I found Transport Fever 2 very disappointing. It dumbed down the economic model: businesses turn out cargoes even if you don’t carry them to market. It reduced supply chain challenges: the first game has interesting twists, like businesses whose output was halved if you didn’t carry less-desirable byproducts away. The second game simply eliminated this.

It also didn’t make any huge improvements otherwise and was really more like a 1.5. I recommend the first game over the second.