OpenTTD, Unofficial Remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Coming to Steam in April
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (OpenTTD) is one of the wonders of the world in PC gaming. This is a standalone remake and expansion of the Transport Tycoon Deluxe economic strategy game from Chris Sawyer, released in 1995. The remake was launched 16 years ago – it is open source, free, and regularly updated. And thanks to the April 1 launch on Steam, OpenTTD is sure to find a new audience.
One of the developers of OpenTTD, under the pseudonym TrueBrain, posted this news on the game’s official website. He said the decision was made in part because outsiders are arbitrarily placing OpenTTD in various stores anyway. And when the team takes over the business of publishing OpenTTD on Steam, users can be confident that this version will be officially updated and will not receive any malicious code changes.
The strategy is already available on the Microsoft Store, and there is a page on Steam to add OpenTTD to your wishlist. The game will appear in the Valve Store and Update 1.11, which is currently in beta testing (among other things, it will improve support for macOS).
Chris Sawyer Productions and publisher MicroProse released Transport Tycoon in 1994, and an extended edition appeared in 1995 with the subtitle Deluxe. This is one of the foundational games in the genre. The player starts with a handful of small cities and must create transport links between them – railways and roads, ship traffic, and air traffic. Cities grow in size, demands on transportation networks grow, and soon you have to build airports, build bridges, and tunnel through the mountains to support a huge logistics empire.
OpenTTD has made it easier to launch and run the game on modern computers. She originally used Transport Tycoon Deluxe graphics, which required a copy of the original to run. However, the project now has its own set of resources at a higher resolution, so it is completely autonomous.
