OpenTTD 2004

Is it still worth playing?

The OpenTTD Team's remake of Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon Deluxe, first released in 2004, in which you earn money moving passengers, minerals and goods by road, rail, water and air. You build transport networks with trucks, buses, trains, airplanes and boats that link industries and towns. Each delivery earns income, which pays for more infrastructure, vehicles and terrain changes, and payment depends on how much cargo you carry, how fast it arrives and how perishable it is. The default game runs from 1950 to 2050, with technology upgrades such as electrified rail, monorail and maglev. Multiplayer supports up to 255 players and 15 companies, cooperating or competing, and a modding community adds vehicles, scenarios and patches. A long game of income that grows only when your network works well is still absorbing, because every route is a design problem.