on rails
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edit- (video games) Rail-based.
- (video games, of a character or object) Constrained to travel along a preset fixed path.
- 2012 November 10, Scott Manley, 0:18 from the start, in What does it Take To Deorbit A Moon In Kerbal Space Program[1], archived from the original on 26 September 2022:
- So, first of all, let's clear it out of the way: it is not possible to deorbit any of the moons in the game. They are all on rails, and nothing you can do will adjust their orbit in any way whatsoever.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, rails.