When comparing TransOcean: The Shipping Company vs Mini Metro, the Slant community recommends Mini Metro for most people. In the question“What are the best transport management PC games?” Mini Metro is ranked 5th while TransOcean: The Shipping Company is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Mini Metro is:
Minimalist design and relaxing music makes this a very different experience from the bustle of some others. A minimal zen like game that allows one to relax while playing. While gameplay may get hectic there are modes of play that do not allow for loosing meaning that you can relax and just play without worry.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Very Addictive
Pro "Empire-building" feeling
Start with one ship and upgrade to manage a whole fleet. By slowly growing ones business the game simulates building a shipping empire.
Pro Numerous ports, each with their own feel
Each port in the game looks and feels different, just as they would in the real world, which gives a sense of originality as well as a feeling of progress in the game due to new environments.
Pro Soothing gameplay
Minimalist design and relaxing music makes this a very different experience from the bustle of some others. A minimal zen like game that allows one to relax while playing. While gameplay may get hectic there are modes of play that do not allow for loosing meaning that you can relax and just play without worry.
Pro Very minimal puzzle sim aspects
Very basic and abstract in design and gameplay the user uses limited resources in order to create the most effective routes for a transportation system.
Cons
Con Micromanagement
As your fleet grows, having to select each destination and cargo for each journey of each boat could become tiresome. Compared to the set-it-and-forget it approach of route planning in other games. This may be time consuming for some players who would rather focus on the main aspects of the game.
Con Limited route planning
Shipping on an international scale differs from a lot of the single-city transport management games where specific routes must be constructed. Rather, you pick start and end points for individual journeys focusing on things like fuel and delivery time and then each ship follows the only possible path.
Con Casual gameplay
There is less depth than in many of the games listed which may not be quite what is required here
Con Takes a while to get the hang of
Learning the game may take some time, though the mechanics are not too difficult to grasp, the gameplay itself can be frustrating.