I love this game and I also spent quite some time playing original TTD as kid.
However I do wonder if there are any good modern contenders to it. My kids play games on an Android tablet. Even though OpenTTD runs there it doesn't feel native to the touch UI and overall looses the appeal to modern games (which are regrettably 99% crap but there are real gems too).
Long story short, anyone can recommend a high-quality pleasant-to-play economic strategy game for Android? There are tons of games roughly speaking "cats-n-soup alike" which look nice but lack the essence: it's just "use money to upgrade your economy and get more money", a one-dimensional loop without a need for strategy.
Factorio with elevated rails doesn't really match the "pleasant-to-play economic strategy game" thing but has been scratching my making-train-networks itch. I think OpenTTD is still overall the top of this field though.
However I do wonder if there are any good modern contenders to it. My kids play games on an Android tablet. Even though OpenTTD runs there it doesn't feel native to the touch UI and overall looses the appeal to modern games (which are regrettably 99% crap but there are real gems too).
Long story short, anyone can recommend a high-quality pleasant-to-play economic strategy game for Android? There are tons of games roughly speaking "cats-n-soup alike" which look nice but lack the essence: it's just "use money to upgrade your economy and get more money", a one-dimensional loop without a need for strategy.