OpenTTD asks people to please stop being mad at Atari for forcing the game off Steam: 'OpenTTD as a project retains its full independence,' and you can still get it for free

OpenTTD asks people to please stop being mad at Atari for forcing the game off Steam: ‘OpenTTD as a project retains its full independence,’ and you can still get it for free | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Sim You’ve got a narrow window to nab OpenTTD on Steam for free, because Transport Tycoon Deluxe has just been un-abandonwared by Atari Platforms Wrestling the Steam ‘Goliath,’ pulling a Nightdive, and seeing off vulture capital: GOG chats the risks and opportunities of its future as a company without CD Projekt Roguelike Slay the Spire 2 is one of the year’s biggest hits, which is a good time to remember it abandoned Unity because of the dev fee debacle: ‘That is how badly you f****d up’ Platforms GOG declares ‘The future of preservation is decided by players who give a sh*t’ after New Blood CEO expresses concern for the storefront’s lifespan Gaming Industry CEO of Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse wants it to be ‘a positive influence and a great company for 100 plus years’ by fighting AI and treating devs ethically Platforms In response to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney waging war on Steam, Larian’s publishing lead says, ‘Giving everyone everything for free might bump numbers but doesn’t create a viable storefront’ Platforms GOG owns up to its poor handling of Devotion’s delisting in 2020: ‘We acknowledge that this decision understandably damaged the trust our users have in us’ VR Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod disappears after mod maker decides he’d rather take it down than make it free Gaming Industry New Blood CEO Dave Oshry says he’s ‘always loved GOG’ but ‘they need enough people to give a s**t, or how long are they even going to be around’ Gaming Industry ‘Turns out having your game be free on Epic is great advertising for Steam sales’: New Blood chief says Blood West sold ‘like 200% more’ the day it was a freebie on EGS Sim I didn’t expect to kidnap alligators, save Woodstock or give people dysentery in a game called Transport Fever 3—but here we are Horror ‘They have effectively ghosted us:’ publisher of delisted art game Horses lambasts Epic Games Store after executive claims ‘we love that studio’ Games ‘Steam is winning with its ease of use,’ GOG’s new owner says, but he’s not interested in picking a fight: ‘I think much can be done in GOG without losing its core values and the way it operates’ Sim After planning 2 more paid acts, narrative scifi power-washer Ambrosia Sky is instead finishing its story in one free update to ‘maximize’ its focus on what players loved: ‘People got in on that sapphic yearning right away’ Gaming Industry ‘There would be no Alan Wake 2 without Epic Publishing,’ Remedy says in defense of Epic’s deals with developers: ‘The publishing deal with Epic was very fair to Remedy’ PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!MarathonGDCBest PC gearQuizzes Games Sim OpenTTD asks people to please stop being mad at Atari for forcing the game off Steam: ‘OpenTTD as a project retains its full independence,’ and you can still get it for free News By Andy Chalk published 20 March 2026 OpenTTD developer Owen Rudge says “Atari have worked collaboratively with us,” and it also put up some cash to help cover the game’s server costs. 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter We warned you last week that the window was closing on OpenTTD, the open source remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe that was, until quite recently—we warned you, bro—available for free on Steam and GOG. The reason, the OpenTTD team explained, was the imminent return of the real Transport Tycoon Deluxe, the 1995 business sim developed by Chris Sawyer, which Atari was bringing back as a commercial product.Sure enough, all happened as it was foretold: Transport Tycoon Deluxe launched, OpenTTD was pulled, and everyone took it about as well as you’d expect, which is to say not well at all. Transport Tycoon Deluxe is currently weighed down with a “mostly negative” user rating on Steam, and reviews helpfully suggesting, for instance, that Atari—and I quote—”can, and should, eat my entire ass.”That negativity isn’t likely to have too much of an impact on Atari’s future financial planning—there are only 26 user reviews on Steam and the peak concurrent player count is just 23, so it