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I love these modern versions of old favourites. I've been playing Transport Tycoon all day today. https://openttd.org

I have played neither of the originals or the open source ones but I really liked Factorio and building traffic in city-building games (even though I feel they're too limited). Which one should I spend some time on, OpenLoco or OpenTTD?

OpenTTD. Been playing off and on since 2004 and still improving! It's a fantastic playground to try coding a bot, drawing graphics, scenario design, or just building the transport network of your dreams (or nightmares). OpenRCT2 is a close second.

The thing I don't get about OpenTTD: the passengers don't seem to care where you're taking them? In what way is it fun to build networks to solve the problem of "take passengers wherever, they don't care"?

I have enjoyed Simutrans, where passengers have desired destinations and use your service if you can take them there. They can change between different transports too. This often creates choke points. For me, that makes the game interesting.

You can, but you need to enable it (as it fundamentally changes how the game plays); https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Manual/Passenger%20and%20cargo%2...

you might enjoy "mini metro", it's the distilled essence of taking people where they want to go

OpenLoco, it has slightly more modern mechanics and graphics. OpenTDD truly looks like an old-old game.

Reminds me of OpenMW

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