Transport Empire: Steam Tycoon

I actually enjoy a lot of the depth and strategy of this game, but like too many mobile games, you eventually hit a wall. Still I tried to push through and spent about 2 weeks farming and had 2 options of new areas to open. One to advance the story and one to help me farm better. So I went with the latter only to find out that the thing that let's me farm is locked until I unlock yet another area. So I'm left with another 2 weeks of boredom or quitting. Parts and money are just far too rare.

Like others have noted, the game requires a lot of patience as you wait for parts unless you spend actual money. I also noticed that parts sometimes disappear from inventory. At first I thought I wasn't paying enough attention when repairing carriages, so I have been double-checking each time I use parts to build or repair. Sure enough, I'm short on valves, linkages, etc. Very disappointing, and if that keeps happening I'll probably stop playing. It's a shame, though, because I've enjoyed all other aspects of gameplay, even the translated English dialogue.

The good: the cartoonish graphics are gorgeous. The bad: everything else. Basically, after the promising and frantically-paced tutorial, the game grinds to an absolute halt. Everything takes forever to do, down to the most menial resource scraping. And every possible upgrade involves ridiculous amounts of resources and time, unless of course you're willing to pay. Pity on such potential.

Good game with very nicely designed interface, though the "storyline" does tend to straight-jacket gameplay after a while, like a tutorial that never ends. Unfortunately the game seems to have been abandoned with no updates for 3+ years (which they keep reposting to look like its recent). The game has even stopped trying to sell items, some of which are not available in regular gameplay, for the last few months. It's a real shame that such a classy game has been left to die.

This game is fun at first and has tons of potential. However, as you play it becomes horribly redundant as you search and scrape for parts and silver. For example, I've reached a level to unlock a new area but it's a total pain trying to reach the 60k silver or 100 gold required to unlock it. Every time I reach 45k silver, it drops to 30k because it's needed elsewhere to keep the game running. The cost in resources, silver, and parts are extremely unbalanced and too high. That prevents you from using things like airships to their potential. I'd love to see this game become more playable by balancing costs better.

Over all gameplay is decent. The primary issue that I have with the game is that any items left on screen when another dialog pops up our lost rather than being added to your stores. For example, when I tap to finish a contract for steel, and it levels me up, the level up dialog causes all the steel to disappear and is not added to my total in my warehouse. This glitch has caused me to lose a lot of resources over the course of playing the game.

It looks nice, sounds nice and it is interesting to learn the controls, but once that is sorted the process goes like this: wait for 1-2 minutes for the game to load, play for 1 minute, wait for 20+ minutes for actions to complete so you can start the next waiting sequense. The game area is also limited and the choices are limited, so there's no apparent possibility for strategy. Also, if you want to build a locomotive, you need to build parts first, but there's a lottery of which part is built.

Feels almost like a PC game rather than a phone app - they've packed in many aspects to gameplay, with nice mixture of trains, boats and airships, and an ongoing storyline that helps give you purpose without being too directive. Most impressive is the way they have worked the few adverts and the helpful control interface into the game theme, keeping the roleplay of the scenario. Solo-player game so doesn't suffer from pay-to-win and is still very playable with no or minimal spending.

I played a lot of bad tutorials but this takes the cake: Handholding - click the button, cannot do anything else. Textboxes - get told what a button does, but not shown, because instead of seeing what you did you need to press the next button. Mark of a greedy game - forced to pay for skip as part of the tutorial. But the original not seen anywhere else, time does NOT pass until you skip.

very interesting game at first. but when start to continue the game after the tutorial, i found it start to be boring. too long to wait for mining resources, and too difficult for upgrade or build things (my quest just need to build residence home that need many resources and until now, look still too far to go). if you put less time for collect stuff and less hard to progress i think i will stay to play.

Previously played this years ago. Would still be an enjoyable 1 player game during breaks throughout the day.... Except its infested with bugs it didn't have during that previous mentioned year i played and IN GAME PURCHASES WITHDRAW THE CHARGE WITHOUT DELIVERING PURCHASED ITEMS, slow to respond ineffective support responds directing uninstalling then reinstalling claiming it fixes it.. yet ya lose all progress, materials, and items doing so and still doesnt fix purchase issues.

I played this game before and had a lot of fun with it. However I recently downloaded the onto a new device. When I try to sync my new device with my past progress, it will not sync. I hit the button for support and the page that appears has no way to contact support on it. So therefore the one star rating will stay until the issue is fixed.

Pretty darn neat. Glad to find something without a ton of spam advertisements I don't care about as well as no MMO. It's great to just build without being farmed like most mobile games. The text is a bit small and there is a learning curve. Nonetheless worthy of a download and fun thus far. If you're a steampunk fan, definitely make space for it

It's great game, some minor things that I would change, things that are more mater of taste. Bigest issue that I have for now is the daily log in reward. For me atleast is 24h after the prize I collected the previous day, it would be great if we can collect the reward after some fixed time every day. Keep up the great work hope to see some new things and features in near future. And I hope that you can fix as soon as possible this with the daily reward.

Also it would be great if you can add 3 more options to the control center. 1. Resources available, 2. Vehicles to be repaired, 3. Crafting window. Acquiring each city is very difficult. Takes too much time. I thought I was badly addicted and didn't Saw a way out. Now I lost interest and got Free from addiction. Not playing this game anymore. Just wondering whether I should uninstall or not.

Hi, game has potential to be 5 stars, but hiding requirements on upgrades by removing white font on dark background makes upgrade planning impossible. I repeat: lack of transparency on upgrades and upgrade tree makes planning impossible as resources are spent thinking all conditions are met, and then other requirements are ate sprung on us making logical play impossible. Deleting. Cheers

Support is non existent, every time i try to connect for support, it is "inaccessible at this time" and to "try again later" Could be a fun freemium game, but the care just isnt there. Constantly crashes on startup, slow, laggy gameplay. Its the little engine that couldn't.

This game looks quite good but it will soon makes you feel bored. Two years without any update, well, it's no longer interesting or special anymore. Yeah, 4 🌟 for a game like this though its graphics are cool. Again, the gameplay is just okay as well as the storyline and nothing more.

Dreadful game! Almost impossible to progress to next level. Complicated interface and it's taken over 35 hours of play to build the first airship. Times for basic stock too long, upgrading very complicated, need to buy a LOT of gold to make any progress.

Extraordinary graphics. Good story. But advancing in the game is very slow, limited by the amount of "parts", which are demanded in large quantities for all transport vehicles. Uninstalled at level 15, will probably install it again if boredom hits me to hard 🙂.

You can only get up to lvl 3 without paying cash. Then you are stuck because you have to upgrade your storage space. To do this you need to upgrade your administration to next level. But you need more resources than your storage can carry to proceed. So the developers is forcing you to buy it with cash if you would like to proceed. I really enjoyed the game up to here. Now deleting it.

You are not free to build the empire you want. You have to follow what the game want you to do. Too limited for me I need more elements to manage like a real boss. Graphics are great and the game seems to have a lot of transportation kind but be a bit boring for me.

Their system glitched when I purchased gold and gave me extra gold so it blocked me from joining their weeklies. I contacted their support team and they have told me that I have to create a new email account and they will transfer my purchases and that means I start from the very beginning of the game. Don't download this game they have a very bad support system, the support button in the game doesn't even work. It doesn't even deserve 1 star.

Starts off kind of fun, but quickly turns into long waits to do anything, unless you want to pay to play. That's all this game seems to be about, especially considering all the ads that bombard you when opening the game. From reading the other comments, this seems to have been a fun game previously, but pay to play has ruined it.