Lightning Train Game Review

From the moment I heard the title Lightning Train, I knew that I wanted to play it. I'm the kind of guy who judges game boxes by the cover, and the image of a steam locomotive riding from (or with?) a raging thunderstorm sparked an immediate interest for me. It wasn't until later that I found out the designer was Paul Dennen, responsible for the Clank! series of games. Does the gameplay match the perceived awesomeness from the package? Let's find out.

Lightning Train Overview

Lightning Train is a bag-builder game, using tiles instead of the cards that you might find in a traditional deck-building game like Clank!. Players take turns pulling tiles from their bag each turn, drawing contracts, money, and train cars to be spent on the various actions for their company. The goal is to score the most points by delivering goods across the shared rail network and—hopefully—contributing towards the transcontinental railroad, which grants a bevy of points to the companies that do so.

Each turn consists of two phases. In the Operations Phase, players can build rail lines using train tiles, make deliveries across completed lines, play any Action or Upgrade cards, spend their money, and assign trains to the rail yard to take a slew of other actions. Once a player has exhausted…

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