If you have an Apple Arcade subscription, then you should be playing Mini Motorways already. The same goes for those that play on Steam, where picking this one up should be a no-brainer. The Switch version is a bit more difficult to recommend, but that is only if you’re having difficulty stomaching the price point. If you can get past that, Mini Motorways is nothing short but an essential addition to your library. It’s sleek, addictive, and most importantly, incredibly fun.
Mini Motorways
Dinosaur Polo Club · Jul 20, 2021
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Have you ever been stuck in traffic and wished you could do something to fix it? In Mini Motorways, the city’s traffic problems are in your hands.
From the makers of Mini Metro, Mini Motorways is a game about drawing the roads that drive a growing city. Build a road network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your city to keep the traffic flowing, and carefully manage upgrades to meet the changing demands. How long can you keep the cities of the world moving?
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- Though it lacks content and features, Mini Motorways has consumed much of my gaming time since I downloaded it more than a week ago. The simple gameplay, clean interface, and satisfying difficulty ramp led me to say, “Just one more run,” several times a session before ultimately calling it quits. Mini Metro hooked me when it first came to iOS years ago and has remained one of my favorite games to enjoy in short bursts, and I’m glad to add Mini Motorways to that same gaming rotation.
- Mini Motorways is a fun and oddly relaxing traffic management sim that’s ideally suited for short play sessions. What it lacks in options and modes, it makes up for with a gameplay hook that’s surprisingly easy to pick up and offers plenty of room for strategic thinking.
- 8.7It’s an addictive and incredibly satisfying experience. The game runs perfectly fine on the Switch, offering both physical and touch controls. The bigger screen of the iPad is even better, but I wouldn’t say that you sacrifice much. At least you can actually buy it now.
- It could have been a really pretentious and mediocre art game, but Mini Motorways ended up being the complete opposite. This is pure arcade bliss, a simple but ridiculously challenging puzzler that won me over like few games in the genre. I can’t remember the last time I played a Switch game until its batteries ran completely dry because of how addictive and perfectly suited for portable play it was.
- Mini Motorways is simple and extremely addictive. Experimentation with how best to use each element is fun and satisfying when something clicks. And when it doesn’t, you simply pick that piece back up and try something else.
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Mini Motorways
I remember when the game first came out, my YouTube recommendation feed was filled with “mini motorways” videos, and now, I can see why lots of people enjoy the game. Like the game descriptions says, “Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?” Mini motorway is a game where you build roads for the people to go where they need to go. With limited resources, you'll start with a few roads to connect the houses to a “mall” or some sort of big building. Every week, more houses starts to appear, and you'll get a choice, to choose either two option. “More roads” or fewer roads but a special thing, like a bridge, traffic lights and other stuff which are useful to make the roads more organize which makes it faster for the people to travel around the place. The goal is basically to survive as long as you can, the only way to lose is, if a car doesn't reach their designated place in time. It's a nice and very chill game to play. There are 12 levels. Once you're done, you can still have fun by playing the weekly challenge and the daily challenge. What i really like about mini motorways is the art style, it's very clean and cute. Especially the cars and buildings, when you reach a point where a trillion cars are moving around, the view is amazing. The game is simple and easy to learn and have fun, for $10, it can probably last you about an hour or two. **Options,** for people who are colourblind, there is a “colourblind” option to enable and turning it on, makes the game more colourful as there are barely any colour type in the game, only yellow, red, grey, white etc. But turning on colourblind mode, you'll see colours like purple, which makes the game more colourful and fascinating. Just seeing all the coloured cars travelling to their workplace or some sort of building, it's sooo satisfying. And each level has a different colour background, for Beijing, it's blue and white, for Tokyo, it's pink and white. Not spoiling the rest, you should check it out though. Worth trying. Even if it is only last for an hour or two. It's worth the experiences. What I don't like about mini motorway, is the fact that there's no background music while you're playing, it's just silence, which is very awkward. And makes it very boring when you're sleepy. WORTH TRYING!!!!! -[Steam page](Steam page)
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