Welcome to Simutrans
Choose one, out of the many thousands, of Simutrans' lands. Then, put yourself in the shoes of a young entrepeneur with some money from your grandparents: eager to make them proud, with ambitions of establishing a successful transport company, your challenge now is to build a prospering enterprise.
As time passes, develop your company into transport empire, keeping the economy running smoothly by delivering freight and satisifying the travel requirements of millions of passengers every month. Transport passengers, mail & goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Every land has something different to offer. Take a good look at your surroundings ... its future lies in your and your competitors' hands.
In the beginning, it maybe easier to start by supplying a power station with required goods. Then, connect other factories, maybe even using central hubs where goods are reloaded. The disadvantage of only transporting goods is that towns and cities won't grow fast.
Alternatively, you may immediately go for passenger (and mail) transportation. This is more challenging, as the inhabitants of this world want to travel to locations they choose. Some need to go to factories for work, some want to go shopping at the large mall in the main town, and others sightseeing. If you don't offer a connection to their destination, they will not travel with you at all. You will need to build networks. When your networks are established, you will need to upgrade them to keep abreast of demand. So plan ahead. If passengers like your service, towns will grow and new industries will be established and only then will the economy run smoothly.
You can play as long as you like. Start in 1880 and finish in 2050. There will be new vehicles and buildings throughout this time. Play against the AI or on your own. Only if you are in debt for three months, you are bankrupt and the game is over.
The Simutrans-Team and the community wish you a great time here in Simutrans!
Download
Simutrans runs on MS Windows, Linux, BeOS, MAC OS X, and can be compiled on many more systems. (It just requires either SDL or Allegro). To be able to play, you need one executable and one pak set. For beginner, the pak64 is recommended, since this should work always and is easier than the other sets.
The executable for windows comes in two versions: simwin-xx-yy.zip and simuwin-sdl-xx-yy.zip. If you are using a latin codepage, just download the SDL-version. If you are using unicode (e.g. you are from china, korea, japan) you better download the native version.
In any case, the most recent version and the matching pak sets (which contain the graphics and the definitions for the economy) are on the sourceforge download page.
You surely want to go there first, because usually newer version have less bugs and can still load older savegames!
Latest Stable Downloads:
You need the executable and at least one of the following paks:executable
- MS Windows native (needs unicows.dll on Win9x)
- Window with SDL (dll included)
- Linux with SDL and SDL_mixer (if lagging, start with "simutrans -nomidi")
- BeOS/Zeta with Allegro (static compile)
- PowerMac with SDL (needs SDL framework)
pak64
Japan pak64
pakGerman
Pak128
pak96 Comic
makeobj 48
makeobj is needed to create pak-files which contain graphics and data for the game engine. Not needed for play. makeobj cannot be compiled without many source changes for PowerPC!Older Stable Downloads
Older stable version have been hosted elesewhere. Stable means, that the these versions have been recommended for long term gaming, and that documentation focussed on those.
88-10-5 from July 06
executable
MS Windows
MS Windows with SDL, no Unicode input
Linux with SDL
BeOS/Zeta with Allegro
pak64
pak64 basic
addon food industries
addon waste industries
pak128
pak128 complete
makeobj 36 (generates pak from dat+png files, runs on console)
MS Windows
Linux
BeOS/Zeta
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Simutrans web site was written by Tomáš Kubeš in 2006.
Simutrans was created by Simutrans community.