Stoplights
Stoplights is a strategy simulation game about creating an efficient train network to support the growing needs of your cities. Make connections by building rails, control train routes with traffic signals to get essential resources where they need to be - in time.
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12 itemsAbout the Game
Stoplights is all about management, planning and efficiency. Your goal is to establish cities near resources, connect them together with rails and manage automatic train routes by placing traffic lights.
The needs of a city grow with time, so expect your rail network to be stress tested in an increasingly complex network of intermingling trains.
Inefficient routes, misplaced signals or lots of time spent waiting at a junction will be the difference between success and failure.
CORE MECHANICS
Build cities, rails, and train signals
Manage traffic by dividing long rails into shorter segments via signals
Indirectly control automatic train routes, which seek out nearest viable and unobstructed resources in connected cities
Win by reaching the last day without any city running out of demanded resources
Play at your own pace - pause or fast forward the simulation at will
MORE INFO
Includes tutorial videos to help grasp the game mechanics
Features a selection of hand crafted maps, with semi-random resource placements each time
Map scenarios are hand-crafted with pseudo-random outcomes to ensure fairness and balance, but also repeatability
12 difficulty settings to play around with, which influence score multiplier and replay value
Language-independent game, meaning there is virtually no text during gameplay (except for a few settings)
Difficulty-influenced leaderboards
Trains can collide with each other
