Logistical: Russia

LOGistICAL: Russia is a standalone open-world strategy puzzle game about transporting cargo across Russia. You deliver goods to complete towns, solve road puzzles and fulfil contracts, choosing your own order of progress. It is over four times larger than the original LOGistICAL and includes more than 5,800 towns, including Moscow, Mokba, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and places across Siberia.

Plan deliveries and routes

Towns consume the cargo needed to complete them. Some goods are easy to obtain, while others must be produced at industries; you can use existing industries or build your own, then upgrade them to increase throughput. Cargo stores can help, and trucks can be improved with bonuses. The last truck to deliver receives the bonus.

Large trucks carry more cargo but cannot travel everywhere. Broken roads need deliveries before they can be used, and complex road-enhancement routes can eventually open access across the state to large trucks. Ferries cannot carry large trucks, and quarantine checkpoints add further obstacles. Towns and maps are to scale, with current or historical industry placement.

Towns and puzzles

Each town is its own puzzle, and the whole game forms a larger one. Some towns are straightforward; others call for complex planning, and your options for strategy expand as you move farther from the start. You can supply and finish large cities, as well as tackle many other small and large puzzles and situations.

Begin with the tutorial and the included Isle of Man module, which includes a game speedup, before starting in Russia. The game also offers contracts with in-game awards. Completing towns, roads, industries, contracts, regions and states earns in-game and Steam achievements, with bonuses for finishing regions and contracts.

Russia features

The Russia edition adds airplanes, airports, airways, airport trucks and airport zones, along with more puzzles and expanded statistics. It also includes end-of-region and end-of-game data, town completion dates, broken-road icons, interface updates such as dragging without clicking and seeing town availability on mouse-over, and function optimizations including multi-truck route creation and finding town codes. The game has its own money, trucks and challenges and does not require the original LOGistICAL.