Ticket to Ride® news & patch notes

Hello everyone, 

This is a progress update for the current status of Ticket to Ride’s online modes. 

Our team has implemented a number of measures with the aim of stabilising the online experience as much as possible while our third-party server provider works on the core issue impacting the service. Whilst these measures have delivered some improvements to the number of disconnections, the situation is still far from perfect, especially at peak times. We continue to work around the clock on a full resolution.

Until a permanent fix is available, we will keep the Star Loss Protection system active in order to shield players from losing Stars due to disconnection. While this may seem unnecessary for those of you who are not affected or for whom the problem is fixed, we want to keep this measure in place until the disconnection issue has been totally resolved. 

Thank you for your continued patience and support. We will continue to provide updates on the matter.

UPDATE 23rd March

Hello everyone, 

This is a progress update for the current status of Ticket to Ride’s online modes. 

Our team has implemented a number of measures with the aim of stablising the online experience as much as possible while our third-party server provider works on the core issue impacting the service. Whilst these measures have delivered some improvements to the number of disconnections, the situation is still far from perfect, especially at peak times. We continue to work around the clock on a full resolution.

Until a permanent fix is available, we will keep the Star Loss Protection system active in order to shield players from losing Stars due to disconnection. While this may seem unnecessary for those of you who are not affected or for whom the problem is fixed, we want to keep this measure in place until the disconnection issue has been totally resolved. 

Thank you for your continued patience and support. We will continue to provide updates on the matter.

Hello everyone, 

We’d like to update you on the current status of Ticket to Ride.

We are aware of ongoing server issues affecting Online Multiplayer and Local: Couch Play modes. Players may experience delays or disconnections while using these modes.

All other modes, including Single Player and Local: Pass & Play, are fully playable.

These issues are due to problems arising for our external server providers. While we don’t have an exact timeline for a full resolution, our team is working alongside our external server providers daily to restore functionality.

We understand how frustrating this can be, and we truly appreciate your support. We’ll provide another update next week with our progress.

Thank you for your patience.

🪙 Ticket to Ride: Poland is coming to the digital game. Take a sneak peek with us! 

The physical map’s Country Cards have been streamlined for Poland’s digital counterpart, becoming easy-to-use Country Coins! 

Each of Poland’s neighbouring countries has a small stack of Country Coins, which the game automatically adds to each country node at the start of the game. Each Country Coin has a number marked on it – this shows how many points that Coin is worth. 

When you connect two countries, you’ll get a Coin from each country (so long as that country has some left in its pile). 

At the end of the game, those Country Coins are added to your overall score, so be sure to link up as many countries as possible when you play. 

➕ Wishlist the Ticket to Ride: Poland Expansion to be notified when it launches!

⬛🟥🟨 Connect countries and carry Passengers in the new Ticket to Ride®: Germany Expansion!

The player-favourite Passenger mechanic is here, and best of all, the game takes care of all the fiddly setup for you. 

At the beginning of the game, 60 Passengers are sent to various cities across the board. When you claim a route, you’ll be able to choose Passengers to climb aboard. Collect the most Passengers of a single colour to earn an endgame bonus. Try to get the most Passengers in each colour to earn even more bonus points!

Plus, when you get the Ticket to Ride: Germany Expansion, you unlock two new characters, two trains, and two carriages: 

• Franziska Braun – An affluent atelier owner, Franziska Braun travels to fashion shows across Germany and its neighbouring countries seeking inspiration for her bespoke garments!

• Reinhardt Hofmann – As a world-renowned scholar, Reinhardt Hofmann is a frequent sight on German trains as he heads to top universities to give powerful talks to the next generation.

• Schlange – Swift and stable, the Schlange locomotive slides smoothly across the tracks at speed! You’ll get to your destination in no time. 

• Immer Zuverlässige – You’ll not find a more trustworthy train than the Immer Zuverlässige. It’s always on time – we promise!

• Gemütlichkeit – Give your passengers the cosiest railway experience with the Gemütlichkeit carriage. The comforts of home on the go!

• Neue Höhen – Take in the beautiful sights of Germany aboard the double-decker Neue Höhen. No passenger request is a tall order on this carriage!

🚂 Take a trip with all your Passengers in tow when you add Ticket to Ride: Germany to your collection today! 

⬛🟥🟨 Ticket to Ride: Germany is coming soon – so let’s take a sneak peek at what is to come!

Firstly, we’re thrilled to announce that we’re bringing the much-loved Passenger mechanic to digital Ticket to Ride for the first time.

At the start of the game, Passengers will be automatically sent to cities across the map. As you play, you’ll be able to collect Passengers when you connect routes. Bring aboard the most Passengers of each colour to earn bonus points at the end of the game!

Ticket to Ride: Germany also features Long and Short Tickets. At the start of the game, you’ll be able to choose which combination of tickets you want to draw. Long Tickets are harder to complete, but they offer more points – Short Tickets are easier to complete, but offer fewer points.

➕ Add Ticket to Ride: Germany to your wishlist today!

💛🦒 You made it happen – Ticket to Ride®: Heart of Africa Expansion has arrived on Steam!

For the first time on digital platforms, explore the beautiful and varied landscape of Africa alongside new travel buddies Blessing Kipruto and Nnamdi Okpara. Plot your path, refine your strategy and become an expert at navigating tricky new terrain with the aptly named Terrain cards! 

With careful planning, you can double your points on a completed route by using Heart of Africa’s three different Terrain cards:

🏜️ Desert and Savanna for yellow, orange and red routes

🌴 Jungle and Forest for purple, blue and green routes

⛰️ Mountain and Cliff for white, grey and black routes 

Customise your game with thematic vehicles, including the historic Fahagola railbus, the Safari Sights car and the Animal Trails or Stately Travels carriage.

Change your perspective with the all-new Landscape Mode too! Toggle this option in the map selection screen to play the Heart of Africa map whichever way you like. 

🗺️ Think you can plot a course through deserts, jungles and mountains? Add Ticket to Ride: Heart of Africa to your collection today and find out! 

💛🦒 Are you ready to experience Ticket to Ride: Heart of Africa for the first time in digital form? 

The latest expansion is due to arrive shortly – are your bags packed and ready to go? 

As voted for by the community, Ticket to Ride: Heart of Africa is one of the most beloved expansions from the original physical game. Its first foray into the digital world brings the unique Terrain mechanic to the online game. 

Players can double their points on completed routes by using the Heart of Africa’s three different Terrain cards: 

🏜️ Desert and Savanna for yellow, orange and red routes

🌴 Jungle and Forest for purple, blue and green routes

⛰️ Mountain and Cliff for white, grey and black routes 

The Heart of Africa will also come with a new accessibility feature: Landscape Mode! Toggle this feature to tailor your Ticket to Ride experience by flipping the map to your preferred view. 

⬇️ Check out the teaser below for a sneak peek at The Heart of Africa’s gameplay!

➕ Add Ticket to Ride: Heart of Africa to your wishlist today – the fan-favourite expansion arrives soon!

Welcome aboard everyone!

You've been asking what map is coming next, with our previous hint leaving you asking for more.

Take a peek at these, and see if you can figure out our next destination 👀

Broaden your horizons with the latest Ticket to Ride update: content sharing with friends! 

You can now share your expansions with friends who don’t own them. For example, if you recently picked up the Ticket to Ride: Japan Expansion and your friend hasn’t yet, they can still join you for a game! Just create a lobby, invite them in and choose your expansion to play. 

It’s easy to play Ticket to Ride with your friends!

Hello travellers! 🚂

We’re all really excited about the upcoming new feature in Ticket to Ride: content sharing. This FAQ will walk you through everything you need to know: how it works, what’s included, and how it affects your gameplay.

How do I play Ticket to Ride® with my friends?

In an upcoming Ticket to Ride update, you’ll be able to share content with friends!

Check out the video below to find out more:

Everyone needs to own a copy of the Ticket to Ride base game to play. Get ready to become the MVP of your friend group! Share your favourite digital boards with your buddies in Ticket to Ride soon.

Join Marmalade Game Studio in supporting Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) for World Ocean Day – and snag a new game for less!

The WDC World Ocean Day Sale starts today and runs until 12th June 2025, 10am PDT. Find a selection of Marmalade classics in the sale: 

• The Game of Life 2 – 60% off

• Battleship – 80% off

• Ticket to Ride – 60% off 

• Ticket to Ride: USA 1910 Ticket Pack – 40% off

• Ticket to Ride: Europe Expansion – 40% off 

• Ticket to Ride: Starter Pack Bundle – 45% off

We will donate 20% of our net revenue to WDC to support their conservation work, so you can have fun and change the world at the same time!

Go to the WDC Sale Page here

Who are WDC?

WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation are the leading global charity dedicated to the protection of whales and dolphins. 

Their expert-led teams in the UK, Europe, the Americas and Australasia work across the whole spectrum of threats, from climate breakdown to accidental entanglements in fishing gear, pollution, captivity and hunting and whaling. They bring together and work hand-in-hand with businesses, philanthropists, scientists, NGOs, governments and grassroots communities to find solutions to the problems faced by whales and dolphins.

Their mission is to reverse the global decline of whale and dolphin populations by creating safe seas for these majestic beings. And their vision is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.

What is ghost gear?

Ghost gear is fishing gear that has been lost or abandoned at sea. It’s a deadly menace to whales, dolphins and other marine life. 

But it’s difficult and expensive for fishers and other ocean users to dispose of gear they find at sea, or even to responsibly get rid of their own gear at the end of its life.

It is a massive problem, and so WDC are working on innovative solutions.  

How your support will help this year

By purchasing games from this year’s World Ocean Day sale, you will help WDC continue their global conservation work, as well as their ghost gear removal project, funding 10 missions for divers to remove lethal entanglement hazards to marine life (and scuba divers) from reefs, seabed and shipwrecks in UK seas.

If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here:

https://whales.org/

*20% of our net revenue from this sale (after Steam platform fees) will support WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. WDC is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705).

🏆 Tournament Begins May 15th – With Prizes!

🏅 May Leaderboards Are Live!

Ticket to Ride: Japan Expansion gets the digital treatment for the first time!

The next expansion for digital Ticket to Ride is on the horizon, and it’s a first for the video game version of the modern classic board game.

Fixes and improvements

• iOS and Android players now get native notifications at the start of their turn in asynchronous and unlimited OWF
• Fixed a bug causing games to freeze during the end-game sequence
• Games should now show under the correct "your turn" or "waiting" tabs
• End Game Scoring improvements
• Async lobbies will now start automatically when the lobby is full, even if the host is away
• Fixed a bug causing a freeze when there are no available moves
• USA Mega Game ticket scores fixed to match the physical game
• Console lobbies can now auto-start
• AI fixes and improvements
• Several visual improvements
• Several multiplayer and stability fixes
• Several other bug fixes

⌚ When does the tournament start?

👀 Where do I sign up?

🔎 Will I need any additional maps?

🏆 What could I win?

Patch notes – 1.7.0

🗺️Switzerland Expansion

• A brand-new board featuring country-to-country tickets and a new soundtrack while you play it with exquisite yodelling
• 2 new trains – the Smokestack and Blizzardblaster
• 2 new carriages – the Golden Wanderer and Barrelbahn
• 2 new characters – photographer Ayla Vogel and watchmaker Elias Hartmann

❄️Winter Wonderland bundle

• 2 new colours – teal and purple
• A new train and carriage – the Santa’s Wheels and Special Tree-livery

🔨Bug fixes and updates

• When claiming tunnels in Switzerland, you can now choose between paying with colour cards or locomotives
• Fixed some instances where entering a currently used room code created an error
• Estimate for when the current turn will expire now properly updates in the ‘My Games’ tab when all players are not in game
• Fixed missing outlines on trains during the longest route calculation
• Fixed some visual issues when drawing cards for a tunnel claim
• Fixed a softlock when resuming the game during the longest route calculation
• Resolved some issues causing crashes during the end step of a game

🗺️ Identify hub cities

🔒 Lock or block

⭕ Secure country nodes quickly

🎫 Be realistic with tickets

Get ready to take on Ticket to Ride®’s most challenging map yet – coming soon!

• No more duplicate tickets appearing in certain games, especially in US Mega.
• Completing tickets in Big Cities Europe will no longer freeze the game.
• Corrected souvenir counts in San Francisco games for more accurate gameplay.
• The Sea Lion Souvenir is still shy, but it won't hide behind trains anymore!
• Lobbies will now start correctly after all players are ready. No more waiting around!
• San Francisco souvenirs sharing the same route will no longer fight for the same counter.
• Improved tunnel animations for a smoother visual experience.
• Several improvements to iOS crashing issues.
• AI behaviour has been polished, and some inconsistencies have been addressed.