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Train-led logistics and transport network builders.
Some of the best automation games aren't about factories at all — they're about moving things from where they are to where they're needed. This list is logistics and transport: train-led network builders where the puzzle is scheduling, routing, and throughput across a whole map. OpenTTD is the free, endlessly moddable classic that's been refined for decades. Transport Fever 2 wraps rail, road, sea, and air logistics in a gorgeous historical campaign. Mashinky sits between tycoon and sim, with a distinctive token-based economy.
If you love the logistics half of factory games more than the manufacturing half — timetables, signals, and supply lines — these train and transport games are built around exactly that.
OpenTTD
ReleasedAn open-source transport tycoon classic about moving cargo and passengers through rail, road, air, and sea networks.
Transport Fever 2
ReleasedA transport network sim where rail, roads, ships, aircraft, industries, cities, and passenger demand evolve across eras.
Mashinky
Early AccessA train transport strategy game where industries, cargo routes, eras, upgrades, and token economies shape the rail network.
All 3 picks — OpenTTD, Transport Fever 2 and Mashinky — are scored and reviewed in our catalog, each with screenshots, platforms, pros and cons, and similar games. Browse the full catalog of automation games →