It's not the most environmentally friendly picture in the world (we can always pretend they're electric cars, can't we?), but having your citizens on the road like this does create a much busier and more authentic picture of your city's overall progress than the abstract shapes queuing up at its predecessor's metro stations.Ĭrucially, that busyness doesn't come at the cost of clarity, especially when things start to go wrong. The more pins you collect, the higher your overall score at the end. These colour-coded depots gradually fill up with little pins, at which point a car of the corresponding colour will pull out of their drive and go and collect it, like an ant's nest of frantic Deliveroo drivers. Whereas before you were joining up subway stations to get people to their intended destination, Motorways sees you building roads between houses and increasingly busy shopping centres.

Like its subterranean predecessor, Mini Motorways starts small, the camera focused tightly on just a small cluster of map tiles. But by golly is it fun.Įven with the action taking place above ground this time, the general rhythm of Mini Motorways will feel instantly familiar to previous Metro heads. The pins stack up, jams back up for miles, and gridlock eventually brings the whole city to a crashing halt. Just when I think I've got a handle on ferrying each city's busy commuters between their homes and giant industrial centres, something inevitably goes wrong.

If the brilliant Mini Metro gave me a newfound admiration for city subway designers, then Dinosaur Polo Club's latest minimalist transport sim Mini Motorways proves that urban road planners are actual god tier human beings.Įven with some of today's most iconic conurbations such as LA, Tokyo and Dubai reduced to their neatest, simplest geographical lines and land masses, I still manage to make a pig's ear of laying down a functioning road network. Building on the excellent Mini Metro that came before it, Mini Motorways is a great evolution of Dinosaur Polo Club's minimalist transport sim.

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