Anyone else play or have played Logistical?

The Game Room
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I’m extremely addicted to it, at the moment.
IMO, it’s not very different from other “build up resources, expand, and take over” games like Civilization, Sim games, and Minecraft.
Curious if anyone else here plays.

Summery of what it’s about in case you don’t play, but are curious as to what it is, roughly:

Summary

On the surface, it may sound like a boring game..and I won’t expect it to appeal to many. I think you have to be of a certain mindset or personality to enjoy a game like Logistical.

What you do in it…well…

You start out looking at a map. It’s your basic map (in my case it’s a map of AUSTRALIA)..and you see the cities and towns on it.

You are wayyyy zoomed in, though…so you see lil specific towns and their names.

So, say..the town of COLE…

the game will start out by saying COLE NEEDS/WANTS POTATOES.

It will also tell you that the nearby town of BANGOR has potatoes. Your first mission is simple: Take the potatoes from Bangor to Cole.

Easy right? Because the town of Bangor MAKES potatoes, see? So it always has them on hand.

Okay, now another town…TIMOR…wants potatoes. Take potatoes to TIMOR. From Bangor, remember?

Well, now Bangor wants something. Wheat. It wants WHEAT. Hmmmm.

Ahhh, look at this…COLE makes wheat. Yeah. It wanted potatoes earlier, but it can also make wheat.

So you are delivering things… many things… bread, wheat, beef, potatoes, tomatoes, oats, sheep, cows. You have a lil truck icon on the map that moves…and it goes fast, not like…the typical time it takes to get from one town to another (hours sometimes)…no, this does it in SECONDS.

Okay, so you do that, but that’s not all. See, you can UPGRADE many things. You level up towns, vehicles, industries (these are the things in the towns that MAKE the things it makes). You can upgrade your truck to carry more weight. You can upgrade industries to make more product, you can buy more trucks, you can upgrade how fast your trucks go, you upgrade cities to have NEW industries…

…and there are easily over 500 different industries in the game. Flour, Sugar, Computers, Robots, Tulips, Electronics, Beef, MUNG BEANS

Once you deliver the stuff to a town (all the stuff it requests), that town is then “completed”. You need to complete all the towns to win. In the AUSTRALIA map I’m playing, that’s over 1,000 towns and cities. Some towns want more than one thing. Some towns want a LOT of one thing.

You are always continually upgrading and leveling up Industries, towns, trucks, roads, and products.

The town of Mecer makes computers…but needs Circuit boards and Batteries to make them… and the town of Douglas? Wants 50 computers.

Oh, no, you don’t have to make OR deliver them one by one…you can upgrade, remember? To make things faster, to make MORE things, to deliver more…to go faster…

It’s a very, very addicting game.

100 hours on the Australia map myself…but there are maps of the US, specific states, Russia, New Zealand, Spain, Norway, Germany, Italy, France, and over 20 other countries. They even have an ENTIRE WORLD/EARTH one you can do if you buy the LOGISICAL 3 pack.

I’m hooked. And if you buy the base game, Logistical, for ten bucks, the AUSTRALIA map is FREE…comes included.

The other countries and states? DLC that you have to buy, but I plan to.

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Sounds like my type of game, where is it available?

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Well, I’m playing it on Steam, which is an online app/download that runs games on your computer, like a PC game would be. It may be elsewhere, though.

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Can you download it, or do you run it on Steam?

I’ve barely ever used Steam, excuse my ignorance.

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No worries, I was a Steam novice too once.

You download Steam…that’s it. Then you buy the game and it will do the work, running it off of there. The game will still be downloaded to your computer, but it will be IN STEAM, as in, you’ll need to have steam open and be using it to play the game. But Steam allows you to buy tons (some have thousands) of games on the Steam website itself and then play them on your laptop or desktop.
I’m playing steam on my laptop right now. I think it may work on mobile too, but not sure. I KNOW one can use Steam on mobile too, has an app for the phone…but whether all or some games run well or at all on your phone, well…that’s up to the game, I’d guess.

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Is this the game? LOGistICAL on Steam

I’m intrigued, but I don’t quite understand it. What is the actual mechanism of the gameplay (if that makes any sense)? Like I know you’re connecting trade routes and upgrading things over time, but it’s not super clear to me what the meat & bones of the game is. It isn’t a true 4X game like Civilization, where you have to manage production, diplomacy, combat, etc. It’s not a routing game like Mini Metro, Railway Empire, or Transport Fever either? It’s also not a colony sim like the Anno series or Tropico?

The gameplay videos don’t really explain what’s going on… like are you actually commanding individual vehicles (trucks) to go from point A to B to C, etc., doing the individual deliveries yourself…? How does that scale up when you have a whole supply network of different goods going to and fro, are you still the one manually driving the truck around to every point?

FYI, Steam is a marketplace only for computer games, not mobile games. Although there is a mobile version of the Steam app, that’s still for buying or managing your computer games only (as in, you can browse the latest sales on your phone, but if you buy the game, you’d only be able to play it on a computer). Steam is only for computer games (PC, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck), but it is the de facto standard for buying games on those platforms.

EVEN if there is a mobile version of a given game, that is separate version you must individually pay for on your phone’s own app store (Play Store or App Store) — your Steam purchase will not automatically transfer over to a mobile version. They are completely separate ecosystems.

In this case, the Logistical website seems to be down completely (it’s a 2017 game) and I couldn’t find any info on a possible mobile version.

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PS @What_Exit: One really nice thing is that Steam has a generous refund policy. If you buy this game or any other, you have up to 2 hours of playtime, within 2 weeks of purchase, to try it out. If you run into issues or you just don’t like it, you can return it for a full refund: Steam Refunds

So it’s a good, risk-free way to try titles you are not quite sure if you’ll like.

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Well, having played CIV and games like Railway Empire (Mini Metro is great too, although I wouldn’t liken it to the other ones you linked it in with)…I can tell you that Logistical is very similar to those.
It’s a transport game and yes, you direct each truck where to go and when to go and what routes to go. You control pretty much everything in game, although it’s not as hard or complicated as you seem to be thinking of… I am running and controlling 15 trucks at once right now and it’s no sweat.
Best I can say is… if it intrigues you that much, buy it and try it. It has a really good tutorial. I played the first two tutorial counties before starting the Australia map (although the Australia map also does a good job of teaching the game)…those would be ABC Island and the Isle of Man…and they do a great job of explaining the basics.

I have to be honest, though… when I first started and opened the game, it was a huge case of “OMG, too much, too soon”. It was like that Chivalry game, whatever it’s called… with so many buttons and so much on the interface and oh my goodness what does this button do and what does this one do and will I ever even need to use it all??
But as I went through the tutorial towns and 100 percented them, it gives you almost a step by step guide on how it all works and it is not as complicated as it looks…or sounds, apparently.
It’s a leveling up and upgrading transport game… you are delivering goods from one town (where they make it) to another (that wants it). You do that and the town is “completed”. The object is to complete all towns. What more to a game do you need? Haha… like I said, it may sound boring but it’s not, trust me. At least I don’t find it boring, but hey, some may. A lot may…you may, even…
…as for it being a 2017 game, it still is updated, In fact, the latest really big update, which they added on and called “Logistical 3: Earth” came out much more recently.

Yes, it is that Logistical on steam that you linked to.

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I would call it a routing game, I guess… upon reread of your description of it. Like in Mini Metro, you control all of the trucks yourself, one at a time. Unlike Mini Metro though (which I find a bit difficult and frazzling), Logistical is not overly stressful, it’s very casual. It’s not a slow game either, although you can Idle it,…and sometimes may want to…but it has upgrades to increase the speed as time goes on. Yes, you even level up time in the game, haha.

I would liken it best to Railway Empire, though. In fact, a person on FB told me she thinks the game most closely resembling it might be the board game EMPIRE BUILDER. I’ve never played it, but she says it’s a lot like that… if you’ve played that.

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I don’t know if you recall but I picked it up quite a while ago, based on your recommendation elsewhere. Never did much with it, though, mainly because I have so many other games vying for my attention.

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I go back and forth on it. It’s a good cozy game for when you just don’t want to stress about anything. I’ve got Chile to about 15%, and I’m at the point where progress starts to ramp up fairly quickly.