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Simutrans

The Simutrans Team · 2016-05-24

Steam

Free To PlaySimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: May 24, 2016 (Mac), May 24, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 24, 2016 (Linux)

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.

14
playing now
76%
positive of 675 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

14 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Simutrans is a cross-platform simulation game in which the player strives to run a successful transport system by constructing and managing transportation systems for passengers, mail and goods by land, air (airplanes) and water (ship) between places. Like OpenTTD, Simutrans is an open-source transportation game based on the Transport Tycoon idea.

Health check

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  • · Top 33% of 2,970 Free To Play games in the census by review count.

Players online

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing7 DLC

19 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)673%4

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieTrainsEconomySandboxBuildingModdableStrategyManagementSimulation

Census log

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

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