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Transport Fever 2 and its deluxe edition at historical lowest price (75% off for both) (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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$47.99 -> $11.99 for Deluxe Edition, $39.99 -> $9.99 for regular. Both offers end April 28.

Information on historical lows sourced from https://isthereanydeal.com/game/transport-fever-2/info and https://isthereanydeal.com/game/transport-fever-2-deluxe-edition/info

Difference between deluxe and regular according to a 2023 announcement from the devs:

3 exclusive handcrafted maps with scenarios across all landscape types to challenge your skills 6 new and exclusive historical vehicles to play with:

  • Hong Kong Meridian Ferry
  • McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
  • British High Speed Train HST ”Inter-City 125”
  • Kenworth K100E, Citroën U55 Currus Cityrama
  • Toyama Chihou Railway 8000 Series Tram

3 surprising new animals for the three landscape types: wolf, puma and tropical fishes

2 new in-game soundtracks from the two prequels Train Fever and Transport Fever

Those who already own Transport Fever 2 can upgrade to the Deluxe Edition with the Deluxe Upgrade Pack.

Let me know if big sale posts do not belong here. I figured I'd post this because Transport Fever 2 had one post about an update 7 months ago and that's it, game could be rementioned again.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This is a very, very good game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I can also strongly recommend it. Great gameplay and beautiful graphics.

Setting up vehicle level view for an airplane that goes through routes via your whole map is great fun.

Some late game screenshots from my last (~100 hour) game:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So I opened up the game for the very first time today before being called away to work before I could finish the tutorial or really get any impression of the game, besides: I was not expecting Transport Fever 2 to have voice acting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't even remember it having voice acting, as it's been years since I played what I am assuming is the tutorial. 😀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You probably switched it off in Settings or don't play Campaigns.

Ended up bouncing off for some reason I can't even describe. I can say it was less of an "absolutely not!" thing and more of a "hm this isn't really as fun as I thought it would be and the games I already have provide more fun" thing. And I was so excited to really like the game, too.

I will say being able to follow the vehicles, both from the driver's view (you can honk the horn! With a horse-drawn carriage the button to honk produces a neigh!) and from a third person view, was cool though. And mousing over people and finding they had NAMES was very unexpected and a pleasant surprise.

I remember Hades crediting the devs' dogs for making the dog sounds that are in the game. I wonder if anyone ever credited the horse that made the sound effect for this game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's really too bad. At least it was on heavy discount.

I do admit, it does take some time to get rolling, the initial game tends to be very planning and min-max heavy before you can start building out your network and influencing city growth.