MULTI
MODAL
TRANSIT

Build the network before the city breaks.

London free on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Six more cities £3.99, once

Build the network before the city breaks.

Download Multi Modal Transit on the App Store Play the web demo
London free on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Six more cities £3.99, once

Roads start cities growing, but the junctions clog and roads stop being the answer. So you draw bus lines, then tram track, and eventually the underground.

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Four ways to move a city

  1. Day 1

    Roads

    Your starting network, one car at a time. Cheap and flexible, but the first thing to clog.

  2. Day 3

    Buses

    Eight passengers a bus, running on roads you have already laid. Capacity without rebuilding anything.

  3. Day 7

    Trams

    Twelve a tram, and each stop draws people from further away. Track costs a road tile for every square it covers, and it still shares the road.

  4. Day 12

    The Underground

    Twenty-five a train, stations that reach the furthest, and the only one here that ignores the traffic. Each square of tunnel costs three road tiles.

What a run looks like

Swipe for later in the run.

One road across a bridge to the first houses
Day 1 The start of your city: a few houses and one road to work.
A growing road grid with bus lines, queues at the offices and the Thames running through
Day 14 As your city grows, you need to add buses and trams.
A crowded city with long queues at every office
Day 19 Even with every line running, it is hard to keep up with growth.

How a run ends

Every destination has a queue. Let eight people pile up and a countdown starts. You have forty-five seconds to get someone there. Let it run out and the run is over.

Offices with queues of waiting passengers piled above them, two ringed in red by the countdown
Every red dot is somebody waiting. This is a morning rush going badly.

  1. Nothing is reaching this corner of the city fast enough, and the morning rush doubles the rate people arrive.

  2. A countdown ring closes around the building. You now have forty-five seconds and one decision.

  3. Lay road, re-route a line or add another bus or tram. The queue clears, and the next one starts somewhere you were not looking.

London is free. One £3.99 purchase unlocks the other six.

Each has its own map and its own mix of transport. Swipe through all seven.

London map with the Thames and its bridgesFree
TEMPERATE · THE THAMES

London

The Thames splits the map. Use bridges and the tube to get commuters from the suburbs in the south to work.

BusTramTube
Las Vegas map, a desert grid of casinos
DESERT · THE WASH

Las Vegas

With a vibrant strip of casinos, shows and a conference centre, keep the city flowing with buses, trams and the monorail.

BusTramMonorail
Venice map, islands and canals
ADRIATIC · THE CANALS

Venice

A lagoon of separate islands, laced by canals. No buses, no trams, no underground — bridges and the vaporetto are the whole network here.

Vaporetto
Rio map, a bay between beach and hills
TROPICAL · THE BAY

Rio

The bay eats one corner of the map. Traffic threads the headland between the beach and the hills, with no way around the water.

BusVLTMetrô
Stockholm map, an archipelago
NORDIC · THE ARCHIPELAGO

Stockholm

Connect the islands of Stockholm using bridges, the T‑bana and ferries.

BusT-banaFerry
Mexico City map with a lake east of centre
HIGHLAND · THE LAKE

Mexico City

Manage the rapid growth of Mexico City across the largely dry lake bed it sits on.

BusTramMetro
San Francisco map: the peninsula and the bay
PACIFIC · THE STRAIT

San Francisco

Treasure Island sits out in the bay with a single crossing. Cable cars and BART carry the city; the bridges carry everyone else.

BusCable carFerryBART
Venice, one of the six cities in the full game: islands, canals and the lagoon
LONDON FREE · SIX MORE CITIES £3.99

Two ways to play.Get the app.

Download the app, or try it instantly in your browser. Both are free to start, and both begin in London.

Download Multi Modal Transit on the App Store
The full game, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Free to download. The tutorial and the London campaign are free, and one £3.99 purchase unlocks the other six cities on all of them.
Play the demo on itch.io
The free demo, no download. London, on itch.io, rated 4.5/5 by 60 players. Desktop browsers only: Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge.

Built by South London Silicon

Multi Modal is an independent game about one of those things I have become unnecessarily interested in: how cities move.

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