Locoland

It's good to see this old game on Steam, after few hours of game play i can say it's unique game. Game has a lot of mechanics that create new strategies totally fresh and new, most of them revolves around train movement. First half of campaign is challenging and gradual teaches strategies, missions are short but requires good timing, precision so to beat level often i had have few attempts, searching for optimal; strategy it was really fun. Graphics is something that cannot be reproduced today, lot of work has been put to make maps look interesting. Unfortunately later in the campaigning new weapons destroy balance and game becomes somewhat repetitive. Games also has bug from time to time, trains get clogged, and enemy AI gets stuck and is have issues to defend against really unusual tactics

This game is just about two empires and also about train combat. That's the main reason why is it soo good. Best game ever.

This is ma childhood. I still have the Estonian translated version of the game on CD, but im still happy to see it on Steam.

👍

This game could be better. Even though I got it cheap on sale it could use some real good improvements like map editor, better graphics, more cars ETC.

Rating 3/10

Kudos to the developers, artists, musicians and everyone else who contributed to this game! Love the artstyle, gameplay and especially music.

Playing this game brings a lot of nostalgia. I played many hours with my dad, brother and cousin in my childhood. To this day they still enjoy this game. For that I can't thank devs enough.

I like it!

if i should describe this game, it's really unique and amazing.
It's have really interesting game mechanic's. i played often before on steam, up this day i still have original CD with this game. what i wish to see, it would be is remake of this game, or have another game.
i really enjoy playing it. even i play now less at that game. It will be always in my heart.
Graphic it's simple, and at that time i really was enjoing it, even now i enjoy that graphic. Music it's alos simple but interesting, it's siut well whole gameplay. i think that game deserve more attention. even tough it's 2024... I don't forget satisfaction from this game and fun what i had and have.

This game has a virus

Filename: CDPRO.BIN
Threat name: Trojan HorseFull Path: D:\games\steamapps\common\Locoland\CDPRO.BIN

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I remember this game from my childhood and I completed it few times on hard mode but it still brings joy.
PROS:
- very original idea
- good graphics and very low requirements
- diverse landscapes and weapons
CONS:
- the AI is a bit retarded and repetitive
- there are few bugs
- the objective is almost always the same - destroy everything and capture everything

An underrated masterpiece! This game brought me back to childhood.
Locoland (Steamland) it's a intriguing and original RTS game amazingly based on the rails logic. Since I played it for the first time I found it unique and after 2 decades I am still surprised by this game and how genial is the idea, that actually would deserve more. I am still hoping for a future of the genre and more levels/units/mods

Not bad for when it came out, but not good enough to be worth recommending nowadays.

"create or select player", enter player name and no matter what I do it resets to "New Player" - and without creating a player I can't start the game, so basically this isn't working.

This game has unique concept that has not been replicated in any form yet, unfortunetelly, the uniqueness brings a lot of trouble alongside it as well. There are trains strictly better than others, sometimes they are overpowered as well. aquiring money is finicky, and the fact you got only one factory that makes every train makes the game unsuitable for multiplayer, if it would have been programmed into the game of course. one kamikaze could theoretically camp your factory the entire game...

As for the single player (THE ONLY MODE IN THE GAME!), The game gets much more enjoyable after aquiring flamethrower aproximetelly at mission 10. Before then homever, the difficulty can get insane. seriously, FUN black gold and citadel. the variety of the levels is pretty good, the sceneries change as well and aged pretty well for retro game like this. and if you get stuck on citadel, just turn the difficulty down and hope you can muscle through (pro tip: if you get all 5 money cubes in the level reinforcments will come)

Also there is a problem with the fact this game got a virus in CDPRO.bin, there are ways to overcome this though!
1. delete CDPRO.bin
2. search for steamland (the orifinal name of this game) on the interenet and download the demo
3. replace the steam.exe file in your steamapps folder with the demo steam.exe (steam.exe is the launcher for the game, not to be confused with steam as a service)
4. the game should be good to go and play virus!

IF YOU REALLY GET STUCK IN THE GAME
there are codes online that unlock all levels, so you can skip the already mentioned citadel, black gold and even some other like wep or swamp monster, which are brutal as well. I have used this numerous times at my young age.

I have replayed this game as a child many times, and the nostalgia hit hard for me. partially because of this, Im giving this game thumbs up. Its debatable if this game is worth 5 Euro, but if you see this game on a 90% discount, I can garantue you its worth a try!

I first played Locoland back when it was called Steamland, on a loose CD in a stack from an estranged family member almost 15 years ago. I spent hours attempting to play it on my already aging Windows 98 computer set up in my bedroom, and boy did I suck at it. Fast forward to about two months ago and I find it on Steam and, despite never being any good at it, I bought it.

Playing it now, I realise that the game isn't necessarily any easier - I'm just more patient. It's still tricky, and isn't exactly monumental as far as strategy games go, but I still enjoy playing it. As frustrating as it can be fighting against the enemy trains, mounting attacks on their factories and repair depots and fending off zeppelins, I think it makes the victories even sweeter because you really need to fight for it.

Locoland is not perfect. But despite its simple concept, it keeps you trying again and again until you prevail over the enemy with skill, patience, and to be honest, a decent amount of luck.

Best played in a good mood.

Excellent game from my childhood. Especially great when you like trains, real time strategy and good for it's time visuals that have not really aged much. Game offers 20 levels with different biomes that are pleasing to look at. There are many trains available and some levels offer unending supply of money to experiment with builds. There are many little tricks that have to be learned which provide some challenge. Even though I'm older now, it's still great to get back and experience this strategy anew. Fantasy world is really great to immerse yourself into. I can say it's a great not very complex game for kids and adults alike. This game got me into more complex strategy games so it has special place in my heart. For me it's 9/10, if there ever would be second version, multiplayer, level editor and endless mode and of course more types of train cars are what I would add.

Also worth to note, 2 fixes: If you can't select player at the start, you need to launch the game as administrator. If game lags, use lower resolution (not the largest available). I had these 2 issues and I fixed them that way. it's an old game so it's understandable that it has errors on new systems.

Hum... A mixed bag. This is a very original RTS game. You assemble trains with cars with different powers and you go fighting on rails for 20 missions. Old graphics but still nice. Decent music.

No bugs or crashes. Runs fine on Win 7.

Now, no tutorial, no tooltips, no descriptions, 'easy' would be 'normal' or 'hard' for today standards... the old concept of getting the player to find out everything by himself and get frustrated with repetition. The game, though, is not hard to understand. The problem is the difficulty spikes to crazy. The strategy part of the game goes down the drain in some missions cause there's only one way to win and, even when discovering that could be part of the fun, it gets boring to try for the perfect timing over and over again. This game was promising, a sequel might fix and improve many of its flaws... but that seems unlikely. So what we have here is kinda a hit and miss experiment and nostalgic retro-gaming. But no more. I think this is a very niche game and I find it hard to recommend it to the masses.

The game is unplayable because it will simply not install due to a (false?) positive on a virus check by Windows Defender.

Nostalgia hits hard, i never thought il play this game again, and to find it on steam is even bigger surprise. Big part of my childhood, good memories. It still holds up well, has that charm, the music, still very playable and fun except for some quirks that old games have like low framerate and non bindable keys (not much of a problem, all you need is LMB really). Definietly recommended to give it a try, for a dollar it wont hurt yer wallet and its worth much more than that.

failed to work properly on anything I tried it on. Windows 7, wine in WIN XP mode, wine in Win 95 mode. It crashes on video intro, if to remove videos it will run but will heavily flicker (2 seconds black screen, 2 seconds you can see game). Win 7 also has colored rectangular overlays on your map - like visual garbage.
maybe it's a nice game but it's useless for any device you can run steam on.
avoid!

For a dollar it's really nice game. I played it in my earlier days but I got stuck on a certain level. Overall the level design is brilliant, sometimes a bit frustrating but still, I got my 20 hours worth of fun with it, some of course being replays like I mention. Just beware that it's only single player campaign, meaning no multiplayer or co-op of any sort. AI is scripted and smart, most of the time, but the AI will run out of orders in the factory at a certain time, that's how I basically won the last mission, I kept stalling by sending kamitzes and breaking the rails.

Simply, do NOT buy this or if you buy it DO NOT install it.

It contains and install a virus on your PC, it's a known issue since two years now and neither Steam or the Dev ever did anything about it. For more information, you can check the discussions section.

For some reason, I keep coming back to play this game as I feel compelled to not let the game beat me.

Even though it is a real time strategy game, it is more like a real time puzzle game, where you need to work out how they AI functions on each level.

Each level is different and the key is working out what you need to make to succeed for this level. (well done to the designers who have put a lot of effort into creating the levels).

It can be a really frustrating game, requiring you to try different tactics. The best advice is sometimes to stop playing and come back to it when you think you have found away.

By the way beware the Kamikazie engine!!!!


Also there is NO in game save, I have lost count of the number of times I have restarted a level. (If the developers read this, can you update the game to include an in game save please )

There is some quirks with trains getting stuck when they run into another train.

I've played this game when it came out. It's original name on retail is SteamLand, made by buka in late 2003 or something.
Definitely an unknown old game, but it's still something good. A mix between RTS and movement restricted rails, its something you should try out. Really love the music too. Had a lot of fun playing it before!