A better UI, improved rivers, and much more
OpenTTD13.0 been released, which is “one of the largest releases we’ve done in several years” according to the developers. If you don’t know OpenTTD, it’s an open source and free fan remake of Transport Tycoon which greatly expands, polishes and modernises the beloved business sim. This latest update improves the interface further, tweaks the world generation, and more.
You can see asummary of the changes over on Steam. There’s nothing there that would make you instantly start playing, I don’t think, but there’s a lot of nice things if you’realreadya player. The interface can now be scaled to whatever size you want, rivers will now look more natural, and there areseveral dozen quality-of-life improvements in the full changelog.
More broadly, it’s just worth reminding you that OpenTTD exists, given that it’s one of the bestbuilding gamesandmanagement gamesof all time.
There might be more graspable games about profiting from transport networks, these days, but OpenTTD is theDwarf Fortressof the genre. It’s the kind of game you might take to in retirement, like gardening. As of this weekend, it’s just a little bit better.
