The gameplay loop is a mix of simple mechanics with an urge to do better each time and push towards a higher score. Mini Motorways has a soothing soundtrack and subtle audio cues that chime as you play and expand your city or to notify you when traffic is in need of attention or a stop light. There’s also a night mode which adds lights in front of cars and is just easier on the eyes when playing late at night. The game does have some more graphically pleasing elements to mix things up like trees and bushes, waves in the water, shadows from buildings and details in cars. The visuals in Mini Motorways are minimalistic like Dinosaur Polo Club’s Mini Metrotitle. Once the timer counts down, it’s all over, so build wisely to avoid the level ending failure notice. The traffic moves on its own through those obstacles routing along the fastest route, but sometimes creating an out of the way route may also be helpful to avoid congestion.įailure in the game happens if too many commuters are needed for a given building and not enough cars help to offset that need. Once you lay some roads connecting the houses with their destinations (businesses/storefronts/etc.) in the same color matching fashion the cars will automatically drive to the destination.Ĭomplication sets in when depending on the roads you have already laid out you may need to invest in bridges or highways to get around traffic jams or set up the aforementioned roundabouts and traffic lights to ensure smooth transitions in congested areas. There are also modes for having to toggle on/off the button or holding it down as you ‘draw’ out your roadway system.
You can lay down roads with A, or remove roads with B, or grab a special item like a traffic light or roundabout from your sidebar menu. The simplistic gameplay loop of getting to your destination is controlled by moving with your left control stick. **Sidenote, there are accessibility options for color differences modes for those wondering.** As you complete the weeks you begin to grow your city adding new houses and businesses of varying colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, and white. I found it simple enough, but where the game hooks you is in its desire it creates in you to do better.Įach time you play a Mini Motorways city you start off at different places on the map, with different needs, and roadway and bridge numbers. You move through the main campaign by meeting a goal of a certain commuter number to unlock the next metropolis. You will quickly find that as your city grows you will need to expand your arsenal of roadway management by adding roundabouts, traffic lights, and interstate highway connections. The premise of the ‘Mini Series’ of games is to get from point A to point B in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. In Mini Motorways we move above ground, except while making tunnels, to create roads, highways, bridges and tunnels to connect people and keep traffic flowing. Mini Motorways is for all intents and purposes a spiritual successor to Dinosuar Polo Club’s first outing that featured the subway or “tubes” of a growing city. In this installment, we’re covering Mini Motorways by developer Dinosaur Polo Club.
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Welcome to EXPlay, (Explain & Play)the review series where we care not for scores but tell it how it is when it comes to every game we get our hands on, whilst also taking the time to include some lengthy gameplay, to give you the reader, the chance to shape your own impressions and views whilst watching and reading. Compete against other players in Daily and Weekly Challenges.By jonathanober Dinosaur Polo Club, Explain & Play, EXPlay, Mini Motorways, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, review.Export GIFs of your city layouts to share with your friends.Unlock new maps and achievements as you achieve mastery.
Relax to a responsive soundtrack from Disasterpeace that grows along with your city.Select different color palettes on every map including colorblind and night modes.Choose from a variety of upgrades to meet the demands of your ever-expanding road network: highways, roundabouts, and more!.Explore stunning maps inspired by cities all around the world.Draw roads in dynamic cities that grow and change-every game is unique!.How long can you keep the cities of the world moving? Redesign your city to keep the traffic flowing, and carefully manage upgrades to meet the changing demands. Build a road network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. 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.įrom the makers of Mini Metro, Mini Motorways is a game about drawing the roads that drive a growing city.
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