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Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, one of the wonders of PC gaming, is coming to Steam

Smith, Graham. 2021. “Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, one of the wonders of PC gaming, is coming to Steam.” Rock Paper Shotgun.

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RPS, OpenTTD on Steam (2021)
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Graham Smith, Rock Paper Shotgun, 6 February 2021, on OpenTTD's first Steam release.
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A named review of the game's standing: "one of the seven wonders of PC gaming", still regularly maintained after fifteen years, and preferred over later transport sims.

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Rudge writes that the move to GitHub in 2018 and the release on Steam in 2021 re-energised development. Rock Paper Shotgun reported in February 2021 that OpenTTD would reach Steam on 1 April, with the 1.11 update, after it had reached the Microsoft Store; the changelog dates 1.11.0 to 1 April 2021.paragraph 1paragraph 3paragraph 3Dev blog
Graham Smith of Rock Paper Shotgun called OpenTTD "one of the seven wonders of PC gaming" in 2021, and wrote that for his money later successors such as Transport Fever and Rise of Industry never recapture its "sedate joy of tinkering with trains and lorries".paragraph 1paragraph 4Web