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No depot, no trains (no other way I could find to access a train building dialog). I tried to create a passenger line and couldn't even build a train depot, it wasn't in the rail build options. Game performance again was very good - I remember it being quite poor when first tried Simutrans several years ago - and comparable with OpenTTD for smoothness. Often unclear, with frequent trivial glitches (text overflowing etc), it's just a bit messy and thus not quite so pleasant to interact with. The user interface is a poor man's version of the OpenTTD UI. It's obviously a classical track in a minor key, but I can't see how that epitomises tycoons and enterprise. I know Germans have famously bad taste in music (the original author is a German guy) but the tune that greets you at the main menu is grating and negative. I tried pak128 and ic - both aesthetically pleasing and supposedly playable.

There's plenty of nice graphics packs readily available although only a few are really playable.

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Although the website lists version 0.99.17 as stable, the forum lists 101.0 as the stable download and is more recent so I went with that. This is a difficult one, both to play and review.

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Unlike OpenTTD, it is totally Free software, which is a good start.

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The Simutrans wiki is a good resource for learning how to play the game. Whilst I should have looked harder - there was a Starter Guide and other documents available - they have made documentation more accessible and prominently placed. Overdue Update: The Simutrams community constructively took onboard my criticisms. The gameplay is simple, but it is too simple, and that is why I don't play the game any more. Big passenger stations have a limited catchment area, if you have other vehicles 'unload' passengers at them then those vehicles basically run on a loss.

Also there is a lack of passenger chaining. There's no station management - all rail stations are the same, roofed or not - no additional parts, just stations. There should be more limits on where you can build (contracts with councils, perhaps), shaping land should be more costly, there should be an element of challenging to getting up and running highly profitably. You should be able to drive your competitors away by competing with them for contracts. Industry connections should be specific to deals between individual industry companies. Other than industry locations, you don't have to accommodate the game world much it accommodates you. You basically mould the map by placing down transport routes. Towns are evenly spread out, but not connected with roads (you have to build them). Despite the 'reality' setting, the game world barely comes across as real. It all gets a bit repetitive after a while. There's no end goal, nothing other than building your bank balance and big networks and cities (which you can only influence, not control). Almost all non-fluffed transport links are profitable and the AI is awful (although this is getting remedied by a new AI framework due in OpenTTD 0.7). Once you work out how to connect a couple of industries or cities, the game challenge disappears. There is one big problem with OpenTTD though. Which it shouldn't really be, considering this is a 10 year old game and I'm on a 2 year old laptop, but suffice to say these days my expectations are low! Game performance is exceptional, with a lot going on it was consistently smooth and never laggy. The user interface is very nice - although sometimes you do get overwhelmed with windows. (My 8 year old son was playing with it after only brief instruction.) The great thing about OpenTTD is that it is polished. The gameplay comes naturally to me, and is easy to get into. I've been playing Transport Tycoon since I was a kid. They are getting there, but I don't think they'll be complete before the end of this year. The community has been working on a project called OpenGFX to create both drop-in and high-resolution graphics to replace the proprietary materials. Still, it is not quite Free software, you need the abandonware Transport Tycoon Deluxe to run it. I started with OpenTTD 0.6.3 - being the only formerly commercial game I'm covering today, it is good a metric for the others.