City Transport Simulator Tram Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · January 31, 2025

City Transport Simulator Tram Review, Become an operations manager for the entire tram network in career mode! From humble beginnings and limited resources, start off with a brand new fully customizable tram operation. As you pick up and drop off your passengers on time and carry out other tasks, you’ll earn XP to level up and unlock more operational resources. Use these new resources to expand your tram lines, increase your fleet of vehicles, and work towards building a city-sprawling interconnected tram network.

City Transport Simulator Tram Review Pros:

Decent realistic graphics.
11.66GB Download size.
Steam achievements.
Optional Dovetail live integration.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – Colourblind support, Colourblind strength, and camera movement intensity.
Display settings – window mode, resolution, v-sync, and frame rate limit.
Graphics quality – preset, 3D resolution, global illumination, shadows, anti aliasing, View distance, textures, effects, reflections, post processing, motion blur quality, Ai car visibility distance, Ai car density, pedestrian density, and mirror performance.
Three controller presets.
Easy mode settings – simple driving controls, automated door controls, automated lights, Ai traffic, Ai trams, and Ai cars.
Vehicle options – deadman, destination displays automatically, derailing, increased brake force slider, automatic rail switch, and automatic rail switch set.
Custom controller setup for third-party controllers, wheels, and anything else you can get the game to recognize.
It’s good that the game has many options to make the game as simple or as advanced as you would like.
Profile setup – name (including text box for controller users to input name), and six avatar choices.
Tram driving and management gameplay.
Opening tutorial with ongoing pop-ups and a menu to reference.
Four driving views – cockpit, passenger view, out of the tram, and behind the tram.
A full 3D game world with 360-degree camera control.
The throttle is on the stick and is done so that it can slowly increase and decrease speed.
You can look all around no matter the view, you have mirrors to also help see passengers getting in and off.
One feature I really like is the speedo has the speed limit in there but also shows the distance to the next speed change and what it is.
A living breathing world that you feel a part of.
Two ways to play – regular and easy play. Basically, it’s having automation actions on or off and how in depth the control of the tram is.
You can set the game to be a Simulator or more of an arcade experience.
Uses the highway code in you learn about how to read the Tram lights, how to read the speed sign,s and more.
The game is a very zen like experience with enough going on to keep you engaged but you never feel overwhelmed.
Two game modes – career and sandbox.
Sandbox lets you choose any route, or any location to drive at your leisure.
Career mode is the meat of the game, you create your own tram company and have to setup routes, drive trams, and everything else needed.
Seven trams to drive each with there own liveries and unique stats fro max speed, seats, standing room, then the length of the tram and the type of tram.
In career mode, you can select your starting station which is where you will always begin on a new day.
Road rules are in use at all times from the speed to indicating at turns.
When selecting and creating your own routes you get to pick the time of day and start and end locations.
Earn EXP for performance and how well you respect the rules, you can build up a combo and you get a EXP earned pop up bar as its earned.
Earn EXP and level up to unlock new trams, liveries, and resources.
Every route will have a time limit and you are expected to stop at your designated stops in a certain time frame.
Day and night with different weather effects.
Even with the controller, you can bring up a long list of commands like high and low beam lights, doors, alarms, etc.
You share the tramlines with cars.
It’s satisfying seeing the XP combo popping up constantly or when you nail a tricky situation or even just obeying the rules.
Earn bonus points for stopping perfectly.

City Transport Simulator Tram Review Cons:

You cannot remap the controls.
No benchmark test option for the graphics and performance.
I couldn’t find a way to change it from kmh to mph.
The mirrors are not great at helping you check on passengers and are very small really.
The throttle allows you to feather the speed and it’s excellent but it is very easy to speed or brake harshly.
Parts of the game world look really blocky and unrealistic.
The music is not great.
It’s not always easy to see the tram lights especially in built up areas or when there is a couple of lights and traffic lights.
Ai can be a real pain from just walking out of nowhere to cars hitting you when you are stationary yet you get penalized.
You don’t have a radio or anything on the tram.
It is very easy to feel overwhelmed with the icons and markers and trying to remember what they mean.
Robotic-looking Ai models and movements.

City Transport Simulator Tram:

Official website.

Developer: ViewApp

Publisher: Dovetail Games

Store Links –

Steam