It’s splitscreen, so there’s no down time. Both players can do everything simultaneously, they are not bound to the same environment. I surely recommend it. It will most likely be the only way I play it.

In Original Sin games there was a hybrid of split and shared screen, so you could change it on the fly. I hope they add it in this game too.

I tried openttd again after 15 or so years and it felt very simple to me. The passengers were just cargo with no predetermined destinations and could be unloaded to any station that accepted passengers. Am I missing something?

If you like Anno and/or Banished, you should check out Kingdoms Reborn. It’s similar to Banished, but is still under development and has multiplayer! It was basically the only game of it’s kind that had multi that I could find.