How the game works
What you do, and how a company grows.
You run a transport company. You carry passengers, mail and cargo from where they appear to where they are wanted, and you are paid when they arrive.
How a company grows
- Connect two places by road, rail, sea or air.
- Build a station at each end.
- Buy a vehicle and give it its stops.
- Get paid for every delivery: the further and the faster, the more.
- Spend it on more routes, better vehicles and bigger stations.
You start with $250,000 in the bank, all of it borrowed. The bank lends more when you need it.
Where to go next
- Quick start: a coal train from nothing to its first payment.
- The screen: what is on the screen and how to read it.
- How you're paid: why one delivery pays more than another.
- Industry chains: which industry feeds which.
- Troubleshooting: what to check when something does not work.
Using this guide
- Press H at any time to open or close it.
- Coloured words are links. The arrow in the title bar, or Backspace, goes back to the page you came from.
- The box on the left (Ctrl+F) lists every page that mentions a word. Enter opens the first one.
- . and , turn to the next and the previous page, like the buttons at the bottom.