Controls

Keyboard, mouse and trackpad, on Windows and on a Mac.

Coloured keys do something. The colour says what kind of thing.

Moving the view

• The view also scrolls when the mouse touches the edge of the screen. Settings can switch that off.
• Prefer scrolling to zoom on a trackpad? Turn on Two-finger scroll zooms in Settings; then Ctrl and scroll pans.

Building and inspecting

• Left button: use the current tool. Click to place, drag to build lines and areas.
• Right click: cancel. The first click drops the drag in progress, the next puts the tool away.
• Esc does the same, then closes the top window, then opens the game menu.
• R turns a station, depot or airport before you place it. With a bridge tool it changes the bridge style.
• With Inspect, the pointer becomes a hand over anything you can open, and a ring marks the vehicle a click would open. Where several things overlap, click again for the next one.
• Rest the pointer on a vehicle and its route is drawn on the map in its company's colour, with the stops numbered in order. It stays while the vehicle's window is open.
• O steps through the map layers: station ratings, waiting cargo, coverage (which houses and industries your stations reach) and land value. The small button on the minimap lists them, a legend says what the colours mean, and Esc turns the layer off.
• The last layer, Problems, puts a pin on everything on the Problems list: point at a pin to see what is wrong, click it to open it.
• Bridges, tunnels, depots, wires, airports, Level land and the Connect tools have no key: pick them from their group on the toolbar.
• Ctrl+Z undoes your last piece of construction and gives the money back. See Land & bulldozing.

Windows and Mac

The game is the same on both. Only these keys differ:

Time

• Space or P pauses and resumes. You can build while the game is paused.
• + and - change the speed: normal, x2, x4, x8. At normal speed a day lasts about 2 seconds.