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Pick a city. Build it from scratch.
Berlin, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York and Toronto are ready to play, free during beta.
Every city starts empty, but each one gives you a different problem to solve.
1.0 Cities
Warsaw is split by the Vistula. People and jobs sit on both sides, so sooner or later
your network has to cross it. Start cheap, find the routes that work, then decide where
the big crossing is worth the money.
IstanbulSoonAcross the Bosphorus
Istanbul is huge, and the Bosphorus splits it in two. You start with enough money to
think big, but every crossing is expensive. Build the right links between the two sides
without spending the whole budget on one idea.
Los AngelesSoonLong distances · Fast roads
In Los Angeles, the car is winning before you build anything. Distances are long and
the freeways are fast. Find the corridors where transit can actually compete, because an
expensive line is useless if nobody chooses it.
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Upvote a city's comment or suggest a missing city in our Reddit post.
North of the IJ. Every line to them has to cross the water.
Indische Buurt-West
25,445 people per km²
The densest neighbourhood in the city.
Sloterdijk
35,512 jobs · 1,330 people
Offices round Sloterdijk station, 4 km west of Dam Square.
Zuidas
53,685 jobs · 5,255 people
The business district, 4 km south of Dam Square.
Amstel III
60,881 jobs · 3,870 people
The biggest job area, 9 km from Dam Square.
← Haarlem 167,040 people
→ Almere 226,195 peopleacross the water
Noord108,770 people North of the IJ. Every line to them has to cross the water.
Indische Buurt-West25,445 people per km² The densest neighbourhood in the city.
Sloterdijk35,512 jobs · 1,330 people Offices round Sloterdijk station, 4 km west of Dam Square.
Zuidas53,685 jobs · 5,255 people The business district, 4 km south of Dam Square.
Amstel III60,881 jobs · 3,870 people The biggest job area, 9 km from Dam Square.
Haarlem167,040 people West, past the edge of this picture.
Almere226,195 people 22 km east, across the water.
907,695people in Amsterdam
750,766jobs in Amsterdam
1,751,185people in 87 towns around it
2,155 km²of map to build on
106neighbourhoods in Amsterdam
150,078
jobs in Amstel III, Zuidas and Sloterdijk.
Three job areas at the edge of the city, none of them in the old centre.
108,770
people live north of the IJ.
Every line to Noord has to cross the water.
1,751,185
people in the 87 towns around Amsterdam.
Almost twice the city's own 907,695. Haarlem, Zaandam, Almere and Amstelveen are all on the map.
25,445
people per km² in Indische Buurt-West.
The densest homes are in the old blocks east of the centre, not in the canal ring with 11,748 per km².
Sources: People CBS Vierkantstatistieken 2024, Statistics Netherlands, CC BY 4.0 · Jobs Basisbestand Gebieden Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Onderzoek en Statistiek · Aerial photos PDOK Luchtfoto Actueel HR, CC BY 4.0
Dense towers, far new towns, a harbour in the middle.
More people than any other neighbourhood in the city.
← Newark 270,970 people
Upper East Side-Yorkville58,841 people per km² The densest neighbourhood on the map.
Midtown-Times Square302,280 jobs · 18,799 people The most jobs of any neighbourhood, on 2.27 km².
Jersey City258,515 people Across the Hudson, in New Jersey.
Financial District143,299 jobs The second job centre, at the tip of the island.
Elmhurst102,407 people More people than any other neighbourhood in the city.
Newark270,970 people West, past the edge of this picture.
8,338,187people in New York City
4,069,150jobs in New York City
3,948,196people in 211 towns around it
2,597 km²of map to build on
257neighbourhoods in the city
1,152,437
jobs in six Midtown neighbourhoods.
On 10.75 km², more than a quarter of the city's 4,069,150 jobs.
Manhattan is an island.
Every line from New Jersey, Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx has to cross a river.
3,948,196
people in the 211 towns around the city.
Newark, Jersey City, Yonkers and the Long Island towns are all on the map.
78.5%
of Manhattan's homes have no car.
In the busiest part of the map, the car is not in the race.
Sources: People WorldPop 2020, University of Southampton, CC BY 4.0 · Jobs OpenStreetMap, scaled to BLS and Census counts, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages 2024, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023 · Neighbourhoods 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas, NYC Department of City Planning · Cars American Community Survey 2024, U.S. Census Bureau, table B08201 · Aerial photos NYC DoITT Orthoimagery 2018, CC BY 4.0
The densest neighbourhood, 14 km north of Union Station.
West Humber-Clairville
36,157 people
More people than any other neighbourhood in the city.
Brampton
640,313 people
A city of its own, 28 km from Union Station.
Yonge-Bay Corridor
73,930 jobs · 10,301 people
The most jobs of any neighbourhood.
Mississauga
871,283 people
The biggest city around Toronto, 21 km from Union Station.
↗ Markham 390,407 people
Yonge-Doris40,042 people per km² The densest neighbourhood, 14 km north of Union Station.
West Humber-Clairville36,157 people More people than any other neighbourhood in the city.
Brampton640,313 people A city of its own, 28 km from Union Station.
Yonge-Bay Corridor73,930 jobs · 10,301 people The most jobs of any neighbourhood.
Mississauga871,283 people The biggest city around Toronto, 21 km from Union Station.
Markham390,407 people North-east, past the edge of this picture.
2,823,659people in Toronto
1,387,174jobs in Toronto
2,739,647people in the cities around it
28%of Toronto's homes have no car
2,559 km²of map to build on
403,199
jobs in nine downtown neighbourhoods.
On 9.57 km², 29% of the city's jobs.
Lake Ontario closes the south.
Every line into downtown comes from the north, the east or the west.
2,739,647
people in the cities around Toronto.
Almost as many as in Toronto itself. In Peel and York, more than 90 in 100 homes have a car.
40,042
people per km² in Yonge-Doris.
The densest neighbourhood is in North York, 14 km north of Union Station.
Sources: People WorldPop 2020, University of Southampton, CC BY 4.0 · Jobs Toronto Employment Survey 2025, City of Toronto City Planning, and the cities around it by their own counts · Neighbourhoods 158 social development neighbourhoods, City of Toronto · Cars Transportation Tomorrow Survey 2022, University of Toronto Data Management Group · Aerial photos City of Toronto Orthophoto, Open Government Licence – Toronto
Real city. Real demand. Real money. The city already has people
going to work, school, shops and everywhere else. Most of them can already drive. Your
network has to give them a better option.
FIG 0.1
Put stations where people are
A stop only helps the people who can walk to it.
FIG 0.2
See the price before you build
Street, bridge or tunnel, every kilometre has a real cost.
FIG 0.3
Choose how often it runs
More trains win more riders, but they cost more to run.
FIG 0.4
Finish the year
Takt plays out a whole working day: who rides, who changes, who stays in the car.
FIG 0.5
See how it went
Every line’s riders, crowding and money, in one report.
FIG 0.6
The city pays you back
Connect the places that ask for it, and their grants pay for your next line.
The answers are on the map
Find busy stops, slow sections and weak connections. Choose a layer in the
Stations, Lines or City group to plan your next change.
2.0 The map
We compare modelled ridership with published figures for real networks.
This Berlin comparison records the result for the model and city data from 26 August 2026.
3.0 The check
Real network
Takt predicts
Published ridership
Ratio
U-Bahn + S-Bahn, rail-only run
2,920,623
~2,900,000
101%
All Berlin, 345 lines
4,588,528
~4,300,000
107%
These are daily boardings. A journey with a transfer can board
more than one line. The full network includes buses and trains competing for the same
trips. The rail-only run includes U-Bahn and S-Bahn services without buses.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about the game as it works today.
What is Takt?
Takt is a transit planning game played on real cities. Start with nothing, build bus,
tram, metro and regional rail lines, and decide how often they run. Then see who uses
your network, who keeps driving, and whether you can afford it.
How do I play?
Pick a city, press + to start a line, and plan directly on the map. Add
the work to the current year, then finish the year when you are ready. Takt builds the
plan and calculates its exact result. The guide explains buses,
trams, metro, rail and the rest with pictures.
Can I build without a budget limit?
Yes. Turn on Sandbox mode in the
Dashboard, under Capital & funding. You can keep building when the construction budget
runs out. Costs still count, and construction times and the passenger simulation still
apply. You can switch it on or off in an existing game.
How do I save my game?
Open Saved games, enter a name and choose Save new. Each saved game has separate
Save and Load buttons. Loading asks for confirmation and keeps your current game under
Recovery copies. Saving over a game also keeps its previous version there. Download a
.takt file to keep a copy outside the browser.
Is Takt free?
Yes. Berlin, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York and Toronto are free to play during beta.
Berlin and Amsterdam will stay free. Later cities will be available individually or in packs. All cities
play by the same rules. You only pay for more places to play.
Is it really a simulation of my city?
It uses the real city as its starting point. Streets, homes, jobs and places come from
map and census data. Takt compares your service with driving, walking and cycling.
Trips and travel choices are estimates. The Berlin comparison above shows a check
against published ridership.
When can I play it?
Right now. Berlin, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York and Toronto are open in your browser, free during beta and without an account.
Takt is still in beta, so expect a few rough edges while I keep building it.
Which cities will there be?
As many as I can make. Berlin, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York and Toronto are open now.
Warsaw, Istanbul and Los Angeles come next, and more cities after them. Which city do you want?
Vote for it or suggest it on Reddit ↗.
The votes help me choose the next city.
Who is making this?
I’m David Karpik, an independent developer in Germany. I build Takt, the model behind
it and the cities you play on. I also built Clickport,
an analytics product, dark and dense like Takt, and countless other web projects since 2005.
Changes
What changed in the game, by date. A player gets each change on the
next page load.
9 Oct 2026v0.26
New city: Toronto. Build transit for Toronto and the five cities around it, on real aerial photos.
Simpler line building. Click a line, then hover over an end station to keep building, or click between two stations to add one.
Smooth curves, easy connections. Your line bends round each waypoint in one smooth curve. Near another line’s station, your cursor is pulled onto it.
New Served well metric. It replaces Satisfied and shows how well your network serves people: the trips it carries, how fast they are compared to the car, waiting, changes and crowding.
Real tracks and stations. The new Tracks & stations layer shows the city’s real railways, metros and trams.
More money for new games. Every city now starts with enough for about 42 km of metro tunnel.
A new dashboard. See all your lines in one table, with each change since last year.
Smoother building. Improved station and cursor handling.
Better city maps. Fixes for Hong Kong Light Rail, Berlin buses and Amsterdam road works.
28 Sept 2026v0.24
See who your stations reach. The new Station reach layer highlights streets within your operating and planned stops’ walking radius. While placing a stop, see the extra residents and jobs it reaches. Reach uses straight-line distance.
Smoother trains and buses. Vehicles move more smoothly on busy networks. Demand streets and traffic use less memory while keeping the same map detail.
Give your stations local names. Choose names from nearby places, or rename a whole line’s stations with a preview. Your custom names stay unless you choose to replace them.
Undo and redo beyond building. Press U to undo and R to redo, even after leaving building mode. Undo now keeps your last ten steps to reduce memory use.
More flexible shared tracks. Branch between stations without adding a stop. New stations on shared track serve the lines using it, and connected track plans join the year plan together.
More ways to connect towns. Journeys with up to two transfers now count towards town connection targets and grants, provided they meet the journey-time target.
25 Sept 2026v0.23
New York is here. Connect Manhattan, the boroughs, and the surrounding towns. Plan your river crossings and build a network that brings the region together.
Smoother maps. Zooming is faster across all cities, with the biggest improvement in New York.
Make your network your own. Name your transport company, choose from 30 logos, and pick an accent colour. Your company name and logo also appear on shared network images.
See your busiest routes. The new Passenger flow layer shows daily passenger numbers along each section, with wider lines for busier routes. Shared sections combine passengers from all services. New line statistics show total passenger distance and average daily traffic along the line.
Reshape your network with the bulldozer. Remove stations, stops, and route sections across all transport modes, or open a ring line by removing one section. Hover to preview each removal. Cancelling unbuilt sections is free; built removals take effect when you finish the year.
Run metros every two minutes. Give busy lines more frequent service wherever track and station capacity allow.
Extend shared platforms once. Services using the same platform now share its length and extension costs. Pay for one extension, and every service calling there benefits when it opens.
Better protection for your saves. Failed saves can retry, and older tabs are prevented from overwriting newer progress. Clearer warnings explain when saving is blocked and what you can do next.
More consistent construction costs. Paid track costs stay recorded when services are parked or removed, and loading fixes prevent inflated construction bills. The budget display explains how much money remains available and how much is reserved.
Smoother route editing. Bus and street tram gaps reconnect along roads, while off-street tram stations and waypoints stay where you placed them. Press U to undo and R to redo while building.
Reconnect after demolition. Demolished stations no longer force you to rebuild through their old positions when the track on both sides is gone.
Smaller fixes throughout. Shared games retain Sandbox mode, live traffic returns correctly after map-style changes, and station figures and line tooltips receive corrections. Hong Kong’s airport area also has a clearer name to distinguish it from Tung Chung Town Centre.
21 Sept 2026v0.22
Build beyond your construction budget with Sandbox mode.
Switch it on or off inside an existing game. Costs, construction times and the simulation still apply.
Save a timetable with a name and reuse it on other lines,
across games and cities in the same browser. Each line keeps its own copy.
Shared and parallel track follow the stations you choose. Skip intermediate stops or click away
to continue on your own track. Curved approaches, level changes and rebuilding gaps beside shared
track work more consistently.
Game-file downloads and shared networks are compressed, and shares support larger networks.
A saved game that fails to open is protected from being overwritten by autosaving.
The city menu puts the three playable cities first, followed by the suggest-and-vote link.
The info button beside your active city opens its information.
19 Sept 2026v0.21
Building metro and rail track got much easier and more intuitive. Draw your line to a station
of another line and keep clicking its next stations: your line runs on the same track, at no cost.
Want your own track? Click anywhere else. Lines can meet at any angle, and a second track beside
another line takes one click for each station. When you delete a line, choose to keep its track
or to remove it; track that another line uses always stays.
Stations look like real stations. Platforms follow the curve of the track. A big station with
several tracks gets one hall with a glass roof, and trains drive in and out under it.
Saving big networks no longer makes problems, and Network view is much faster on big networks.
17 Sept 2026v0.20
Read your network as a transit map in Network view.
Separate service colours, clear station markers and line badges make shared routes and interchanges easier to follow.
Click a line badge on the map to open its line card. Click it again to show only that service.
Share larger networks with saved games up to 20 MB, increased from 5 MB.
Build parallel replacements with separate platforms at both ends, including beside shared track.
Remove obsolete isolated stations after their adjacent track is gone.
Build along corrected Hong Kong Light Rail corridors in Tin Shui Wai and Tuen Mun with the tram tool.
15 Sept 2026v0.19
Build parallel metro and railway tracks to add capacity beside a busy route.
Remove and rebuild individual track sections while keeping the stations and timetables.
Edit timetables more smoothly in large networks. Advice explains crowded services
and helps you choose more departures, longer platforms, parallel tracks or another route.
Severe overcrowding reduces satisfaction more strongly when you finish a new year.
The Year report identifies affected lines, hours and busy sections; earlier scores stay unchanged.
Read running speeds, station boardings, transfers, frequency and shared-track capacity
on the map. Grouped layer controls make these views easier to find.
Amsterdam gains missing tram connections and bus roads. Hong Kong airport trips
now connect to nearby terminal stops and Airport Station.
11 Sept 2026v0.18
Hong Kong is open. Build bus, tram, metro and rail lines across Hong Kong Island,
Kowloon and the New Territories.
Review construction and timetable changes before finishing the year.
Confirm the plan or return to the map to keep planning.
Reopen saved Year reports to review passenger numbers, crowding and funding.
Test timetable suggestions before adding them to your plan.
See each district's daily journeys and share of trips carried, with changes from
the previous year. Search all districts and towns.
Join shared metro and rail tracks with curved connections and a preview of
construction costs. Closing a ring keeps the track you already built.
7 Sept 2026v0.17
Click the capital amount to open the new Dashboard. Overview compares completed
years with headline trends, network growth, income and operating-cost charts.
Search and sort lines by riders, crowding, income, cost and result. Open a line
for its busiest stations, section loads and available yearly history.
Finances keeps the selected year's accounts together. Projects shows the current
construction plan beside the work recorded in an earlier year.
Capital & funding shows five Jobs, five Homes and five Towns matching the map,
with pictures and progress. Click any part of a card to show its place.
See further targets, search all funding conditions and read payment history.
Eligible districts can earn grants at year end without a previous offer.
Permanent funding continues at 6%, 8%, 12%, 16% and 20% ridership.
Regional awards reward 5, 10 and 15 connected towns after the 4% ridership award.
Berlin's playable streets and demand now extend across its mapped surrounding
towns, including Potsdam. Official district and town boundaries support grant details.
Duivendrecht and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel have separate boundaries and grants,
as do Muiden and Muiderberg. Existing games keep their network and recorded years.
Line loads shows the busiest load on each section. Click a section to open its
line's Full station view, with the highest loads first.
Choose the existing railway to reuse at an interchange and see its exact route.
Leaving shared rails requires an explicit choice to build new track.
Add a station to built metro or rail without moving its existing alignment
or charging for that track again. Undo keeps changes in planning.
Saved games restore district walk coverage, shared networks load more reliably,
and large-network line cards open faster. Operating results stay separate from construction money.
5 Sept 2026v0.16
The compact menu bar gives each network figure its own icon and details.
Capital and the yearly plan sit together, with clearer fonts and quieter panels.
Save and load games with separate buttons. Recovery copies keep your previous
game when you load another game or save over an existing one.
Station removals appear on the map while you plan. Remove a terminus, then
extend the new end before finishing the year.
Hide individual lines or whole transport types on the map. Hidden services
keep running and stay in the line list.
Amsterdam has official district boundaries, updated home and job locations,
and access to existing tram corridors. Demand streets show workplace demand more
clearly in Berlin and Amsterdam.
Existing v0.15 Amsterdam games keep their network and progress. Saved year
figures remain visible until Finish year calculates results on the updated map.
4 Sept 2026v0.15
Plan lines, stations and track changes without waiting for the whole city to
recalculate. Finish the year to build the plan and calculate its exact result.
Capital now keeps yearly results for riders, changes, walk reach, satisfaction,
money, districts and towns.
Saves from before v0.15 stay unchanged and cannot open in yearly planning.
Start a new city to use v0.15.
New v0.15 share links keep the current year, capital, projects and yearly history
when you open them on another device.
3 Sept 2026v0.14
Large cities load faster and use less memory.
Large networks stay responsive while you build, open line cards and move around
the map.
3 Sept 2026v0.13
Waypoints now shape only the new section. Track already planned or built stays
where you placed it, and waypoint mode no longer pulls towards other lines.
The demolition preview now marks the buildings under the planned curve. Its
building count and price use that same curve.
Built connections can earn city grants while another line remains as a blueprint.
Free fares no longer unlock permanent capital votes.
2 Sept 2026v0.12
Large networks recalculate much faster after a line or station changes. Smaller
networks keep the direct calculation that is faster for their size.
A saved game can now leave the browser. Download a portable .takt file from Saves,
then open that file on this computer or another computer.
31 Aug 2026
Lines carry a code on a badge, the way the city signs its own: in Berlin U1 on a
square, S1 on a pill, M1 and bus 100 on a rectangle. Click the badge to set the code,
its shape and its colour, or reset it to the city's sign.
The line list can be sorted. The button above it lists the lines by number, by
riders or by type, with the metro lines first. Each line keeps its number.
Stations can be renamed. Click the pen beside a station in the line's station list
and type a name, or take the name of a well-known place nearby, such as a square, a
stadium or a hospital.
A line opens on its own: while its card is open the other lines step aside, and
"All lines" above it brings the list back in its order. The open line's name stays
at the top while you scroll through its card.
Saves live in the browser's own database now. A big city no longer fills the
storage and stops saving.
30 Aug 2026
The city only asks for districts and towns that a bus stop can reach.
29 Aug 2026
Metro and railway lines can now run on another line's track and branch off it. Choose
R in the line card, click two stations of the other line, and the section between them
costs nothing to build.
Commuter towns now measure their trip to a visible Centre point. Click the marker to
see how many towns are connected, or open a town to see the route and travel time it is
judged on.
28 Aug 2026
Amsterdam is open. Click the city's name in the bar to switch.
A city greets you while it loads: its coat of arms, what it is and what the game
asks, over the loading bar. The first time it waits for Start; "About" in the city
list brings it back.
The city's requests changed. Districts stay inside the city, the nearest towns come
first, three at a time, and a town counts as connected with one change onto another
of your lines, within 1.6 times the drive.
The key stations stay on the map when the stations layer is off.
The bar, the layer list and the panels click when you press them. The Sounds
switch turns it off with the rest.
27 Aug 2026
A district disappears from the map once the city has paid you for it. Its card shows
one number: the share of its people who can walk to a stop.
A selected station says what the next click does: click it again to build from here,
or click an end station. The line list's hint says the same, and every guide page for a
mode explains how to continue a line from a station it already has.
A town's card says why it does not count as connected yet, and what would connect it:
the trip has to be on one line, under 1.6 times the drive, and a tram with forty stops
cannot do it where an express, a metro or a railway can.
A guide to the game: the question mark in the top bar opens eight short pages with
pictures. How to lay a bus, a tram, a metro and a railway, set the takt, change a line
and read the numbers.
26 Aug 2026
Tell the developer what you think: the bug in the top bar opens a feedback box.
Wishes, improvements, bugs, everything is welcome.
The card you share draws your network like a printed transit map: straight runs, soft
bends, clear station marks, upright names. The share dialog also downloads a big version
for posting.
Take a middle stop out of a bus line and the bus finds its way between the neighbours
again. Reserved track, rails and tunnels keep their alignment.
An interchange with platforms apart shows the sign at each platform and the walk
between them.
A bus or tram that joins a metro or rail station stops on the nearest street, and the
card says how far the walk is. A station the line already calls at cannot be joined
twice.
25 Aug 2026
The cities that are not open yet take votes: pick one in the city menu, see the four
maps, vote for the ones you would play.
Share this city draws a card of your network with its figures, gives you a short link,
and downloads the card as PNG or SVG. A chat shows the card for the link, and on a
computer the link opens the network in the game.
The people and jobs a station reaches are counted to its mode's walk: 500 m for a bus,
600 for a tram, 800 for a metro, 1,500 for a train. It was 800 m for every mode.
A place card beyond walking reach says so, instead of naming a stop kilometres away.
A stop along a street is named by its nearest crossing, Turmstr./Beusselstr., the way
real stops are. Stops you named yourself keep their names.
Every colour means one thing: red is a verdict, amber a warning, blue the plan, green
what a click would earn. Everything else is grey, and a selected control is brighter.
The layer bar is open on a first visit. The Takt mark in the top bar opens this page in
a new tab.
A line with one station shows it in its card, and the top bar counts it.
Take a station out with the × in its row. On a built line, Build removes it; a lone
station goes at once.
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