OpenTTD on Steam cost money since March 2026

[prissi]

Apparently, Atari bought the rights from Chris Sawyer for Transport Tycoon Deluxe and forced OpenTTD to become a downloadable content for the latter, costing $9.99.

Seems like Simutrans is the only free transport game on Steam now.

[martin509]

Yes indeed, though OpenTTD is still available as a free download outside of Steam.

[victor_18993]

Seriously? I thought that since OpenTTD was based on Transport Tycoon, which was practically abandonware, they couldn't enforce a patent or copyright. So did OpenTTD become paid?

It's a shame, because the work done by the OpenTTD community doesn't belong to Atari, but to the OpenTTD community that has kept it alive. I don't like this kind of news; I hope OpenTTD can somehow separate from Atari.

[martin509]

The main way I see OpenTTD separating from Atari would be if they developed a resource pack that replaces every single asset from Transport Tycoon Deluxe with a generic equivalent, like how Freedoom did the same for Doom. However I'm not aware of any plans in the OpenTTD community for doing this.