Welcome to Simutrans Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions by buiding a transport network you always dreamed of. Planes, ships, trains, trams, trucks, busses and monorails are at your disposal. You can control and watch your finances and the traffic of your vehicles and goods. You can play as long as you like. Start in 1880 and finish in 2050. There will be new vehicles and buildings throughout this time. Cities will grow and merge forming metropolises. Play against the AI or on your own. Only if you are in debt for three months, you are bankrupt and the game is over.
Simutrans has its own window management, because it has to run on such different platforms as Linux, BeOS and Windows. The next screenshot shows some information windows and the relief map which can be used to navigate easily from one side of the world to the other. The relief map gives also a global view of the world of Simutrans, which is actually an isolated island. Quite some of the information windows are also used to interact with the program, i.e. to change the schedule of a train or to change your vehicles colors, the language settings, the display settings etc.