Dire Wolf Digital2025Paul Dennen

Lightning Train

7.2BGG rating · 756 ratings
1–4Players
60–120 minPlay time
13+Ages
3.0 / 5Medium-heavy
$55.00
Wulf Pack price  $52.25 Members save 5%
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Is it for your table?

Players
1–4players

Plays solo, or with up to 4 at the table.

Play time
60–120min
01 hr2 hr3 hr4 hr+

A full game night, start to finish.

Weight
Medium-heavy

Plenty to chew on. Expect a rules walkthrough first. (3.0 / 5 on BGG)

Ages
13+years

Recommended for teens and adults.

Has a solo modeDeck building

About the game

Lightning Train is a board game from Dire Wolf Digital, designed by Paul Dennen (2025). It plays 1–4 players in 60–120 minutes, for ages 13+. BoardGameGeek players rate it 7.2 out of 10 and call it medium-heavy (3.0 / 5 weight).

Steer your railway company through a land of strategic opportunity in the bag-building train game Lightning Train.

Build your bag to improve your company's resources, then place your chips to open stations and train lines across eight regions of North America. There's a fortune to be made by delivering goods to the cities that need them...but will you work together, or look to cut out the competition? Which stations do you need to secure a route to victory? How can the powerful lightning trains accelerate you past your rivals?

Purchasing new chips opens up new strategic opportunities – but always at a cost! – and getting the most value out of the deliveries available requires balance and careful planning.

Contents:

  • Double-sided game board
  • 31 Wood Station Markers
  • 4 Wooden Score Markers
  • 4 Company Bags
  • 4 Player Boards
  • 4 Go Public Boards
  • 4 Industrialize Boards
  • 82 Cards
  • 15 Large Production Cards
  • Over 400 Punch Tokens
  • 1 Die
  • 4 Builder Tokens
  • Rulebook

Details

Designer
Paul Dennen
Themes
Trains
Published
2025
SKU
DWD10000
Ratings, player counts, play time and weight are from BoardGameGeek.

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