OpenTTD, "About"

Cite as: OpenTTD, "About"
Original: https://www.openttd.org/about
sha256: 0c4f5dc5b1f4b97ca12656336d7ae829036dd8ef40b3b4a3f7e2e54b71b2d60c
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20260927151542/https://www.openttd.org/about
Accessed: 2026-10-26
Licence: OpenTTD is GPL v2; site text © the OpenTTD team. Wayback capture
Credit: The OpenTTD project's own About page, the first page a reader meets on the official site. Undated; the capture is from 27 September 2026.
Notes: Says the game is "based upon" Transport Tycoon Deluxe and "modelled after" Transport Tycoon, and that it "attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible". This is the project speaking for itself, so it is a primary statement of the whole-game edge.

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OpenTTD's About page says the game is based upon Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon Deluxe and attempts to mimic it as closely as possible while extending it with new features.	`About`	Publisher
OpenTTD's About page says many of its features were inspired by TTDPatch, and others are original. It doesn't name which.	`Features`	Publisher
OpenTTD's About page lists, among its "significant enhancements from the original game", bigger maps, multiplayer for up to 255 players, new pathfinding, conditional and shared orders, and "presignals, semaphores, path based signalling".	`FeaturesFeaturesFeaturesFeaturesFeaturesFeatures`	Publisher