Transport Fever

A game with a campaign of no consequence. Also, a sandbox and a trove of mods and improvements, and for my son a virtual model railway, with the advantage that models do not cost an arm and a leg as they would with a physical railway, plus he does to have to clean up his room when he's finished building.
The hours on this game are his, and he's looking forward to TF2.

Out of all the transport tycoon-style games, this is the one I keep coming back to, over 100 hours and counting! It takes some learning, but it's fun from start to finish. The graphics are pretty enough to look at, and that's all that matters on that front. It's nice to watch as your trains chug past each other on diabolically complex rail lines, interweaving and intersecting, aided by an intuitive signals algorithm. You can build an epic transport empire.
Don't get me wrong, it has its flaws. Content wise, the lack of railway buildings - hoppers, sanders, signal boxes, warehouses, etc. Some more varied passenger carriages would be good. Station and airport customisation, etc. To be fair, there are a lot of awesome, compatible mods which add more vehicles, buildings, and assets, etc, but this can put a strain on weaker computers. At least the developers are mod-friendly, and don't milk players for dlc. I'd say there are some issues in getting people to actually use non-rail/road travel, which is a shame because there are some nice planes and boats. Sadly, you can't throw passengers in goods wagons and transport them actual cattle class :(
The game itself is more optimised than when I started playing it, thankfully.
Protip for new players struggling for money: freight is much more profitable than passengers. And it stays profitable even late game. Longer distances generate more revenue than shorter distances. Signals and waypoints are your friends. Hills and house developers are your enemies. Seriously I hate assholes who build houses right in front of my unfinished railway lines, so I build tracks in anticipation.
Great game. Very addictive.
8.5/10

Words cannot explain how much I love this game.
I played many (and I mean many) business management games as a kid, from very known franchises like Railroad Tycoon to very unknown games like Railway Mogul. Train games always interested me, but if there's something that makes Transport Fever great, it's the fact that we can buy trucks, ships and even planes. Sure, it's disappointing that we never got cargo planes, but nothing is perfect, right?
Anyway, the base game is okay, it's not bad at all. I personally downloaded some mods for it. Skins, new vehicles and so on. I also made my own skins - it was very easy. No rocket science behind it.
Transport Fever is like a childhood game. It looks and works like something I played when I was a kid.
Yes, maybe "childhood game" is not an appropriate term, but the game is a classic for me even if it was released in 2016. The way it works makes it feel like a childhood game. The interface is something that anyone can understand. Anyone can play this game. Even if business management is not your thing, it's still worth a try.
That being said, I pre-ordered Transport Fever 2 as soon as it became available.
Money well spent.

If you enjoy city building games coupled with supply and demand this is a no brainer purchase. Build huge extensive networks of Road Air Water and Rail interlocked together to get the best efficiency possible out of your network. Or build just trucks or just rail to grow your company at a slower pace than the norm. Run city buses cross country to distant towns for handsome payouts, or make a giant rail loop that hits all your outer cities with ease. Anything Transport Company that you can think of, can probably be built in Transport Fever!!!
-10/10 For company based building games!!

Great game! But I hope, second part of the game will be more interesting!)

Do I recommend this game? Hell Yeah! This is a great big step from Chris Sawyers Transport Tycoon.
It takes the basic transportation idea, gives it a great 3D engine, Beautiful Gameplay, many types of vehicles, and to top it all off, steam workshop support for many different things.
The only thing I could ask more of in Transport Fever 2, is to have more campaign's than just Britain and North America.
Still though, great job!

Bought this to learn as much as I can before Transport Fever 2 comes out...dont regret it.