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Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ cover art

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™

Chris Sawyer · Atari · 2015-03-17

SteamGOG

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 07, 2004 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!

13
playing now
87%
positive of 678 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.89
steam price (US)

13 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is a video game designed and programmed by independent game developer Chris Sawyer, and published by Atari Interactive in September 2004. The game is a simulation game in which the player takes on the role of a transportation company manager, building transportation networks and managing the flow of goods and passengers in order to compete against rival companies. Sawyer independently developed the game over nine years from the 1990s as a "spiritual successor to Transport Tycoon", with the game featuring "fundamentally the same" gameplay but with "differences in detail, scale and presentation" to update and refine the features that Sawyer "wanted to get right" in its predecessor.

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  • · Top 39% of 6,689 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 17k–41k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 678 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$0.89-85%
GOG$0.89-85%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.89-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.77 at Fanatical (2021-04-01) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 42 of 74 observed days · $0.12 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1842026-08-12 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 14 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 18 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 14 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 14 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 10 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 9 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 12 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 16 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 14 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 12 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 6 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 13 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 10 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 7 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 16 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-29 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 13 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.66$0.892015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-06-18 — best price $12.662015-11-25 — best price $2.992016-02-19 — best price $1.792016-06-02 — best price $5.992016-11-29 — best price $5.992017-03-21 — best price $5.992017-08-17 — best price $1.492017-11-30 — best price $4.712018-02-22 — best price $5.992018-08-09 — best price $5.992018-12-01 — best price $5.992019-06-26 — best price $2.392019-11-08 — best price $5.992020-01-05 — best price $5.992020-02-18 — best price $4.992020-04-29 — best price $4.922020-06-15 — best price $5.992020-07-25 — best price $5.992020-09-06 — best price $5.992020-10-09 — best price $5.992020-11-07 — best price $5.282020-12-09 — best price $5.992021-02-10 — best price $2.032021-05-12 — best price $0.892021-12-04 — best price $5.992022-03-25 — best price $4.402022-09-07 — best price $1.192023-01-16 — best price $6.482023-08-14 — best price $2.392024-01-15 — best price $4.402024-05-30 — best price $5.992024-10-08 — best price $5.992025-01-13 — best price $4.402025-06-09 — best price $5.992025-10-16 — best price $1.192026-01-23 — best price $1.192026-05-22 — best price $5.992026-08-23 — best price $0.892026-08-30 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

TrainsClassicEconomyStrategyManagementSimulationCity BuilderTransportation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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