National Transit

Potential in its purest form. I can imagine a story mode with a country starting in 1850 slowly expanding the infrastructure, with the adoption of trains, cars and so on and possibly research. with events (wars, wirtschaftswunder, emigration and immigration campaigns) essentially being the backbone of a nation. So many ideas for one person XD There are some bugs, refreshing of information is done by opening windows. So you constantly have to close and open windows. Overall its currently a fun sidequest for 5 bucks

For $4? An absolute steal. I hope they continue to develop it, deeper mechanics and UI upgrades are always a step in the right direction, but the low cost scares me into thinking this might be a release and forget moment, it’s thankfully worth it but am cautiously optimistic for its future!

Below are the grades I have for the game after 24 hours of playtime with the Early Access 0.1 version. LEARNING CURVE: C+, Most of the game is pretty straight forward and there is a mini-tutorial included. But some of the mechanics are never really explained and how they affect the game (Buildings/Policies). FUN: C, This basically boils down to, "Do you like making maps". If yes, then this will be fun for you. If not, this is not going to be your thing. there is no Story mode (though there are a few achievements to follow), so really you have to use a bit of your imagination for the Fun aspect of the game. The dynamic growth of the settlements and region is really cool to watch grow! REPLAYABILITY: B+, I find the map generator pretty neat. Wish there were additional features, but overall its a good sandbox map game. UI / VISUALS: B, The map is great, but I feel most of the game is hidden in tables that are not as user friendly. Also there are a plethora of keyboard shortcuts which could be helpful but seem difficult to master. SOUND: D+, There is some in-game music thats just kinda there, but otherwise no sounds that I have noticed. BUGS: B-, There are no game breaking bugs that I have found yet, but it is a little troublesome in some areas of mostly visual bugs. The game could really benefit from a lot of QoL features that hopefully get added in the future. PRICE: A+, Even in its current state, the game is very much worth the value. OVERALL: B- but with great potential for an A. Basically, if you like maps, you will like this game.

I'm utterly thrilled with the existence of this game. It's still early, but I sense very strongly that the dev has the same kinds of inclinations and fascinations in the field of sim/strategy/management gaming that I have for a long time. I'm naturally very fond of games like Transport Fever, OpenTTD, and so on—but when I play them, I almost always get to a point *very early* on where I'm like... "this would be so much more interesting for me if I were not a private enterprise", and I spend the rest of the game pretending myself to be some sort of state-owned enterprise. Beyond any personal political biases I think may be responsible for/inform that, this game sort of nails why I think I feel that way: I'm finding it *very* compelling to act as an entity responsible for overseeing the polity's transportation services as a whole and commanding that underlying human-geographic development in holding that responsibility. As another reviewer aptly put it, the fun/fulfillment you get out of this is definitely largely contingent on whether you enjoy staring at/drawing maps. In that capacity, I'm already finding the otherwise relatively simple base of this game to be really stimulating to my imagination. The simple base, at the same time, seems like an incredibly robust foundation for a lot more imagination. The fact that there's a significant component of fleshing out the *world* of your country—complete with flags, province/city/national names, and map labels—along with the dev's plans to create a somewhat encyclopedic compendium of countries in the game as a larger exercise in worldbuilding, well beyond transit (yet driven centrally by it, given the raison d'etre of this game in specific), tells me that this game has a really bright future that I'll be following super closely.

Unfortunately, I can't give this game a neutral review, but I also can't recommend it right now. I really like the premise of the game and I think it has lots of potential. I honstly think I might love this game in the future, but right now I can't enjoy it, mainly for technical reasons. [list] [*]Firstly, I've been using Linux (Bazzite) as my main OS for over half a year now and unfortunately this game was the first one I couldn't immediately play with Proton enabled. I managed to get the game running by installing Microsoft Edge and WebView2 through Protontricks, but even after over 4 hours of tinkering with it and trying out different possible solutions, I wasn't able to solve a bug that made the game register every mouse-click at the wrong spot, which made playing the game and even clicking button very tedious. [*]On my Windows 11 partition on the same PC the game did work, but I still encountered the same performance issues I also encountered on Linux. For example when trying to build a road on a large size map between two cities (distance of a bit less than half a county between them) the game freezes for more than 25 seconds regularily before I get shown the possible routes. Also when I try to upgrade even small sections of road the game usually freezes for over 5 seconds, somethimes more than 10 seconds, which makes playing the game feel very sluggish, especially for a map-game. I also experience lots of freezes when navigating the map (zooming in or out, or moving up, down, left, or right). I haven't read about this kind of performance issues in other reviews, so they might be connected to my specific Build, but as I don't have any performance issues like this in any of the other games I play, I feel like I should mention it. [/list] Lastly two more or less neutral points: [list] [*]The developer(s) don't seem to respont to the steam-discussions (at the moment). Which I honstly don't mind too much, as I hope this time and energy might go into improving the game. [*]The game uses AI-generated music. I personally don't like it at all, so I turn the music off in the settings, but I would still prefer royalty-free music and I hope it changes in the future. [/list] All in all I really hope this game improves over time, because I would really love to enjoy it in the future. I wish the developer(s) all the best

Loads of potential here. Kinda rough and bare bones at the moment, but the dev has been very active and receptive, and has already made a bunch of much needed improvements and additions in the short time National transit has been out. The roadmap that just came out looks pretty sweet, and i really hope the dev is able to swing it that far. Definitely give it a chance if this kind of thing catches your interest.

架空の国を作れるゲーム。道路、鉄道、航空、水運などで都市をつなげ、発展させていくゲームです。 都市の名前や、中に作る施設も決められるので、どんな都市にするか考えるのが楽しいです。 開発者の方へ： 1.州・県の名前をマップ上に表示した状態で名前を変更し、ワールドデータをセーブする 2.メインメニューからそのセーブデータを読み込む 以上の手順を実行すると、州・県の名前がデフォルト生成されたものに戻ってしまいます。 修正をお願いしたいです！ A game where you can build your own fictional country. You connect and develop cities through roads, railways, air routes, and waterways. Since you can decide city names and the facilities built within them, it's really fun thinking about what kind of cities to create. To the developers: I've noticed the following bug: 1. Rename a state/prefecture while its name is displayed on the map, then save the world data. 2. Load that save data from the main menu. After performing these steps, the state/prefecture names revert to the default generated ones. Hope you can take a look at this when you get a chance!

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A wonderfully built time killer for those who love logistics and city builders. For being what I though was bare bone game. It was very in depth game. Between maintenance costs for every road, with its speed limit, cargo capacity, traffic use, and so much more. Was awesome to figure out the citizens were going around the toll road causing severe traffic back ups in other areas. 10/10 game with amazing potential.

Amazing concept and potential and already is fun. Ready to watch this one grow.