Railroad Tiles: Energy Expansion
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7.4

Expansion for Railroad Tiles

Railroad Tiles: Energy Expansion

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  • 30 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 2.3/5

Rules assistant for Railroad Tiles: Energy Expansion

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Railroad Tiles: Energy Expansion is an expansion for Railroad Tiles released in 2025 for 1–4 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Lorenzo Silva and Hjalmar Hach and its main mechanics are Tile Placement, Pattern Building, and Connections.

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About the game

Your goal is to create a power grid by building Wind Turbines and using Energy Cables to connect them to Town tiles and bring them energy. Wind Turbines have their own pin points, and can be placed by using any Placement token as a wild card, instead of placing the corresponding standard pawn, like gondolas in the Canals Expansion and Lookout Towers in the Forest Expansion. You will need to use Energy Cables to connect the Wind Turbines you have built to the Town tiles you placed. Energy Cables can be thought of as an additional kind of "route"... but they have a peculiarity: they don't run across the middle of the sides of tiles, like railways and highways, but rather across their corners. This adds a whole new layer to your strategies, because while managing the network of cables can complicate things for you, bringing one to the right corner can allow you to connect three tiles to the power grid in one go! Wind Turbines don't score any point when you build them, but at the end of the game, each of your Town tiles scores 1 point for each 2 Wind Turbines it is connected to. Placing Town tiles smartly and sending Energy Cables to the right corners in order to maximize the Town tiles powered by the least amount of cables is the key to score a lot of points. Additionally, the Energy Expansion comes with a few Objectives as well: for example, the Solar Farm want to be connected to Energy Cables on all 4 corners, while the Casino must have at least 2 electrified Town tiles around it. —description from the publisher

Editions

  • Railroad Tiles: Energy ExpansionenHorrible Guild2025
  • Дорожные работы: ЭнергияruGaGa Games, Horrible Guild2026
  • Railroad Tiles: Espansione EnergiaitCranio Creations2025

Questions and answers

Railroad Tiles: Energy Expansion supports 1–4 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.