Mini Motorways

Reviewed after 100% achievements. This game gets significantly more fun the more you view it as a puzzle game rather than a city planning game. You are not trying to build a nice place to live. Instead, you are trying to funnel the right cars to the right places in whatever way works best. This leads you into some city designs which would make absolutely no sense in a normal city builder, but looking at it as a puzzle game, this is not a problem whatsoever. To be clear: there is no goal in the game other than to make roads for the cars to reach the right color of business. The cars will always go the fastest route, and always deploy from the nearest available house, so you don't need to do any management at all other than setting up the roads and trying to plan it so that there isn't gridlock. This simple task never gets boring for long because the demand for cars will ramp up to inifinity until you lose. You can play "endless" mode once you lose, but trying to get the most trips completed before that point is the real draw, like trying to get the highest score or level in Tetris.

This game is fun af. Very basic in its gameplay loop and I wish they had opened up steam workshop support to expand this games fun factor.

This game is really fun! The unpredictability of the location spawns makes it fun every time. It may be frustrating sometimes if the houses and mall spawn in unconventional spots, but that is part of the fun that makes this game great. The graphics are also really cute and smooth, definitely recommend!

Absolutely, wonderful, peaceful, and enjoyable piece of city building mechanics where you conduct traffic the way you see fit. Starts out slow but be ready for when your town grows cause things can get really hectic! A must have game that's harder than it may look!

When I want a game that is very chill and I can play while watching YouTube or Movies, I go to MM. This game is just the right amount of engagement for it to be something you relax playing for hours. I have seen this game also makes me wonder why our road systems in real life are so bad. "If I can make a better road system in MM, why are we making worse road systems in real life" type shii.
Great game, recommend playing, get at least 1000 points on every map... yw

This dystopian horror story is akin to that of "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life". in that it scars you forever.

Yellow is always there, in corroboration with Green and Pink, For now, Blue is the only safe bet. . .

I don't understand how I became the god who watches from above in apathy at the consequences of such unimaginable horrors.. 10/10

This review covers how Mini Motorways represents an iterative improvement on the devs' earlier game Mini Metro.

Probably one of my favorite casual puzzle games to come back to time and time again. Its a great city-builder/chill/puzzle crossover that I can't get enough of! The colorways for each place & map theme are so aesthetically pleasing - and not to mention the light/dark modes. Love it. I'm a stan forever. Their other game mini metro is also perfect so give the bundle a shot!

The game is just soooo challenging that I can't stop playing! 10/10 highly recommended for those whose minds won't stop thinking haha best game to play before going to sleep <3

I was looking for something like simcity for a regular laptop, found this and it is way more challenging, I play it daily, my daughter and I play for high score, makes it more challenging that way. Lots of fun passing lots of time with this cool little game.

Really good game! First, the graphics. The graphics are really good for worse computers (Like mine)
Second, the enjoyability/replayability. Its really fun and enjoyable if your wasting time

OMG, i love this game so much, i enjoy making some roads that drive the city, make some new skills w/ rorundabouts, motorways, etc.

Trading cards can also be collected on Steam.

It is a great game, but very easy to go wrong with your planing
such as the same factory zone can only have one entry point, there is nothing you can do

I really enjoyed Mini Motorways! I started playing when it came out a couple of years ago but I still go back to it from time to time. Cannot recommend it enough!

Mini Motorways is a good- mostly calm game. The game has lots of levels to offer, and lots of road attachments and features (such as Roundabouts, Traffic lights). Overall, for the games price, it provides a lot of value.

After a couple of dozen hours in this game, I can confidently say it's incredibly engaging. Designing road networks turned out to be not only entertaining but also surprisingly relaxing. I especially loved how the pace of the game shifts smoothly—starting off calm and then requiring more strategic thinking. If you enjoy puzzles that make you think without being too stressful, I highly recommend it!

Very fun and extremely replayable. I pull this up any time I need to just decompress and relax for awhile.

As you play it, each of the short runs starts as very casual, and becomes very stressful and frustrating over time.
When I'm in a mood where I want to challenge myself, then the beginning and middle feel very boring.
When I'm in a mood where I want to simply chill and relax, then the later game stages feel annoying and frustrating.
I like games that have many different moods (e.g. Rimworld), but in those games, if you solve the problems that are thrown your way, you can improve your situation. In Mini Motorways you know that it's only downhill from there, and everything you manage to accomplish just leads to bigger problems. Like some terminal illness.

I love this game so much because it's really soothing. Although Im really sad that Athens is not in the game.. It's a great city and it's the capital of greece which is known for it's huge variety of transportation methods!

This game really hits the sweet spot between being satisfying, challenging, and fun.

Peak game, very chill and fun to play while watching youtube!!!

An oddly relaxing game in all it's chaos. Love to come back to the game every now and then when I'm too tired to play anything else and just want to draw tiny roads for tiny pastel cars.

An engaging game that is simple on the surface but becomes much deeper as you try to keep the traffic running smoothly in each of the cities. I don't know that you can ever "win" the game but you can always get better.

Fun, easy to pick up. Eventually can become frustrating with the nonstop buildup of complexity, but if you're getting annoyed you've probably played it more than enough anyway.

Fun little game where you have to connect stuff and keep it running. A good 20-80 hours of time depending on who you are.

Played this game for sometime and it is amazing a must buy, its challenging and has tons of different levels each with three own challenges along with leader boards and daily/weekly challenges. I haven't encountered any bugs or problems with the game so far.

i like it but it has a bug on mac where you have to double click everything for it to register

When you like chill game to play during long car rides then its perfect.

Mini Motorways is easily the most therapeutic game in my Steam library. There's something incredibly calming about designing infrastructure for the world’s most iconic cities, all while binge-watching The Office in the background.

Having lived in Cairns City, QLD, Australia, for the past four years, it felt both delightful and almost surreal to see Cairns added as a playable location last month. Honestly, I’m in half a mind to send a screen shot of my most recent session to the local council, I think it might help improve traffic management around my apartment complex.

What makes this game truly remarkable is how well-priced it is for such a polished and satisfying experience. It’s simple to understand, easy to pick up, and endlessly replayable, offering hours of rewarding gameplay that’s as engaging as it is relaxing.

If you’re looking for a game that won’t break the wallet but still delivers a worthwhile and satisfying experience, Mini Motorways is the perfect pick. I’m only 30 hours in and totally fine with the fact that I’ll be racking up many more. Honestly, it’s like therapy in game form!

Such an addictive little game, really love it so much! I love how seamlessly the zoom happens as your progress.
Would love any more updates for the game, maybe like a Creative Mode, different vehicles/modes of transport, additional road options like One-Ways, yield vs stop signs, custom colour themes, etc

Love the night mode as well

great game with daily challenges and leaderboard. modern take on city skylines on easy mode

In short, Mini Motorway is a minimalist and engaging puzzle game with a lot of content and updates for the price point. Straightforward to learn, hard to master. It is a cerebral and family friendly game with some frustrating moments with the RNG in longer runs. Overall I still recommend it.

You begin your levels on maps inspired by real world cities. The maps are a grid. Homes appear at random tile around the map, and businesses appear on random parts on the map but take more than one space. Each business has a parking lot where has an entrance in one of its four sides. Homes and Businesses have colours, and Homes will generate two cars that go on trips to businesses of a matching colour, the car will drive through the roads you place (using a limited number of road tiles), park in the lot for a moment, take away a token indicating a trip from the business , and then return to their proper home. Businesses generate trips over time, and if too many trips build up over time without being taken away by a car; then the game is over. More buildings and houses, including those of new colours, will spawn onto the map over time to increase the difficulty, some buildings will turn from rectangles to circles, in which the circle businesses generate trips at a faster rate.

One trip gives the player one point, you aim for a high score. The game never ends until you lose. At set intervals the player is given the option to choose between many road tiles, or few road tiles alongside another kind of tile, such as a bridge (goes over water), a tunnel (goes through mountains), a motorway (a highway that is highly adaptable and bypasses other traffic), traffic lights or roundabouts.

The rules are straightforward but provide, the visuals and audio fairly easy to understand even if it can become easy to miss the alerts when a building is going to fail once the map is more cluttered and busy. The game is a fun addictive puzzle game that I have spent a good amount of time playing. This is a good game for families as it has no violence, language etc and is easy enough for someone new to gaming to learn. The game has a lot of content, with somewhat regular updates adding new maps and daily/weekly challenges that modify the game's rule-set. The very light sprinkle of rouge-like structure (Homes, Businesses and upgrade choices are randomised, maps are static) adds replay value even though the only "meta progression" between runs is unlocking new maps and certain modes on any given map.

Sometimes the randomness can really make a run excessively difficult in a way that is frustrating when a business of a new colour pops in on one side of the map and the homes of the matching colour appear on the other side of the map, if you do not have excessive reserves of roads or a motorway in your pocket, you are basically going to fail in short order. For some this may ruin the game but I was able to get a lot of fun out of it despite that legitimate flaw because it did not outweigh the positives. Some high level players are able to work around this according to online posts. I didn't look up the meta so I don't know how with certainly but I assume some amount of cheese by putting roads in places that would deny unwanted spaces even if they do serve any immediate objective for the player by being put where they are.

Jogo muito relax, confesso que as vezes, os spaws das construções são bem trolls, acho que poderia melhorar isso, tirando isso, gostei de basicamente tudo, bem bastante mapa e bastante desafios para você tentar completar

It's really satisfying, fun and maybe a little addictive. I really reccomend buying this game!!

its very fun and diferant everytime you play even if its the same place

Thanks to @GabSmolders for the video (on YT), which helped me learn more about this game before I bought it. I love the game is more fun than Mini Metro (which, I have on Android). I only wish this game had an Android, Google play, version. I'd love to take this on the go.

My go to when I want to de-stress. The minimalist look and ASMR- esk sounds soothe my soul.. until I'm >3000 points in a game and my seemingly efficient infrastructure starts breaking down. Highly recommend.

I should have been a fucken engineer building all this shit. haha nah jk, but this game is fun if you like chaotic stressful infrastructure management.

This game is awesome, defo an improvement over Mini Metro. It maintains the minimalist art style of Metro, but has a game play system that doesn't feel stale after a few sessions.

Mini Motorways is a dystopian horror story disguised as a traffic sim. Why does one yellow house need to send its car fleet to the far side of the city every five seconds? Who designed a city with no zoning laws? Why are the green houses colluding to destroy my network? I’m not building a city; I’m surviving an existential crisis in road form. 10/10 would argue with fictional cars again.

Honestly a very fun and relaxing game. Simple mechanics, lovely minimalist graphics and challenging scenarios. A great game to just sit back, relax and don't stress.

I love it, I don't know what else to say, I love management games, I really like casual games, this feels like my comfort game when I just want to chill out for a bit

my horrible laptop runs this great and its a fun little game to play while in class.

Really relaxing beautiful game. The sounds and ui ease of use makes this a 10/10 puzzle game! Note : play endless mode if you just wanna chill and grow the city.

Very good game. Simple concept and executed very well. The road building mechanic is a little janky sometimes, but most of the time the gameplay is flawless

It's surprisingly satisfying, and the daily challenges keep the game interesting.

Really fun game.
I usually don't spend money on games but this is great.
Only downside is that I can't play this on my android phone (though mini metro does).
Would be great if the "infinite" gamemode also stays after you leave the game so you can really build on a city infinitly.

This game really gets your brain going. I have fun thinking of ways on how to connect the roads.

Such a simple concept, yet such a fun game! The mechanics are very easy to understand and I love the dark mode the game comes with! So addicting, I hadn't realised I had been playing for 6 hours already! Would definitely recommend!

Amazing game, loved it even more than mini metro on my phone, even though this studio only has 2 games, both of them are absolute gems