Simutrans on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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.

Simutrans is a simulation, free to play and trains game developed and published by The Simutrans Team.
Released on May 24th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 19 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish and Ukrainian.

It has received 616 reviews of which 465 were positive and 151 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊

The game is free to play on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 or later
  • Processor: 1 Ghz or faster processor
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Broadband internet connection required for network play
MacOS
  • OS: OS X version 10.5 (Catalina), or later.
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Broadband internet connection required for network play
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 20.04 or later
  • Processor: 1 Ghz or faster processor
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Broadband internet connection required for network play

User reviews & Ratings

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Aug. 2017
Good Complicated for starters but once you know how to play, you won't stop. Bug: everytime i open the game and it loads the map AUTOMATICALLY (should need manual 'load game') and then says fatal error. Gonna stick with the non-steam version
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Jan. 2017
this game looks like it could be fun as hell but it really needs a detailed tutorial for new players.
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Jan. 2017
A great came, pretty retro graphics but still enough for me to kill 3/4 hours and not even know about it!
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Simutrans
7.2
465
151
Online players
27
Developer
The Simutrans Team
Publisher
The Simutrans Team
Release 24 May 2016
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