Sweet Transit
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $5.99.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 67% of 1,277 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, 512 MB or AMD Radeon HD 6670, 1 GB, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
37 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $5.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. Factory Town ($19.99, scores 79) outscores it, and so does Transport Fever 2 ($39.99, scores 79). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Sweet Transit
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 669 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 717 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 169 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
68% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
It was on sale at 80% off, and since I'm a fan of several adjacent genres, including OpenTTD and Factorio, I decided to give it a try. Considering the current price (8,100 KRW / $6.99 USD), I thought it is worth trying. The core concept is appealing and the game seems to have some interesting ideas. However, I'm still not sure what is supposed to motivate the endgame. Is the main goal simply to build increasingly...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
I bought this when it first came out, I really enjoyed it. Left it a while, then read poor reviews. Today I thought it can't be that bad, reinstalled it, what a steaming pile this has turned into. When are developers going to realise they are not as bright as they think they are, if it ain't broke don't try to "fix" it.
What a frustrating and finicky game. I've restarted the tutorial plenty of times trying to make heads or tails from it all. The tutorial doesn't seem to really explain everything it needs to. You are required to build stuff, but if it's mentioned that buildings have context building menus, it's something I figured out by trial and error. Next, it requires me to build a train depot, that somehow positions different...
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Cite this score
Sweet Transit scores 21/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1612770/sweet-transitReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.