Updated on 17.1.14 If the dream in life is to be the minister of infrastructure and if you want to build the future bridge between Sicily and Africa, you have to start practicing!
In the virtual world of the internet you can be someone else and have real experiences that otherwise you could never try.
Simulation games have always been successful ever since the first " Sim City " came out many years ago, capable of turning anyone into a city mayor.
It seems almost masochistic but there are simulation video games where actually, there is to work and where one must commit, think and be careful to do the best, a completely different job from one's own.
On another page there are 10 strategic management games to administer commercial companies, countries and cities .
In this article we point out two games that all have one thing in common, they concern the means of transport in general, not in driving a race car but where you have to build, manage and drive public trains, airliners, enlarge the infrastructure of the country and be, in fact, a real Minister of Transport !
3 are the best free games to simulate transport management from a political and social point of view and that can be downloaded and installed for free.
1) Openttd is a declared and open source clone of a famous game of the genre called Transport Tycoon Deluxe so much so that the developers have tried to imitate the original game as much as possible by putting even more functions and possibilities of variations.
The goal of the game is to define the routes of trains, cars, boats, ships and planes within gigantic maps of territory to manage.
We need to build the infrastructure, rails and roads, then we have to draw the routes for ships and planes, build aqueducts, bring energy and, as in reality, bribe the authorities to build the Mess bridges ... (no that's not a game).
The game also offers multiplayer mode, and it is the nicest thing since you can play with up to 11 people in 8 different companies, or as spectators.
The game is quite complex, but you can also find a detailed manual on the wiki.
2) Simutrans is instead a transport simulator for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In the game, you have to manage trains, planes, buses, trucks, ships, trams, monorails and create an efficient traffic network within a city and between different cities even using high speed trains.
Fundamental is economic management to earn money from transport and to improve it and build new ones.
After downloading the game, you must download one of the "packages" within which there are several scenarios of varying difficulty.
To get started, you should download the recommended Pak64.
3) Rail Nation is a browser game which must not be downloaded and which can be played on the internet directly from any computer.
The aim of the game is to grow a railway network and earn money and prestige.
The game is multiplayer and it goes against other players who have the same goals as us.
We start from scratch and we need to develop fast locomotives and ever better trains to transport goods faster and further.
A different type of game OpenBVE realistic simulator to drive a train to the computer like a train driver .
If, on the other hand, you want to drive actively, you need the driving simulator for cars, trucks, buses, planes, ships and all types of vehicles .
For those who want simpler and more immediate games always linked to urban or national transport, apart from the flight simulator, I also propose Eurodriver a flash game in which you have to drive a Eurostar train .
There are commands to maneuver the train, so as not to create inconvenience to passengers and with the aim of making it arrive at its destination, without accidents and without delays.
It is very reminiscent of a similar game set in the Milan Metro which, however, no longer exists.
