![]() I don’t drive often, but when I do, I find myself thinking the same thing I’m imagining my Mini Motorway drivers are: Who designed this thing? None of the cities available in Mini Motorways are Boston, but I’m putting a little Boston stamp on all of them. I think this habit is because I live in Massachusetts, a state with notoriously bad drivers and absurdly designed roads. My cities are averaging around 400 to 500 cars on the road before everything goes to chaos, which feels pretty good considering I’m prone to creating chaotic scenarios. If too many cars build up on the city’s streets, the city will grind to a halt and the game will end. With these resources, you’re free to build the city however you choose, but it’s got to keep running. Road tiles refresh seven days - in-game time - plus an extra, sometimes a motorway, other times a bridge or stoplight. You’re given a limited number of resources to build with road tiles, bridges, motorways, and stoplights are all intermittently available. City planning, first, starts slow, with a house or two and a single car park. Unfortunately for the imaginary citizens of my Mini Motorways cities (Los Angeles, Beijing, Tokyo, Dar es Salaam, Moscow, and Munch), I’m all they’ve got. I’m so sorry Dinosaur Polo Club via Polygon Houses and car parks pop up, unconnected, across the game’s map. Cities in Mini Motorways have a Google Maps–esque aesthetic, except the roads are missing. ![]() The game was released on mobile with Apple Arcade, Apple’s mobile gaming subscription program Mini Motorways is exclusively available on iOS devices for now, but will eventually come to Steam, too. ![]() Mini Motorways is an iteration on that, swapping train lines for roadways. Mini Motorways is developer Dinosaur Polo Club’s follow-up to Mini Metro, a strategy simulator game where players created public transit maps. The monster is me - an evil, terrible city planner who has no idea what she’s doing. Often, I imagine, it’s this: What monster designed these roads? But rather than thinking about where they’re going or what they’re doing, I think about what they’re thinking about. I like to imagine the lives of drivers that travel through my Mini Motorways cities each day.
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