Transport Fever
Fair · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.4985% offFair
- Cost per hourA
- $1.18/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 10,879
- Critics
- 71 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 25.4h
- To 100%
- 98.4h 3.9x the story
- Achievements
- 53
Price and sales
- Sales
- 83 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 77 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
66% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
83 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Transport Fever 2 ($39.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Voxel Tycoon ($24.99, scores 51).
More about Transport Fever
71 from critics against 83 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 637 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 596 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
25.4 hours to finish it, 98 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.9 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.99 (90% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Do yourself a favor and get the sequels instead. The industries and passengers are incredibly frustrating to deal with on all levels. For industries what I assume is happening they have no idea of a supply chain in their code. i.e. try running a long ship line, where the producing industry will only ship out a first burst of goods and then arbitrarily stop, presumably because it thinks it would overfill the target...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Where the damn hell is the Nikola Tesla's laboratory? If you decide to assign your player to a designated objective, at least do highlight it on the map!
Fun game where you move stuff and people which allows cities to grow. Can you planes, boats, trucks, trams, and trains.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon HD 5670, 1 GB VRAM, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Transport Fever scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/446800/transport-feverReviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.