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Mini Motorways
File:Mini Motorways icon.png
Developer(s)Dinosaur Polo Club
Platform(s)iOS (Apple Arcade), Steam
ReleaseiOS
September 19, 2019
Steam
July 20, 2021

Mini Motorways is a puzzle strategy game released by New Zealand[1] studio Dinosaur Polo Club. The game tasks the player with creating roads connect colored houses to buildings.

The game was released on Apple Arcade in September 2019[2] and on the Steam store in July (20th 8:00am Pacific Time) 2021[3] and plans to release on the Nintendo Switch in early 2022.[4]

Gameplay

The game plays similarly to Mini Metro, its predecessor, except it involves building roads instead of rail networks.[5] The game consists of drawing roads to link houses (which contain cars) to buildings of identical colors (red to red, yellow to yellow, etc.).[6][7] New buildings and houses appear randomly as the game progresses.[7] The buildings have pins which the cars of the correct color must collect. The score is the number of pins that have been collected. [8] If too many pins accumulate on a building (seven for square buildings and ten for circular buildings), a timer is set. Once a building's timer is full, the game is over.[8] Vehicles reaching the destination will reduce the progression of the timer slightly. If the timer is reduced completely, it will split back up into standard pins.

After each week, the player may choose between two upgrade choices, which could include special tools.[6] Both choices will always provide extra road tiles, and one choice will always provide a special tool. Sometimes one of the choices will just be road tiles. Special tools include:

  • Bridges - Build a road across water. Only one Bridge upgrade is used for a length of road across water, no matter how long the Bridge is.
  • Traffic Lights - Alternates the flow of traffic. Four-way intersections only.
  • Roundabout - A 3x3 circle of one-way road (no road tiles needed to build) to help improve efficiency of an intersection.
  • Motorway - A singular stretch of road that links point A directly to point B, passing over everything (Bridges not required over water) in its way.

Reviews

Mini Motorways received generally positive reviews. Nathan Reinauer from TouchArcade praised the game's soundtrack and minimalistic art style, both similar to Mini Metro.[6]

The traffic light upgrade was criticized for its lack of usefulness in gameplay, often making the traffic worse.[6][9]

References

  1. ^ https://dinopoloclub.com/
  2. ^ "Mini Motorways". Metacritic. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  3. ^ "Mini Motorways". Metacritic. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  4. ^ Life, Nintendo (2021-05-24). "Apple Arcade's Mini Motorways Is Cruising Onto Switch Next Year". Nintendo Life. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  5. ^ Gregson-Wood, Stephen. "Mini Motorways is a management game where you have to create road networks that's available on Apple Arcade". www.pocketgamer.com. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  6. ^ a b c d "Apple Arcade: 'Mini Motorways' Review - More Micro Management". TouchArcade. 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  7. ^ a b Donlan, Christian (2019-09-23). "Mini Motorways is the gloriously organic sequel to Mini Metro". Eurogamer. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  8. ^ a b Fisher, Carl 'The Disc' (2019-12-15). "Game Review: Mini Motorways (Mobile)". Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  9. ^ "Apple Arcade: Mini Motorways Is an Addictive Puzzle Game I Can't Stop Playing". The Mac Observer. 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
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