Addictive, rewarding logistics gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“It is an old game but an addictive one.”
Steam review · 641.6 h played ↗
Train Fever
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 61%Mixed · 61%Urban Games2014Management · Simulation · Strategy
$19.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 2 h ago
The verdict
A pretty, relaxing but clunky 2014 transport tycoon with frustrating track building and UI, and no development for years. Skip it unless it's very cheap; Transport Fever is the better buy.
Great for
Patient train fans who enjoy relaxing model-railway sandbox play and want to see where Transport Fever began
Main risk
Fiddly track building, poor UI and a steep learning curve, in a game superseded by its sequels
What players love
Beautiful, detailed trains and world
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Train Fever looks gorgeous. It is by far the best looking transport tycoon that exists.”
Steam review · 100 h played ↗
Mods, updates and free USA DLC
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“players definitely have to make use of the great amount of mods that are out there waiting for you to explore them.”
Steam review · 383.8 h played ↗
Relaxing model-railway sandbox
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“If you like model railways, but do not have the Space, Time or Money to build one, this is the next best thing.”
Steam review · 50.9 h played ↗
Cheap way to see where the series started
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“It is a good teacher for learning how to play Transport Fever 1 and 2.”
Steam review · 153.5 h played ↗
Realistic track and train physics
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“You can't build wildly inaccurate track as you can in most games, the track has to be quite straight and realistic”
Steam review · 479.2 h played ↗
What players complain about
Abandoned, unfinished, early-access feel
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“This is basically abandonware. Instead of updating, the devs went and built transport fever instead.”
Steam review · 52.8 h played ↗
Superseded by Transport Fever sequels
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Do not buy this game. Buy one of their later versions of Transport Fever (1,2 or even 3 coming next month), This version is very outdated.”
Steam review · 1210 h played ↗
Poor UI and weak tutorial
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“it has very little direction or UI clues so I'm moreso lost on what I am doing. It seems to want to have you rely on youtube videos instead.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
Shallow economy and lack of content
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“There's a severe lack of content. Yeah I said it about the vehicles, now I'll say it about the industry. There's wood, iron, coal, oil... goods... uhm... people... oh that's it.”
Steam review · 8.4 h played ↗
Lag, stutter and crashes
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“even on OP hardware it gets laggier and laggier as you play. So many stutters and freezes whenever it has to calculate a lot of things at once.”
Steam review · 18.3 h played ↗
Frustrating track building and collisions
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“track laying is so infuriating once you need to cross a road, cross another track, or a myriad of other "terrain collision" issues”
Steam review · 40.4 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unknown
Minimum
OSWindows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce 8800 512 MB, ATI Radeon HD 3850 512 MB
OSWindows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce 8800 512 MB, ATI Radeon HD 3850 512 MB
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