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Also Trains and Transportation, like Simutrans.
- $7.99 (Price checked Nov 8)
- Deck Verified
- 2019
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- Released: 2016
- Developer: The Simutrans Team
- Price: Free to play
- 76% of 327 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Simulation, Free To Play
- Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Players highlight
- Deep economic simulation with dynamic balancing
- Destination bound passengers and cargo create realistic logistics
- Massive scalable maps with minimal performance impact
- Challenging
- Contemplative
- Immersive
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About Simutrans
The closest matches to Simutrans: Transport Fever 2, Sweet Transit, Cities in Motion, Voxel Tycoon, and Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Simutrans is your kind of game, the closest matches are Transport Fever 2, Sweet Transit and Cities in Motion — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, contemplative and immersive, and single out its destination bound logistics and economy management. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
About Simutrans: Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions.
Is Simutrans worth buying?
Mostly recommended
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 76% of 327 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Free to play.
- People who recommend it had played a median of 20 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 3 h before their negative review.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Deep economic simulation with dynamic balancing
- Destination bound passengers and cargo create realistic logistics
- Massive scalable maps with minimal performance impact
- Paksets drastically alter gameplay and aesthetics
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“I've enjoyed this game, but I wouldn't recommend it to the average gamer. The mechanics and UI are obtuse, and the project is so old that many of the resources are 5 years old and extremely out dated. To the point that the forums these…”
“You get no tutorial, and the game is too obscure to find any on the Internet. I have no idea if its complicated or realistic, but please add even a simple tutorial. I have no idea what I'm doing.”
People who play it also play: Transport Fever 2, Sweet Transit, Cities in Motion
Frequently asked about Simutrans
Can I run it?
Is Simutrans free to play?
Yes — Simutrans is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
Does Simutrans have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Simutrans supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, LAN PvP).
What games are most similar to Simutrans?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Simutrans are Transport Fever 2, Sweet Transit, Cities in Motion.
Who developed Simutrans?
Simutrans was developed by The Simutrans Team.