Do I like city builders like Cities: Skylines and SimCity 4, or do I just like road builders? I spend most of my time in these games fine-tuning the road and intersection network that forms the arteries of my cities and trying to solve traffic congestion through public transportation and simulation-expanding mods.
Enter Junxions, a traffic engineering game focused entirely on the simulation and construction of highways, railways and pedestrian walkways, right down to coding traffic lights. It is aimed to be released in 2025 and you will find its trailer below.
Junxions' main mode takes you through a series of handcrafted maps where you must use existing tools to solve traffic problems around the limitations of pre-existing structures. Besides traffic laws, you need to take into account complications (and benefits) such as bus lanes, bike lanes, tram lanes, and pedestrian crossings of all kinds.
There's also a sandbox mode for free-form experiments and, perhaps most interestingly, the ability to input real-world coordinates and create a map based on a real-world location. If you want to create a map based on your hometown and fix that constantly clogged intersection during your commute, you can do that.
The Steam page also states that the game has been created with “full support for modding,” including sharing maps, traffic solutions, and importing custom models.
I'm really excited that this exists. People forget that before making Cities: Skylines, Colossal Order cut its teeth on Cities In Motion, a similarly focused traffic simulation. Also I'm from the roundabout obsessed UK. We fear they may trap us forever and we congratulate them on the UK Roundabout of the Year award being named today. I look forward to finding out whether Junxions is one to die for or celebrate when it hits theaters in 2025.