2020Paul Dennen
- Videos
- 185
- Creators
- 109
Mainly reviews and playthroughs
1 - 4 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight
Lightning Train
2025Paul Dennen
- Videos
- 25
- Creators
- 19
Mainly reviews. Lightning Train is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 13 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 6 unboxings, and 1 other video.
1 - 4 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
From BoardGameGeek
All aboard the Lightning Train! Steer your railway company through a land of strategic opportunity in Lightning Train, a new bag-building train game from the creators of Clank! and Dune: Imperium. 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? All aboard the Lightning Train! Bag-building train strategy! Lightning Train is a bag-builder that plays like a deck-builder, with mechanically-unique chips that give you changing options from round to round. The chips you acquire will shape your long-term strategy, so forward-thinking and clever planning are necessary to find a path to victory. Components Includes Double-sided game board 31 wooden station markers 4 player boards 82 cards 400+ tokens rulebook
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Which Lightning Train video should I watch?
Lightning Train has 25 videos from 19 creators: 13 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 6 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2025 to July 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Lightning Train How to Play & Strategy Tips" by Rolling Doubles, which runs 48 min. For a quicker teach, "OFPG - Lightning Train Preview (All Aboard!)" by Our Family Plays Games runs 13 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Lightning Train Board Game Review" by Game Boy Geek. 12 creators have reviewed it.
If you like it, try Dune: Imperium, Dune: Imperium – Uprising, Clank!: Catacombs and Dune: Imperium – Rise of Ix, also by Paul Dennen. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2025.
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About Lightning Train
From BoardGameGeek:
All aboard the Lightning Train! Steer your railway company through a land of strategic opportunity in Lightning Train, a new bag-building train game from the creators of Clank! and Dune: Imperium. 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? All aboard the Lightning Train! Bag-building train strategy! Lightning Train is a bag-builder that plays like a deck-builder, with mechanically-unique chips that give you changing options from round to round. The chips you acquire will shape your long-term strategy, so forward-thinking and clever planning are necessary to find a path to victory. Components Includes Double-sided game board 31 wooden station markers 4 player boards 82 cards 400+ tokens rulebook
Designer
Paul Dennen
Artists
Clay Brooks, Derek Herring, Kenan Jackson, Raul Ramos
Publisher
Dire Wolf
Categories
Trains
Mechanics