Transport Giant
Skip · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 43.9h 100h to 100%
- Value
- $0.05/hr
- Reviews
- 62% of 494 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
It is 80% off today.
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
It's the year 1850 - The world is changing. A new era of mass production and mass transportation has begun. For a smart businessman there are many opportunities. With a little money and good ideas you can establish a business empire.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 77 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sweet Transit ($5.99, scores 21) beats it on value, while it beats Cities in Motion 2 ($19.99, scores 4).
More about Transport Giant
Inside the two-hour refund window, 27 percent of the 118 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 43.9 hours. Doing everything runs 100, 2.3 times as long.
The drop-off
45% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
This is the WORST conversation i know, the max maps are smaller than the original, the transport rout list do not refeseh while the lists are open... and the system ist laggy as hell als well asl 100% CPU load? WTF get the original, I still own it on DVD, this "polisched" Version is the opposite of evolution. Better get the DRM free version in a well known store, its the original withou issues... this is mere like a...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Very disappointed, the game keeps crashing and if you want to stay sane backing up every ten minutes or so when you are upgrading or building extensions.
A good old game, still as enjoyable as it was 20 years ago. There's something about it that the TF series can't quite eclipse. But the interface buttons have been greatly reduced in size and the sidebar is not as intuitive as before.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Transport Giant scores 10/100 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/271370/transport-giantReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.