railway Collection Game Review

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Everything was lining up just right for my first play of The String Railway Collection. I shared with the Meeple Mountain team that I had picked up the game at Gen Con 2025, and one colleague was excited to hear what I thought because he had a good experience with the 2009 original. The original game, The String Railway, was designed by Hisashi Hayashi, the designer of one of my all-time faves, Yokohama. The new collection of games was published by CrowD Games, which has produced two very different five-star games in my collection: Bestiary of Sigillum and En Route.

I busted out the new collection on a recent game night; the new collection includes two games, String Railway and String Railway: Cubed. I started with the base game, then did a play of the Cubed variant.

To say that The String Railway Collection was a roller coaster would be an understatement. However, there is only one title in the box worth playing.

String Railway: Don’t

Two gaming friends came over for a game night recently and saw the box for The String Railway Collection on…

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