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Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion

Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire! Lay down tracks, roads, and bridges. Use railroads, trucking lines, buses, airplanes, and ships to outmaneuver ruthless competitors who will try to take business away from you, and see who is the best at meeting the needs of a growing metropolis. Cash in on a world of opportunity moving raw materials, goods, and people efficiently from one destination to another. Rake in huge profits as the years advance from 1900 to 2000 and beyond. Experience different world variations, difficulty levels, and complete goals of different sce

Release date
August 9, 2011
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Chris Sawyer Productions
Publisher
Atari
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Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire! Lay down tracks, roads, and bridges. Use railroads, trucking lines, buses, airplanes, and ships to outmaneuver ruthless competitors who will try to take business away from you, and see who is the best at meeting the needs of a growing metropolis. Cash in on a world of opportunity moving raw materials, goods, and people efficiently from one destination to another.

Rake in huge profits as the years advance from 1900 to 2000 and beyond. Experience different world variations, difficulty levels, and complete goals of different scenarios. Run the world your way! Out-think, out-build, and out-network ruthless competitors to meet a demanding population's needs Develop a vast transport empire in over 40 scenarios set on very detailed maps Create entire networks of trains, buses, trams, trucks, aircraft, and ships Out-think, out-build, and out-network ruthless competitors to meet a demanding population's needsDevelop a vast transport empire in over 40 scenarios set on very detailed mapsCreate entire networks of trains, buses, trams, trucks, aircraft, and ships

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★ 7.6/10GOG · 301 ratings
GOGLast checked November 1, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 2 / 5
This is the spiritual successor to Transport Tycoon Deluxe (TTD). TTD was a great game for it's time, but had a poor interface like most…
★ 2 / 5
If you ever played OpenTTD don't play Locomotion after it. You will be frustrated with controls, UI, economy just like I did. There's no way…
★ 1 / 5
For some reason it crashed on launching the game. After crash super lag for my pc oddly enough.
★ 1 / 5
This game is somehow much worse than the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Whilst it ups the amount of objects you can have it limits you…
★ 2 / 5
Adding some nuances to the overall "better play OTTD" sentiment: CS' Locomotion suffers heavily from the Rollercoaster Tycoon Engine. The building system is reused 1:1…
★ 1 / 5
Open TTD, short for Transportation Tycoon Deluxe, is both free, and a HUGELY better game. Also, do even a bit of research, and you can…
★ 5 / 5
I actually love locomotion, despite playing it's predecessors Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe since their release. Locomotion was a breath of fresh air. Don't…
★ 4 / 5
A spiritual successor to the great Transport Tycoon. Unfortunately not as great as that one. It's a transport strategy/business simulator type of game. You have…

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★ 5 / 5
Amazing and addicting game. You sit down to play a half hour session and 3 hours fly without you even noticing. Charming graphics, runs smoothly…
★ 5 / 5
This game is an upgradred version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. No Silly stuff in it but I had this when it first came out and…
★ 4 / 5
This game is a classic. new to me. it was easy to pick up, its got a lot of the mechanics from Roller Coaster Tycoon…
★ 5 / 5
Just need to add spanish but aside of that its perfect. Works great and use OpenLoco to improve the experience
★ 2 / 5
Locomotion is proposed as the sequel to Transport Tycoon. It is a functionally worse Transport Tycoon, executed with worse ideas, worse building, and an unfitting…
★ 2 / 5
I've played the game for about an hour and cannot take it anymore. - The controls of building roads or tracks are maddening. Especially trying…

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