Simutrans is a cross-platform simulation game in which the player strives to run a successful transport system by transporting passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship and air between places.

Along with OpenTTD, Simutrans is an open source remake of Transport Tycoon.

Simutrans was originally written by Hansjörg Malthaner but it is now maintained and developed by a development team and an international community of volunteers.

Simutrans is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, BeOS, Intel Mac OS X, iPhone and recently AmigaOS 4. x under the Artistic License which was adopted in 2007.

Currently the stable release of Simutrans is version 111. 3. 1.

The main goal of Simutrans is to provide an efficient transport system for passengers, mail and goods to be transported to their desired destinations fast and with minimal transfers and at the same time making the company grow avoiding bankruptcy.

The terrain in Simutrans is freely-modifiable, and different layers like tunnels and bridges can be stacked, allowing for subways or highways to be possible.

Nightly builds for Simutrans and the main PakSets are also released.

Simutrans has a number of factory chains that are interconnected with other chains, for example, a coal mine produces coal for a coal power plant and an oil rig produces oil for an oil power plant.

GameDaily's Big Download considered Simutrans to be one of the best freeware games, highlighting the logical system of routing passengers and freight to their destinations, decent AI opponents and the support for custom aesthetics or rules-sets.

Prior to that, Simutrans was a closed source game and was developed internally.

The Simutrans executable can run many different so-called PakSets.

Simutrans currently features 12 AI players, and has an online capability similar to OpenTTD since version 110. 0.

Nearly all modes of transportation exist in Simutrans.

The Simutrans executable must load a PakSet which contains the game's objects.

Simutrans can easily be expanded or modified.

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