About
FreeRails is a real-time, multiplayer railway strategy and management game based on Railroad Tycoon I and II, written in Java under the GPL-3.0 license. The project describes itself as in an intermediate, unfinished state with a long development history, and the latest release (0.4.1) dates from January 2018.
How it differs from the original
The project's stated goal is to modernize the classic formula with a 2D JavaFX graphical interface and real-time multiplayer support, rather than replicate the original games' presentation as-is.
Getting started
The project builds with Gradle and can be imported into Eclipse, NetBeans, or IntelliJ IDEA, or run from the command line via Gradle's application/run task; a player-facing manual is linked from the project's documentation site.
Known limitations
- gameplay: Project is in intermediate state with long development history; not yet finished with original intended features.