About Simutrans

This page describes the game from player's point of view. If you are more interested in game development or history, please do to Simutrans Development and History page.

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Simutrans the Game | Game features | Screenshots and videos | Development and History

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Simutrans the Game

Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulation game that runs under Windows, Linux, BeOS on PC, and OS X on Intel based Macs.

In Simutrans you can build the transport networks you always dreamed of, with platforms, quays, level crossings, bridges, tunnels, signals and much more. Transport passengers between nearby cities with a commuter train or use a high speed train to earn big money by connecting cities further apart.

You can choose from a large amount of trains including steam, diesel and electric engines, along with multiple units - each with a different properties. Fleet of ships and ferries, buses, trams, trolley buses, trucks, and planes are at your daily disposal. More exotic ways of transport include monorails and maglevs.

Make your own bus system, transporting people throughout the city and lay out new bus routes to make cities grow. Watch your cities really come alive with trucks driving around carrying all kinds of goods. Supply the bookstore with new books and watch out, the Car Seller has almost run out of new cars! Be sure that the furniture factory has enough wood. Oops, the materials wholesaler has just sold his last planks, be quick to buy a new truck to strengthen out that route!

Connect all kinds of industries with each other, the Power Plant needs coal to run. The Refinery gets its supplies from either an Oil Field or an Oil Rig, and produces plastics which allow new cars required by the Car Seller to be built, and gasoline that is sold in gas stations to make those cars run. More of these industry chains are built in this incredible simulation.

Discover them all, download Simutrans right now.

Game features

• Many transport options: trains, airplanes, busses, trucks, ships, trams, monorails, and maglevs.
• Build sophisticated stations and airports, and configure them just as you need from various structures.
  
• Play against the AI players or on your own.
• Play as long as you like: start in 1880 and finish in 2050. There will be new vehicles and buildings throughout this time.
  
• Over 40 types of industries can appear on the map, and 35 types of goods can be transported.
• Control and watch your finances and the traffic of your vehicles and goods.
• Each passenger and unit of goods is intelligent, knows where it needs to go, and can transfer from one vehicle to another to reach its destination.
• If managing well your transport network, cities will develop and merge forming large metropolises.
• Terrain modification possibilities are almost limitless, do what you need or can afford.
• You can choose from wide variety of graphics packages.
• If you are in debt for three months, you are bankrupt and the game is over.

Screenshots and videos

More screenshots of our avaliable graphic packages can be found on Paksets page and on our Screenshots and saved games section of our forum.

Also, you can watch Simutrans' gameplay and tutorial videos at YouTube.

Development and history

Simutrans Team

Simutrans is maintained by a world-wide team of volunteers in our community: coders, artists, writters, translators and testers. Also, we have volunteers who maintain the community and all activities and resources, like sites, community forums, tools, resource libraries and so on.

Simutrans history as well as current organization of development and ways you can know us and join us are described on development page.

This site

This web site was formerly written by Tomáš Kubeš in 2006 and edited by Simutrans Community in 2009.

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