Railroad Tycoon is described as 'Was written by game designer Sid Meier and published by MicroProse and though it shares the "Tycoon" suffix, it is not related to other Microprose games such as RollerCoaster Tycoon and Transport Tycoon, which were developed by Scottish programmer Chris' and is a transport simulator game in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to Railroad Tycoon for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Steam, Mac, Linux and Android apps. The best Railroad Tycoon alternative is OpenTTD, which is both free and Open Source. Other Railroad Tycoon like games are Simutrans, Transport Fever, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion and Sid Meier's Railroads!.