OpenTTD is an open-source, cross-platform clone of the 1995 classic ‘Transport Tycoon Deluxe’. The game allows the player to run a transport company, where they will be expected to become a transport tycoon and operate a network of trains, lorries, ships and aeroplanes.
You have to move people between cities and move goods like oil and coal between the relevant industry. This probably sounds easy, but it is strangely fun!
The game requires the user to have a copy of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, as it relies on that game’s data for graphic files. If you have lost your copy, a bit of googling should return a few copies.
The game is highly extensible and users can modify vehicles, add and make maps (some available ones are real-life, such as one of the Boston metropolitan area or of the UK) and add new types of vehicles. These modifications and maps are on the OpenTTD Forum.
The default vehicles are planes, helicopters, hovercraft, ships, trucks, buses, railways, electric railways, monorail and MagLev train. The vehicles available, and the models of them, vary as the game progresses – you obviously can’t have a supersonic jet in 1950!
OpenTTD can also be played multiplayer over a LAN or Internet. This is a nice thing to play with a friend whilst bored.
The game isn’t very challenging; you can easily go from a balance of -€200,000 to hundreds of millions in green figures in about 50 in-game years. Yet, it remains fun. Online gaming is much more challenging.
It can be played on all major operating systems and developmental ports exist for portable devices like PocketPCs and Nintendo DSs!
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Transport Tycoon Deluxe is one of my favourite games. Its a great business strategy game and one of the very few games where the AI doesn’t cheat in order to make it harder. This clone looks exactly the same as the original and they seem to have made improvements to the path finding AI as well and well as other new features. Well worth the free download.