Simulation
Transport Fever
Give it 15 hours
Gets good by 15h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 66% of owners
Steam reviews 83% positive of 10,870
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (61%); after 35h it's 1 in 14 (7%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- The opening is criticised more than in 90% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 66% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 10,877 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 293 reviews: 48h for positive, 11.1h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (65.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (53)
story milestone ending side
- First line Create a line with at least two stops. 100%
- First bus stop Build a bus stop. 95%
- Year 1900 Reach the year 1900 without going bankrupt. 92%
- First train station Build a train station. 90%
- First bus arrived Buy a bus and run a line. 89%
- First passenger waiting Setup a line so that town residents use your vehicles. 87%
- First cargo item waiting Connect industries. 87%
- First passenger transported Run a line and transport a passenger. 86%
- First cargo item transported Connect industries and transport a cargo item. 85%
- First steam train arrived Buy a steam train and run a line. 81%
- Year 1950 Reach the year 1950 without going bankrupt. 77%
- First industry upgraded Let an industry upgrade. 77%
- Transport millionaire Accumulate a fortune of 1 million (without debt). 61%
- Transport master Accumulate a fortune of 10 million (without debt). 56%
- First hurdle Complete the tutorial. 56%
- First electric train arrived Buy an electric train and run a line. 56%
- Mass production Reach 400 production capacity at a production site. 54%
- First ship arrived Buy a ship and run a line. 50%
- Year 2000 Reach the year 2000 without going bankrupt. 50%
- City Have a town with a population of at least 750. 46%
- First aircraft arrived Buy an aircraft and run a line. 45%
- Transport shark Accumulate a fortune of 100 million (without debt). 44%
- Crowd in a train Have a train filled with at least 100 passengers. 40%
- Penny pincher Don't take any additional loan until the year 2000. 36%
- Examplary student Earn all tutorial medals. 36%
- The ugly smell of success Have at least 300 passengers waiting in a train station. 30%
- High speed Reach a top speed of 180 km/h. 30%
- Train Fever Reach the year 2000 using only trains. 27%
- Transport tycoon Accumulate a fortune of 1 billion (without debt). 25%
- Metropolis Have a town with a population of at least 1500. 22%
- Heavily loaded Have a train filled with at least 250 cargo items. 21%
- No free seats Have a train filled with at least 200 passengers. 17%
- Truck Fever Earn 50 million not using any train. 14%
- Shark of America Complete the America campaign. 11%
- Industry provider Reach at least 60% coverage for every industry good in a town. 10%
- Cannot get enough Build a train line with at least 10 trains in motion. 10%
- Commerce provider Reach at least 60% coverage for every commercial good in a town. 9.3%
- Complete coverage Reach at least 80% passenger line usage in a town. 7.2%
- Shark of Europe Complete the Europe campaign. 6.9%
- Year 2000 reached (in Hard mode) Don't go bankrupt and reach the year 2000 in Hard mode. 6.4%
- Industrialist Serve all industries. 5.8%
- Speed of light Reach a top speed of 300 km/h. 5.8%
- Penny pincher (in Hard mode) Don't take any additional loan until the year 2000 (in Hard mode). 5.2%
- Transport shark (in Hard mode) Accumulate a fortune of 100 million (without debt) in Hard mode. 5.0%
- Campaign shark Complete all campaigns. 4.4%
- Antique Keep a train built before 1900 running until the year 2000. 3.7%
- Transport tycoon (in Hard mode) Accumulate a fortune of 1 billion (without debt) in Hard mode. 3.5%
- Sonic boom Reach speeds beyond the sound barrier. 3.4%
- Glacier express Have a train line that rises higher than 450 meters. 2.9%
- Museum line Build one line containing at least one of every passenger road vehicle that was available between 1850 and 2020. 1.8%
- Tycoon of America Earn all America campaign medals. 1.7%
- Tycoon of Europe Earn all Europe campaign medals. 1.5%
- Campaign tycoon Earn all medals. 1.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.