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title: OpenTTD on Steam
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As of today, you can Wishlist OpenTTD on [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536610/OpenTTD/).

Historically, OpenTTD always had a single home from where we distributed the game.
We used to be hosted on SourceForge (you know you are old, if you remember that being a thing :D), and slowly moved towards our own self-created distribution methods.
These days, we mostly distribute our game via [our website](https://www.openttd.org).

But times are changing, and so is our hair.
Over the last few months, we have silently been working to become a bit more visible in the world.
Don't worry, not for reasons you might think: OpenTTD has as many active users as it had in 2007.
But more because we no longer think it is the right approach to only distribute via our own website.

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This became painfully apparent when we noticed other people post OpenTTD on some stores.
They are not always updated with new releases, sometimes even slacking behind a few years.
And maybe more important to us: we can not guarantee that the uploaded version is unmodified and is the version as we intended.
So, instead of fighting it, why not turn around and join them!
Why not release our own, verified, builds on those stores!

And this is exactly what we have been working on lately.
And when I say "we", a bit ironic to me, I mean the two developers that are around longest (myself and orudge) ;)

A while back orudge added OpenTTD to the [Microsoft Store](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/openttd-official/9ncjg5rvrr1c).
And today, I am happy to announce we will be on [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536610/OpenTTD/) too!

Well, we are on Steam, but we haven't released anything there yet (sorry that I got your hopes up, just to squash them right after :( ).
This is partially because of how Steam works, but also because we know we can bring a better experience for Steam with our upcoming release.
That brings me to the most exciting news: if everything goes as planned, we will release OpenTTD 1.11 on Steam on the first of April, 2021!
And that is not even an [April fools'](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day) joke!

You can already Wishlist OpenTTD today .. and till we release on Steam, you can find our game via [our website](https://www.openttd.org) ;)

Enjoy!

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