Transport Fever

I have no experience with earlier versions of the game, but as it is now - in 2018, after its significant UI and stability update - it is a magnificent transport tycoon game. While the tutorials and voice acting are unforgivably condescending and long-winded (which thankfully can be disabled), and the campaigns are tedious at best, the free play mode is an ideal sandbox and will represent the bulk of time investment with the game if you have the dedication to augment the experience yourself. --- This is is a game for people who enjoy both the challenge of logistics routing / management and watching trains haul things, because there's a lot of that. Trains will haul cargo through vast open valleys, rocky mountains, parched desert lake beds and european farmland on their way from town to town to be sold for profit, granted you designed a profitable route. It all looks great in motion, and the reward is meeting the demands of towns that will grow dynamically in response. --- Like any hobby, this game requires an interest in tweaking things under the bonnet to fully enjoy, and GOG users will have to contend with some quirks to complete the experience. For example, mods mysteriously require a "_1" suffix appended to their root folder names in order for the game to recognize them. It's best to use the unofficial mod manager (TPFMM) rather than acquire the mods online yourself, but some mods cannot be acquired through its database - particularly from the Workshop. In order to download those exclusive mods, you (GOG users) will need SteamCMD, the appropriate AppID (which is 446800), and the ID for the mod you want (found in the web address for the mod's Workshop page). There's a bit of file management involved, but the exceptional modding community make it worthwhile, as they provide additions both supplementary and necessary. --- Discover the depth of this community and the game for yourself, if you're enticed by the idea of a new hobby in the form of a game.

I spent 12 hours in game already and it only felt like a couple of hours. Great immersion, great sense of details. I am personally really enjoying playing Transport Fever. This game is in my eyes what a proper sequel of the Railroad/Transport Tychoons should have been. It requires careful management, intelligent planning, it takes time until your work finally pays off, but when it does, it gives amazing freedom to develop further (still with careful planing). I don't give 5/5 because I am annoyed at a couple of things 1: No road traffic lights. Only for railroads. That is annoying and it breaks the immersion in my opinion 2 : No One way roads (same as before) 3: I think freeways and toll roads should have been added too 4: More optimization could not harm the game YET, it still runs quite fine on my computer (GTX 970, 16 GB RAM...) and I still plan to spend countless hours on the game :)

Need Internetconnection to play. If you be offline the Main Menu is grey and you can not click the Surface. Thumbs down!

Firstly, this game needs a lot of optimization. I have huge FPS drops even with a fast CPU. It looks good in the beginning, but as soon as you fill the map with movement, the level of programming will reveal its true nature. Unfortunately, the developers forgot to mention this issue before launch. Secondly, the train logic and consequently the gameplay is nowhere near that of openTTD or Locomotion, which are the Train games I'm familiar with. Thirdly, please never ever pre-order games!