Logistical 2 Mall Rats

LOGistICAL 2 Mall Rats is an open-world strategy and puzzle game about transporting cargo across the United States. You complete towns and businesses by delivering the resources they require, planning supply chains to obtain scarce cargo and unlock critical resources. The map covers every state capital and an additional 1,000 towns, with roads connecting capitals to towns and businesses. Its roads use the straight-line style of LOGistICAL 1.

Towns and businesses

Each town is its own puzzle: towns consume the cargo you deliver, and their requirements range from straightforward to complex. Businesses are malls, including some very large ones, and come in two forms: consumption towns and non-consumption “idle” malls. Businesses do not consume resources and have a score based on the amounts of resources they require. Completing them can unlock towns and earn truck boosts.

There are thousands of towns and businesses to complete, along with hundreds of towns and thousands of businesses and other places. You can choose the order in which to tackle towns, earn bonuses for completing regions and contracts, and supply and finish large cities. Cargo can come from existing industries or be produced in industries you build yourself. The map includes over 150 industry types, which you can upgrade for greater, exponential throughput.

Trucks and roads

The game uses large, fast trucks, but big trucks cannot travel everywhere. Fixing roads can speed up your trucks, and businesses can provide boosts, including a super speed multiplier. When a delivery earns a truck bonus, it goes to the last truck to deliver.

Roads to towns and businesses are already at the highest quality and do not need upgrading, but broken roads elsewhere need deliveries. You can work through long, complex routes of road enhancements to give large trucks access across a state or country. The game also includes cargo stores, ferries that large trucks cannot cross, and quarantine checkpoints.

A network of puzzles

The whole game is a large puzzle made up of smaller challenges. Some towns are easy to complete; others call for careful planning and long supply chains. The further you progress from the starting point, the more strategies you can use. You can complete towns, roads, industries, contracts, regions and states for in-game and Steam achievements.

The towns, roads and map are to scale, and industry locations reflect current or historical placement. LOGistICAL 2 continues the LOGistICAL puzzle series with an enhanced map, new road mapping and other functions. Its many small and large puzzles include towns with varied resource requirements and road upgrades; some LOGistICAL 2 updates are also backward compatible with LOGistICAL 1 modules.