Place your headquarters
Anywhere in the Nordics. Your town, or a port you like the look of. Where you start decides what work you are near, and that matters more than it sounds.
Put your headquarters anywhere in Norway, Sweden, Finland or Denmark, even your own street. Haul real freight between real businesses, down roads that actually exist, and get paid when it arrives. Then do it better than the person hauling the same lane as you. It is a logistics game with real numbers behind every rate and every deadline.
The demo needs no account: you get a small fleet, extra cash and two hours to look around. Then it is wiped.
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Game visuals shown are from work-in-progress Alpha builds and may differ from the live game.
Anywhere in the Nordics. Your town, or a port you like the look of. Where you start decides what work you are near, and that matters more than it sounds.
Work is posted on one shared board, and the first to accept gets it. Every contract has a deadline, and a tight one pays more. A long run with one pallet loses money. The same run as an urgent delivery does not. Working out which is which is the game.
Your vehicle follows real roads at real speed limits, and a lorry is held to lorry limits and kept off roads it may not use. An Oslo to Bergen run takes about seven hours, because that is how long it takes.
Dispatch before bed and it has arrived by morning, paid for and parked. Nothing pauses because you closed the tab.
You run your own company, alone. But there is one market, and it is shared. If enough hauliers pile onto the same lane, the rate on that lane falls, for everyone. Leave it alone and it recovers.
A vehicle burns nearly the same diesel empty as loaded, so the cost per pallet collapses the fuller it is. Half-empty is how you go broke slowly.
Some goods are made from others: grain becomes flour, logs become timber. Feed a place that is already full and it pays less. Empty one that is overflowing and it pays more.
Rates fall per kilometre as the journey grows while fuel does not, so far-away work has to be worth the going. Some of it simply is not.
No breakdowns, no bad luck, no dice. Every number in the game can be explained, and every loss is a decision you made.
Dispatch Tycoon is a transport-management tycoon game in alpha and still changing, but a lot of it already works. A few of the things that make it different.
That is genuinely all it takes.
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