Urban Games and Paradox Interactive launched Transport Fever 3 on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S at once. The PC version is on Steam, the Epic Games Store and GOG, for Windows, Mac and Linux. The Standard Edition costs $49.99 on PC and $59.99 on consoles. Launching everywhere on the same day is new for the series. Transport Fever 2 came out on PC in December 2019 and reached consoles in March 2023.
You run a transport company through more than 125 years of history, from horse-drawn wagons to high-speed trains. You lay rail, roads, shipping lanes and air routes between towns and industries. Every delivery earns money, and every train, truck, ship or plane you own costs it. The towns and factories you serve grow or stall on the quality of that service. Maps come in four climates: temperate, desert, tropical and a new sub-arctic one. The launch announcement counts more than 300 vehicles, and helicopters join the series for the first time. A sandbox mode turns the economy off for players who only want to build.
What changed about money since Transport Fever 2
Basil Weber, Urban Games’ founder and CEO, named the old game’s weak spot himself. In a December interview with GamesMarkt, he said money was “often the only limiting factor” in Transport Fever 2. By the late game, he added, it “played hardly any role.” The sequel is his answer. The same interview counts 32 industry types, twice as many as Transport Fever 2, and 37 kinds of cargo. You can assign specific cargo to specific legs of a route. Goods can also sit in warehouses, which are depots that hold cargo until the next vehicle moves it on.
The publishing plan moved during development. Weber told GamesMarkt that the studio had largely paid for a budget of almost $25 million itself and would publish the game alone. In May, Paradox signed on as publisher, and the deal leaves the rights to the series with Urban Games. The Swiss studio was founded in 2013 in Schaffhausen, and it has made nothing but transport games since Train Fever in 2014.
Three editions, and a Mixed start on Steam
The launch announcement says the game reached No. 1 on Steam’s global bestseller list before release. Player reviews are less settled. On Wednesday morning, the Steam page rated it Mixed across 1,543 reviews in all languages, while English-language reviews were 71% positive. In the newest English reviews, the most common complaint was unstable frame rates, with stutter when the camera moves. Some reviewers also said the reworked interface takes more clicks than Transport Fever 2’s.
Anyone whose favorite part of a city builder is the traffic already knows this series, and the sequel aims at the late game that used to go slack. The Deluxe Edition costs $15 more on PC and on consoles. That buys six named vehicles, two landmarks, four animals, three handcrafted maps and a few extras. The vehicles include Concorde, which has always been the expensive option. The $119.99 Collector’s Edition adds a statue, a 200-page artbook and other boxed extras to a Deluxe key for Steam. None of it adds a system to the economy, so the Standard Edition on Steam or your console store is the one to buy. Waiting to see how Urban Games handles the frame-rate complaints costs nothing.
