Transport Fever

Route Engineer Simulator, 2017 Edition. The original Transport Fever, released many, many years ago runs well even on a system with integrated graphics and processor (currently using an i5-1155G7 with Iris Xe graphics and it runs with minor hiccups) The base game offers two campaign routes, America and Europe. They offer a decent challenge for newcomers to the game and I personally find the game to be quite interesting for anyone who's interested in the genre. I'm not quite sold on the routing, though. The curvature can be laughably weird at times, forcing the player to carefully arc and draw curves and turns along the map carefully, lest you end up with a circular curve that doesn't fit what you want it to do. When starting a "free game" (I guess a Sandbox mode?) you can randomize a map with a few options at your disposal: Flat, Medium and Hilly, modifying terrain features. In terms of difficulty, three options are also present - Easy, Medium and Hard; the three dificulty options are just that - offering you 30 million, 10 million, and 5 million starting cash, respectively to build lines to your heart's content. The starting maps will have towns that are about 3-4 blocks long and 2 blocks wide, at max, forcing you, the player, to grow it as you can with your routing skills. The chain of production is a key gameplay element, with steelmaking reliant on shipping both coal and iron to steel forges. It's a bit of a challenge to get the mix of supplies right, so that you can keep a steady flow of production. Truth be told, I haven't been able to get that right just yet. Overall, pretty solid first iteration. I haven't yet bought Transport Fever 2.

The game has bugs, goods do not deliver to station from the quarry or mill, randomly. When laying out roads, they come up incredibly crooked, and it's a pain in the butt to reorganise them, while quickly running out of money. Transport sim doesn't make sense at all, most city sims figured this out a LONG time ago. Tutorial is bugged. I want a refund.

Easy to understand UI and good game play. Sadly on GOG it dosn't upload saved games as it reports a larger file size than is allowed.

There are good and bad points, but overall I feel money well spent (and money not going to the evil Valve Corp.) So, it is basically a more complete version of Train Fever, the annoying lack of track laying and bridge building options have been fixed, you can really create some insanely complex line layouts.. level-crossing on a bridge? no problem! With the addition of more cargo types and multiple needs of each city, the end-game lasts much longer and you want to make each city thrive, and that involves shipping in people, food, tools, goods etc. The more you get shipped in the better. The current version lacks cargo planes, and discontinues smaller planes at modern times, so you're left with 3 jumbo jets and no small, short-run passenger planes. Ships are another addition, but I really don't see the point. You might make a bit of money early game, but mid-to-late game, it makes way more sense to stick a huge freight train on to do the job. With planes seeming not quite complete too, you're back to Trains, Lorries, buses and trams. All of which have a place in the game. Lorries are great for taking goods/tools/food etc into the middle of the city, rather than ploughing a railway through it, trams are profitable if you have a big city and buses are useful as feeder lines from the suburbs, leaving trains to do the long/bulky hauls across the map. The first-person camera is an awesome addition, again needs work; the near-clip is off so you see through many game objects which ruins the effect. So you're kind of left with a copy of "Train Fever" that has most of the lack of features in place from day one, but it still needs more work and bug fixes. If they abandon development of this game before fixing these issues and focus on "Transport Fever 2", then I shall be quite annoyed. I'm rating it 4 stars as I don't feel I've wasted money. Many hours of entertainment already, and I've still got plenty of play left in it, especially thanks to the modding community!

I bought this game and have only done the first tutorials, so far it seems like the type of game I hoped for when I bought it. I always enjoyed games like Transport Tycoon and Railroad Tycoon, this game seems to be a modern version of those games which is a type of game I've been searching for. I'm looking foward to trying all the great mods for this game I've been hearing about :]