Build the lines a growing world runs on.
Lay road and rail, open docks and airports, and carry passengers, mail and cargo through seventy years of change. Towns grow where you serve them. Rivals build where you don't.
How it plays
Passengers, mail and cargo turn up all over the map, and people pay to have them carried to where they're wanted. You lay the roads, rails, docks and runways, buy the vehicles and set their routes. Every delivery pays, and the money builds the next line. Here's a first coal route, played in the game.
Then round again, a little bigger each time. Towns grow where you serve them, industries open and close, five eras bring jets, hydrofoils and electric trains, and rival companies go after the same cargo.
For Transport Tycoon fans
If you grew up on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, or still play OpenTTD, you'll know your way around: a map of tiles, road, rail, docks and airports, industries that feed each other and rival companies on the same map. Fourways keeps all that and adds what the classics never had: real-time light from dawn to night, seasons and weather, towns that change with the eras, a guided first route and a list of everything that's stuck.
Fans of Railroad Tycoon's railways, Transport Fever's eras or Mini Metro's tidy lines will feel at home too.
One world, every hour of it
Real-time lighting, a day and night cycle, four seasons and weather that rolls in. Same town, same day's traffic: pick a moment.
What you'll build
Road · Rail · Sea · Air
Buses and trucks, steam to high-speed trains, ferries and freighters, prop planes to jumbo jets. The Connect tool finds the best road or track between two points, diagonals, bridges and tunnels included, and shows the price before you build.
Bridges and tunnels
Concrete beams for a stream, stone viaducts and steel trusses for a valley, steel arches and suspension bridges once the decades allow them. Hills too steep to climb get a tunnel with stone portals.
Supply chains
Mines, farms, wells, mills and plants pass cargo down the line. Industries hire workers from the towns nearby, so bringing people to the gate raises the output. Leave one unserved for too long and it may close.
Living towns
Homes follow jobs, shops follow residents. Busy stations raise land value, and valuable land brings apartment blocks and office towers. Bigger towns build cinemas, museums, funfairs and stadiums, and their crowds pay tourist fares.
Ports and airports
Docks on the shore, ships that find their own way across the sea, airports where planes take off, cruise and land. Stations built side by side join up, so one interchange can serve rail, road, sea and air.
An interface that helps
The Problems list gathers every lost vehicle, overflowing station and unhappy council, each with a button that takes you to the fix. Hover cards, map layers, named lines that space their vehicles evenly, and an undo for your last 20 builds, refunded in full.
Rival transport companies
AI companies at three skill levels build bus, truck and rail networks, then take to the water and the air when they can afford it. They chase the industries you serve badly and tear up the routes that never pay.
The fleet
Buses, trucks, trains, ships and planes, each with a model of its own, made in the game's own code. New ones arrive as the decades pass, from the steam engines of 1950 to hydrogen trains and airliners.
Atlas Hauler
Comet City Bus
Comet Double-Decker
Atlas Hauler Mk II
Comet Coach
Comet Articulated
Atlas Hauler Mk III
Titan Road Train
Atlas Car Transporter
Volt Electric Bus
Volt Electric Truck
Brigand Tank Engine
Kestrel Steam
Highland Mogul
Meridian Diesel
Sparrow Railcar
Vanguard Express
Ironclad Freight Diesel
Aurora Electric
Swift High-Speed
Swallow Tilting Express
Zephyr Hydrogen
Tempest Electric Freight
Gull Ferry
Petrel Tanker
Tern Freighter
Majestic Liner
Skimmer Hydrofoil
Atlas Box Carrier
Granite Bulk Carrier
Ripple Electric Ferry
Petrel Mailplane
Skylark Prop
Stork Cargo Prop
Albatross Jet
Kittiwake Turboprop
Pelican Freighter
Arrow Supersonic
Condor Jumbo
Osprey Widebody
Falcon Narrowbody
Swift Regional Jet
Leviathan Double-Deck
Breeze Electric Commuter
Aurora H2 AirlinerFive ages
Each era brings new vehicles and buildings, and rewrites the industry chains.
Steam, buses and the first chains: coal, wood, grain, oil, iron.
Jets and diesels. Refineries make plastics; power stations burn oil too.
Every house makes waste, and recycling plants turn it into goods.
Electronics that spoil in days, car plants with three inputs, office towers.
Coal fades, wind farms rise, electric trucks, ferries and planes arrive.
Free early build
Fourways is coming to Steam and itch.io. Until it launches there, the early build is free to download, and it updates itself as new builds come out.
On a Mac, the app isn't notarized yet, so macOS refuses it the first time. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. Updates after that install by themselves.
In English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese: pick one in Settings, any time.
Questions
Fourways will be a paid game on Steam and itch.io. Until it launches there, the early build is free to download from this page, and it updates itself as new builds come out.
A Windows PC (the installer needs no admin rights) or a Mac with an Intel or Apple Silicon chip. Play with a mouse, a trackpad, or an Xbox or PlayStation controller.
Yes, in spirit: you build road, rail, sea and air routes on a map of tiles and carry passengers, mail and cargo between towns and industries. Fourways adds real-time lighting, seasons and weather, five eras that change the industry chains, and rival companies that build networks of their own.
A five-minute guided tour builds a first bus route with you in the real game, and the player's guide (press H in the game) explains everything else.
English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese. Switch in Settings at any time.
Yes. Make your first mod with the sample locomotive, or explore the reference for vehicles, maps, translations and gameplay scripts.
