“This app is loaded with options to suffer through ads for various goodies. I have suffered through countless ads in this game only to have the bonus go unawarded. They still make money for my time. Where is my compensation?”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 429 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Train Station 2: Tycoon Sim
PIXEL FEDERATION, s.r.o.🚂 Welcome to Train Station 2: Rail Tycoon — the train simulator and railroad…
4.3 ★547,463 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
🚂 Welcome to Train Station 2: Rail Tycoon — the train simulator and railroad tycoon game where railway enthusiasts, train collectors, and tycoon game fans build a global empire. Step into the role of a railway mogul: lay your tracks, collect iconic locomotives, and run the smartest rail network in the world.
🎮 Train Station 2 blends a relaxing train simulator with deep tycoon strategy. Whether you love idle railroad management, classic train games, or city-building strategy games, your station is the start of an empire that spans the globe.
✨ KEY FEATURES
🚂 Collect & Upgrade Iconic Trains Discover the history of rail transport and collect the most popular steam trains, diesel locomotives, and freight engines. Upgrade every locomotive to unlock its full power and become a true railway tycoon.…
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.42.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.42.1, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 4.42.1, scanned 2026-10-01.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
1–2 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 429 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 429 reviews scanned)
In the app's own text: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Adverts are getting longer and longer. Used to be max 30 seconds now up to 2 minutes and often you can't get out of the advert without crashing the game.”
“Used to be a decent game but ads have ruined what was a way to extra coins, gems, time, etc. I have played this game religiously for the past few years and this is the first time that I truly can't stand it. You report it but they do…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.42.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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