Devs should really focus on fixing this game first, before making Transport Fever.
Right now it's simply unplayable. No way of building road crossings on rail trucks? Really i need to demolish rail truck first, then build a road and put rail truck again over the road to make road crossing? No way of making any slopes with train trucks? Even if i make a railway through whole map, both endings need to be on exactly same level, same with railroad between - this will be just tunnels and bridges, becase whole truck needs to be on same level?
That's actually very sad because this game has a huge potential, it's cute and we it's the first real Transport Tycoon clone in ages, but unless it's fixed to be at least playable i dont recommend buying it

I have bought it a long time ago and it worked very slow on Core i5 + GT-740M and Athlon II X3 + GTX-750. So... I thought that it will be optimized in future. I have launched it yesterday and what I see? That is a ♥♥♥♥ing slideshow. My PC could play GTA-V with good FPS but it still could not show me at least 20 FPS with minimal details. It shows about 10! 10! That is worst optimization that I ever seen. Looks like developers think that each user has top Core i7 with 64 Gb RAM and 4 top graphical cards.

This game... It has it ups and down, dont get me wrong i do enjoy it alot somtimes.

Pros:
Good gameplay
Immersive sounds.

Cons:
Performance
Price
No Multiplayer
Limited amount of Road vehicles.
Limited amount of content, only a western europe and usa setting.

Overall for the price wait for it to go on sale for 10-15$ for that price i would recomend this game since its content then fits the value. Cheers!

Very interesting once you get to grips with the play.

Minus the glitches, bugs and annoying track laying system. This game was extremely promising, I had over 100 hours on this game and its a nice time waster. Right now I would not reccommend this game as an even more promising sequel to this game, Transport Fever, is in the works. As this stands this game is no longer being updated. I can't say that Train Fever wasn't a bad game. I got Train Fever from a Sale and I really enjoyed it. The price tag as it stands is too steep. I am unsure of what the price will be for Transport Fever. If the developers had overlooked it, it might be the same price, we only know for sure when the Transport Fever comes out or for pre-order (And I can't say that Im not already sold to Transport Fever as is) as it will have tons more features than its predecessor, Train Fever. All in all, wait for Transport Fever to come out, or if you are only interested in Train Fever, wait for a sale.

6/10

This game is frustrating as hell and punishes you for not knowing how to play but but it doesn't tell you how to play?
I tried playing several times but found myself wanting to play anything else. it looks nice i gess. trains are cool.

i bought this game and cant even play it , wont load the game . a waist of money, not happy.

Awkward controls. Terrible performance, even on Skylake and a R9 GPU. Poor balance, with trains being super-expensive. Fiddly track laying controls and primitive terrain handling. No Steamworks support for mods. You're better off with Railroad Tycoon.

Date of writing this review: 20/10/14. Some of my criticisms may have been addressed by the time you are reading this.

Firstly, I would like to state that I got this game 2 days ago, and I already have 16 hours. In my opinion, the game is the best tycoon game since Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

However, there are a few negatives that I would like to address, and because of these few negatives, people are not enjoying the game, or buying it.

- Dumb Name. Why didn't they call it Transport Fever!?! Would have made much more sense as the game is not only about building train lines.

- Minimal Tutorial. Despite this game being a very complex game, the tutorial is almost laughable. However, there are several community made tutorials to which aided me in learning the game, my favourite one being this one

- Rail Building could do some work. In order to build railway, you must do it in several chunks. This is as the game tries to average out the terrain, so that the rail will not go on a gradient - which can cost an absurd amount of money if the rail goes for too long.

- No Airports, or Boats. The airports I can somewhat understand, however the boats I do not. Each map has a river along it. It is crazy to think that despite this, they didn't put in a chance to add boat lines! I do hope that they add these features into a future update, or even a DLC.

- Only 4 Resources. I understand that with this, they were trying to go for the simplistic approach so that the learning curve isn't to big, however at least give me a chance in a settings menu to have more. The game does have excellent modding support though, and so I am sure that people will make mods in order to address this issue.


Once you look over these issues, it can be seen that the game is amazing. All up I am going to give this game an 8/10, and would still reccomend you to buy it, despite these issues. Also, if they do fix up these key issues, it could easily be a 10/10. Enjoy the game, and should you have any further questions regarding the game, feel free to add me and ask me some questions!

(This is my first proper review, so could you leave me some feedback? Thanks guys!)

When this game first came out it was a little buggy, and people expected huge things from a developers début title. Which is a silly thing to do for any new developer. (I blame the amazing trailer)


- You can't build wildly inaccurate track as you can in most games, the track has to be quite straight and realistic causing most initial plans that you would try to reuse from other games like TT and RT to be thrown out almost instantly and real planning to come in.
- It's quite easy to suddenly turn from profit to loss and loss to profit depending on how badly you have planned that upgrade.
- The nice looks means you get that enjoyable feeling watching trains whiz past the camera at multiple angles.

- The micro management is nothing amazing compared to other titles and possibly a little bit simple, but when you consider that it's a début title and they are not asking for €60 it's not bad.
- Simple, but long game. The game is quite simplistic so don't expect it to be a challenging, it's more relaxing than challenging. Once you've figured out the game there is very little to do other than just keep expanding and improving efficiency; It doesn't detract from the game-play, just don't expect things to change with every new game.

- The game is pretty simple, and easy to win once you figure out what it's people want. As much as to be expected with a début title.
- Town and resource placement is almost equidistant resulting in the same planning working for every map, and every town. So after you have a working strategy it will never fail, which negates it's replay value.
- No random events. If you've put a line down that makes a profit, it will continue to do so unless you change something.
- No AI companies. It gets lonely with no competition.
- The collision detection in this game is quite poor and lack of certain types of junction and crossroad make some types of planning impossible.


This may not be an amazing AAA game, but compared to what else is available it's okay. The graphics certainly make up for the lack of content in the game, and if you are into modding, (which is rather easy by the way) you can add plenty of additional content.
Even though this game is quite simple and doesn't contain much content, the developers continuously upgraded and improved the game around it's fans, and as such the features it does have are quite enjoyable.

There isn't much replay capability once you've found the most efficient engine, and built all the lines. The map generator is rather simple, and although new maps are initially a challenge. Once you've built a profitable company with a dozen lines, the rest of the map loses it's importance other than just to "connect everything". An AI opponent would be all it would have needed to keep the momentum going.

I'd recommend this to anyone that liked games like Railroad Tycoon or Transport Tycoon, but never really got into the heavy micro management or accounting side of things. If you just want to play with some trains, this is a good game for you.