Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ is a simulation, strategy and trains game
developed by Chris Sawyer
and published by Atari.
Released on March 17th 2015 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 615 reviews of which 531 were positive and 84 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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- OS *: Windows XP or Windows Vista
- Processor: 1.8 GHz Processor
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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An underrated gem from the creator of RollerCoaster Tycoon, and now it's time to give it some love. Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is a game from the eponymous creator of RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and 2, and spiritual successor to Transport Tycoon. While those three games are regarded as legendary PC games for the system, this game ended up being very underrated and overlooked at launch because it simply came out too late for its own good. Despite being 5 years younger than it, the game aesthetically looks the same as RCT1. This may sound like an absurd criticism in this day and age where games with pixel-art graphics are everywhere, but back in 2004, not having the latest and greatest graphics was seen as a shortcoming of the game developer rather than a design choice to complement the game's natural feel. Add to the fact that OpenTTD had launched earlier that year and is literally free, and Chris Sawyer's Locomotion ended up being left out in favor of better looking PC games. In the years since, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion has undergone a bit of a renaissance as people are generally now more looking to look at the game's positive aspects. The OpenRCT2 team is also working on OpenLoco, which as the name would suggest, is to Chris Sawyer's Locomotion what OpenRCT2 is to RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. I'm glad to see that the game is slowly getting the love that it deserves, and if you're a fan of either OpenTTD, RCT1, or RCT2, then it's time to give this game an honest chance. Since OpenLoco is also in development, it'll only get better as time goes on. NOTE: Just like RCT1 and RCT2, the game does sometimes crash if you play it on Steam. I experienced a fair amount of crashing with the default game resolution, but as soon as I bumped it up to the middle resolution, I was able to play through the entire rest of the game without a single crash. Additionally, if you plan on playing OpenLoco, this will be a non-issue entirely. As a successor to Transport Tycoon, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion plays a lot like OpenTTD. In fact, there's a lot of quality of life improvements to this game that OpenTTD still doesn't have to this day including the fact that you can build stations underground, you can create bridges with turns in them, and you can actually rotate the camera (hallelujah)! Building underground is also easier because you're no longer constrained to a flat, straight line of track like you are in OpenTTD - If you found building a transporting network to be enjoyable in OpenTTD, you'll find it just as fun to build it in Chris Sawyer's Locomotion as well. This game is also easier to pick up and learn than OpenTTD due to the fact that it has a proper tutorial and beginner-level scenarios to help you figure out the game rather than OpenTTD which throws you to the wolves and tells you to figure it out. Given that the game is 10 years younger than its sibling game, the UI is also cleaner and it's more obvious what certain buttons do. This game even has a tram system, which OpenTTD doesn't. All of the same things we loved about Chris Sawyer's previous games are also here. This game has a better main menu theme than either RCT1 or RCT2 - Yeah, I said it. Fight me. In spite of this, it's impossible to ignore its shortcomings to OpenTTD. Unlike OpenTTD, there is no random map generator (there is a scenario editor, though you don't have that much control over what map the game generates in it), sandbox options, or a way to play with the AI disabled. This means that OpenTTD has a considerable edge over this game in terms of being "turn your brain off" games as you'll always need to have some focus on this game at all times. Additionally, the Performance Index system heavily encourages you to only use trains and ignore every other transport type entirely, because it's based on the total number of cargo you deliver relative to the distance it traveled to reach there. Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is a good game, and it's worthy of accompanying the other games in Sawyer's repertoire of iconic tycoon games. It came out too late for its own good, but OpenLoco is starting to give it the attention it deserved from the beginning, and it's always very cheap to buy. If you're a fan of either OpenTTD, or the first two RCT games, you should give this one a go. If nothing else, then just for the curiosity of this game that doesn't get that much attention, but you will find a lot to love about it like Sawyer's other games. Of course, downloading OpenLoco is also a good idea as well. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42368614-OutOfGames/]Steam Curator Page | [url=https://outof.games/news/8040-chris-sawyers-locomotion-is-an-underrated-gem-from-the-creator-of-rollercoaster-tycoon-a-timely-review/]Full Review
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A Classic as old as I am! A childhood favorite exactly as i remember it! Create transportation tycoons, build the world, and outperform competitors! If you love old computer games, particularly, by Chris sawyer, this is the game for you!
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20 years later, and if you haven't played this game already it's worth grabbing and doing a Google search for the OpenLoco community project. Also check out the Transport Tycoon forums for an extremely friendly community and modding help.
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This game is fantastic. I'm a huge fan of RollerCoaster Tycoon but I could never get into Transport Tycoon because of how different the two games played. This game is essentially Transport Tycoon but it plays extremely similarly to RollerCoaster Tycoon. I've spent 18 hours on this game already and I think I'm going to be spending a lot more on it in the future. For how cheap you can get this game during a sale, I recommend you a least give it a try with OpenLoco, the open source re-implementation of this game.
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Brilliant game, one of my all time favourites. However, it does have a tendency to crash suddenly and without warning which will corrupt your save file and force you to restart a scenario. If this wasn't the case, it would be in my top 5 all time games. It doesn't stop it from being an absolute gem of a game though!
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Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 5.99€ on Steam.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ received 531 positive votes out of a total of 615 achieving a rating of 8.11.
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Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ was developed by Chris Sawyer and published by Atari.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ is not playable on MacOS.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ is not playable on Linux.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ does not currently offer any DLC.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ does not support Steam Remote Play.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Chris Sawyer
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Atari
Release
17 Mar 2015
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