I’ve mentioned OpenTTD, the excellent free update to the seminal transport strategy game Transport Tycoon Deluxe before, but I’ve continually forgotten to mention the alternative, Simutrans. Whereas OpenTTD is firmly based on the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe, and requires the original TTD game files to play, Simutrans endeavors to be its own game. It’s based on the same set of gameplay elements but doesn’t require anything from the original TTD and uses a higher resolution graphics file format. In theory this should mean it looks better…in practice maybe not so much, at this point I’d say they’re equal. At any rate Simutrans is well worth a look if you enjoy the genre. As with OpenTTD Simutrans is cross platform and free.