Goods delivery games? (Empire Builder, Merchants of Venus)

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MuSquared
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Goods delivery games? (Empire Builder, Merchants of Venus)

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I've been getting an itch to play a style of game I used to play all the time, where a major part of the gameplay was moving a train or ship or spaceship around a map picking up goods at one location and delivering them somewhere else where they were in demand.

Empire Builder and the rest of the "Crayon Rails" games (Eurorails was probably my favorite) were the main examples, but Merchants of Venus had some similar mechanisms. I can't think of or find any games on BGA that have gameplay along those lines.

There are lots of train games, but most at least seem to focus on track building or other aspects over deliveries. I guess Railways of the World sort of has this with delivering the colored cubes to the matching colored cities, but it doesn't quite seem the same, with no train or ship you have to move. Starship Merchants has been in beta for quite a while, but I don't think it really has what I'm looking for either.

Am I missing anything?
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Re: Goods delivery games? (Empire Builder, Merchants of Venus)

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"Pick up and deliver" I think it's usually called, but BGA doesn't seem to list it as a mechanism you can filter by. Caravan is one I've played that probably qualifies. Lords of Xidit maybe too, though I think of it more as a programming game. Forbidden Island, but that's more known for being Co-op. Apparently Darwin's Journey is too, but I've not played it.
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Re: Goods delivery games? (Empire Builder, Merchants of Venus)

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Flip Freighters is a roll and write that's has good delivery, though not in the same way you mention
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Re: Goods delivery games? (Empire Builder, Merchants of Venus)

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As alphabetical list: "Pick up and deliver" (moving and collecting) games on BGA, including those you already mentioned:
Bahama Taxi
Bombay
Butterfly
Caravan
Cathood
Chocolate Factory
Coffe Rush / Cafe Barista
Darwin's Journey
Expeditions
Finca
Forbidden Island / Die verbotene Insel (cooperative)
Hey That's My Fish / Packeis am Pol
Isle of Trains
Railways of the World (reimplementation of Age of Steam)
Khiva
Lords of Xidit / Himalaya
Luxor
Mountain Goats
Movers & Shakers
Niagara
Now Boarding
Off the Rails
Pandemic (cooperative)
Postcards
Sahwari
Sobek Two Players
Steam Rollers
The Guild of Merchant Explorers
The Ruhr / Ruhrschifffahrt 1769-1890
Tokaido
Trekking the World
Twin Tin Bots

EDIT: I added Butterfly and Hey That's My Fish. You may find even more as alpha games.
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Re: Goods delivery games? (Empire Builder, Merchants of Venus)

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Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! A few games I hadn't considered in this context, and a lot I wasn't familiar with at all.

After looking at a bunch of these, I'm thinking Bahama Taxi is closest to what I was thinking of. Flip Freighters and Coffee Rush look really good too, if not quite what I had in mind.

But I'd love it if they'd get at least one Crayon Rails game on BGA.
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