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Transport Tycoon – Entertainment Game Review
Transport Tycoon is a Entertainment/Simulation/Strategy game from Atari, Interactive, first launched in 3rd October 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 339+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Transport Tycoon Stand Out
Build the ultimate transport empire!
Take control of your own fledgling transport company, and use your engineering skill and business acumen to keep cargo and passengers moving – and keep the money rolling in!
Transport Tycoon contains everything that made the original PC game an all-time classic, plus a whole host of brilliant new features – bigger, richer worlds, deeper simulation and a huge variety of land, sea and air vehicles. The intuitive new touch screen interface makes it easier than ever to build and maintain your transport network.
Whether you're planning and constructing ambitious engineering projects, or simply exploring the intricately simulated workings of the game's world, Transport Tycoon is your ticket to many hours of absorbing and rewarding entertainment.
TRANSPORT TYCOON is the definitive version of the classic simulation game, created by 31x and Origin8 Technologies in collaboration with Chris Sawyer, the original designer and developer of the TRANSPORT TYCOON and ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON franchises.
BUILD
• Deploy bus and tram networks to grow sleepy towns into bustling cities.
• Lay cross-country railroads to keep industries supplied with precious resources.
• Construct massive bridges, dig tunnels and deploy earth-moving tools to carve a path through mountainous terrain.
• Build air and sea ports to transport cargo and passengers further and faster in an accelerating world.
EXPLORE
• A wide range of beautiful landscapes including deserts, forests, mountains, valleys and islands.
• Several ‘real-world’ scenarios modelled on regions of North America and Europe at different periods in the 20th century.
• A richly simulated world with changing seasons and working industries, farms and towns.
• An all-new interface puts everything you need to explore and interact with the world at your fingertips.
DESIGN
• Over 150 vehicle types allowing you to choose the ideal transport solution for every situation.
• Use railway junctions and signals to allow multiple trains to share your rail routes.
• Modify vehicles and stations and assign new routes to adapt your business in real time.
• Upgrade and replace old vehicles as new and better ones are invented – all the way to supersonic jets and bullet trains!
COMPETE
• Play through 49 scenarios expertly designed to suit all skill levels and playing styles.
• Try to stay one step ahead of advanced A.I.-driven competitor's companies.
• Track your progress and troubleshoot your business with in-depth company statistics.
• Prove yourself worthy of the title of Transport Tycoon and take on the life-consuming 100 Year Challenges!
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Transport Tycoon © 1994, 2013 31X Ltd. Created by Chris Sawyer. Transport Tycoon ® 31X Ltd. All rights reserved.
Transport Tycoon is a Universal App compatible with iPhone 4 and newer, iPod touch 4th generation and newer, and iPad 2 and newer including iPad Mini. iOS 6.0 or above recommended.
All content and features are included with no additional purchases required.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Transport Tycoon is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th April 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Fix for spanish language that affected some devices
- Fix for some crashes and other issues
Download & Availability
Transport Tycoon is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Transport Tycoon on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We cant recommend this game enough. A perfect remaster of the original, and pretty addicting at that. We only wish that the game was still being updated and developed.
Ive played for so many years its a great way to mellow out. Even thought Id change some things or add others we love it.
This game, honestly, its a masterpiece. We recommend ages 7+ is a bit complicated, but when you play it for a bit you figure it out. Great game thank you so much.
Ive been playing this since we were in elementary school(now in college) and Ive almost done with all the challenges and we hope there could be more maps.
We love this game so much. It is quite fun to challenge ourselves to make a smooth working transportation business. To strategize which resources and trains to utilize first to increase our income to expand further. However, this game no longer works on our phone. Hasnt for a couple years since thats how long Ive had this new iPhone. We really miss playing this game and would gladly pay to have this game work for our phone. Please update.
We love the game but we would like to have more us steam engines and More cargo planes. Also the trucks turn around at level crossings but thanks for the great game.
THIS GAME IS AMAZING!!! It has our favorite stuff so can you add a sandbox mode witch gives all vehicles 1900s to the 2000s and gives unlimited money.
Funny how we were playing this same game on the turn of 2000. Computer based so you had a mouse to control everything.. But still, why can no other developer conjure up a game that is half like this one.. Too busy trying to make ways for you to have to collect keys crystals, diamonds and so forth to be worried about creating an epic game that last longer than 20 years… Hahah.
We love playing this game but with the current iPhone update we can no longer play. Im super bummed that we cant play it anymore and hope the developer updates the game so we can start playing again.
Is A Best Game And Not Lite Cause This Game Has Narrow Gauge And High Speed Line.
This game is great, we love it so much, we have too many saves. But at one point you just have too much money and too little space to do anything. Thats the main issue. Anyway the next review is from last year. Ok so updated, because we saw a good point in another review, iPad is a good format to play on, but the boats feature is terrible. You have to manually route them in order to get them to work and, not many people use the boats. Also, what youre about to read is something we wrote years ago. Hey could you add maybe crashes? Like vehicles can crash? Can you also add highways? Like highways that get auto built by the game? Also add cars! Please that would be awesome because there aren't just lots of trucks and buses and trams in a city is there? Also last but not least…BIG RIGS! The icon of this game shows a tractor trailer but in the game you only have trucks without trailers and that's what we want you to add pleeeeeeaaaaaassssseeeeee.
The Game Is Super Fun! Here is the Thing tho. Why can't you make Your Own Map? Or like Make scenarios. And we need more Planes. More Ships. And More Land Vichels. And make more Planes and add more Steam Powerd Ships. And. Why can't we make our own cities.
We REALLY love this game and would gladly pay to support the developers but its no longer compatible with iOS 13. The main screen splits into 8 micro screens; while the menu stays centered but squished. PLEASE UPDATE.
We love this game and have played it for years. We just wish they would update it.
Great game, Love it keeps us occupied when Im bored and need to pass time. But it needs an update. (More maps/locations) less competing companies, needs to be more of an independent transporting game.
Like what the other reviews say, the game could use an update.
We want play korean( Seoul Incheon metroplitan area map).
When we Was Playing a Game a Building Accepts Goods So we Builded a road to that building when our trucks It got there but it did not accepted Please fix this.
Cars Lamborghini Ferrari ford Tesla, where are the cars.
Can we get a sandbox mode? The game in general is great.
Please make a sandbox mode where you build the towns place the factories and do everything from scratch with unlimited funds.
In the next update will you please provide a modern goods wagon. The goods wagon traveling at 50 mph carrying 168 isn't enough when the inputs are so much higher as the other wagons improve.
Really addictive and fun ! But please add more levels for us to play :) , especially more hardcore and solo ones.
It is annoying to have only one train type in 1900 when there were numerous different types of trains out there including Pacifics to 2-8-0s 4-4-2s 4-6-0s 2-8-2s 1920s is 4-8-4s 2-8-4s and we hate The rollingstock in America because only one is correct there supposed to be American rollingstock not British and British trains do not have the proper speed when it comes to the A3(100mph) and A4 126(mph) and no locomotives made by Oliver Bullied.
Keep updating the game so we can still play it in the future you need a whole USA map instead of three parts put out more trains and make it so that you can cross competitors track and let you delete in town roads when building a track and also make it go over time on roads when you are in the early 1900s you have dirt highways in the 20 s paved two lanes 50 s on interstates begin popping up.
Without doubt THIS is our number one favoite game! We find NO glitches and, near perfect game play… Until we build about 40 trains or more. Then, it seems like we overload our old iPads memory and it start s to slow everything down. UNTIL then, PERFECTION! LOVE THIS GAME.
This is one of the best mobile transport sim-like games Ive ever played. Though there are still some downsides, like not being able to delete a save; we cant remove roads if theyre claimed by a town, even if we put the road there in the first place; not being able to delete roads of a competitor if they go bankrupt; the fact that we cant build tracks across tracks built by a competitor; and probably the most annoying one, only having 1 bridge type that can go up and down. But other than that, its still a great game. We hope to see more updates to this in the future.
The first one is buses going around in circles plz fix the second one is trucks turn around when stoped at a railroad.
We used to play this game on our computer through MS-DOS. This throwback is nothing short of amazing we love it. We hope you guys continue to make more.
This app is dangerously addictive.
This app is one of the most enjoyable ones available. It will occupy you for many hours with its various challenges and campaigns. The strategy that comes with starting a new transportation company is very lifelike and well designed, as are the vehicles, trees and buildings. We like how the architecture progresses and cities grow, and how vehicles become available to you depending on what in-game year it is. Overall 5/5, very good, definitely worth the money.
We are surprise no update or developing the game grahic it very good game and it should be upgraded.
Its fun. UI is a little clunky. But its pretty good. Wish they would patch it so it works on our iPhone again.
We think the game is great but on vehicles like planes you should be able to have paint schemes.One more thing can you add a sandbox mode were you have unlimited cash please.
PLEASE FIX IPHONE VERSION has six small screens and menu becomes microscopic Removed 1 star because of this. Bless us Chris Sawyer. We emailed you with images, showing this iPhone bug. We use 11max Pro – With the recent official reveal of Sid Meiers Railroad Tycoon, it reminded us of this game. Dear 31x Limited, Now is the time to recoup some revenue, Sid Meiers release will bring interest to this genre. Strike while the iron is hot! Below we list some Pay For DLC Ideas at the end of post Some issues: iPAD MINI 2021 MODEL (6th GEN): No Apple Pencil support, some UI elements work with Apple Pencil, others do not. Can you make all elements with with Apple Pencil? For example, we cannot choose vehicles in the vehicle screen where we buy them.. We have to use our finger we WILL GLADLY PAY FOR UPDATES: we have deep experience with Development costs and labor time, and bugs popping up out of nowhere. That said we would GLADLY pay for updates in form of DLC packs, MODS from PC. Will gladly play for: updates/fixes the following: supporting modern iPhone screens Add 3D rotation camera not this 90 degree snap turn rotation. Add fluid Zoom in & out camera Add full Apple Pencil Support If possible add Hi Definition graphics Pack.
We enjoy playing this game, but after upgrading to IOS 14, the game no longer works. It bumps out every time.
So, if you set up the Electric Multiple unit to unload passengers at both stations, it unload 256 passengers at once and it expands the cities exponentially. Its so broken, and it needs to be fixed.
We have been a avid player of this game for years and we have one suggestion that should be considered is the feature from Chris Sawyers Locomotion; the availability to make custom scenarios! To be honest about this our mostly expanded map capabilities in the Boulder Bay challenge by expanding the islands size but when certain goods and food services arent available to fully accommodate the three main cities, because of the lack of food industries that should be available to accommodate for higher percentages, our point is that we dont looking at low numbers for satisfaction. Please at least offer some variations of the Boulder Island challenge with other industries, we have made our own custom scenarios in Locomotion but wishing if there was some ability to share the custom scenarios directly to the mobile app. If thats possible we would be very inclined to give a five-star rating if this team could accommodate for such needs.
The game is fun to play, but we wish a had a sandbox mode we could build our own cities, have all vehicles, build custom scenarios, its been 3 years lets get an update.
Its great to have this game on our iPad, but we wouldve preferred a more pure approach to the graphics. It looks silly to mix old pixel art with little floating balloons telling whats in the trucks. And we preferred the old auto-generated faces in the DOS game to the weird CGI faces in this version.
We love this game. Its not just a poor quality adaptation, and it doesnt beg you for money to unlock any features. However, there is no way to make your own scenario. This game was released in 2013, and the website still says that options other than just the preset scenarios would be possible in later updates. We dont even need a map creator, we just want the ability to make scenarios.
Play this game all the time-very addictive and engrossing. Please update for the iPhone X.
This game has been broken for us for the last 2 years or so due to simply not rendering correctly on the iPhone 12 Pro Max. We like the original TTD and Locomotion and would love to have it on the go, but as of now its currently unplayable.
Runs perfect on the ipad, really happy with it. It does not work at all on our iphone 12.
The text is too small and the game renders as 6 smaller windows making the game unplayable.
We loved this game when we were able to play it on our older phones/tablets. Its a great game and plays smoothly. Im writing this review kinda just to beg someone to fix this game or to show that theres still interest in games like this lol.
Is this no longer supported for the big screens iPhones? Shame its a great game.
This is an amazing game and Im happy its on mobile but now its simply unplayable. Really hope somebody gets bored and decides to fix it because this game deserves it.
Aside from the boats being really glitchy from time to time, Id say this is a decent tycoon game for people who are interested in the genre.
We open the application and than it gives us multiple screens ! So we cant play.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.4
- Size: 366.88 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Atari, Interactive
Last updated: 6th April 2017 | Genre: Entertainment, Simulation | Developer: Atari, Interactive