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Mini Metro

You design a subway network for a growing city. Connect stations with lines and run trains to carry commuters to their destinations. Passengers head for stations marked with matching shapes, while platforms can hold only a limited number of waiting riders. Redraw routes, move trains, and use scarce resources such as extra carriages and bridges to keep the network moving. New stations and passengers appear as each run progresses, with their locations and demands changing from game to game. Play across city maps and modes including scored, endless, extreme, and creative play, with additional map and daily challenges.

Design subway lines for a growing city, match riders to destinations, and manage trains and upgrades before stations overflow.

Released 06 Nov 2015

96%positive of
16k player reviews

$9.99

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Strategy

Puzzle

Match Riders to Stations

Redraw Lines Mid-Run

Manage Crowded Platforms

Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?

Developed by Dinosaur Polo Club · Published by Dinosaur Polo Club

Engineering a MEGA TUNNEL to save my train network!

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Players Praise Most

Minimalist Visual Design
Strategic Route Planning
Calm, Tense Pacing
Replayable City Maps

Common Player Critiques

Random Station Spawns
Late-Game Micromanagement
Repetitive Map Differences
Luck-Based Challenges

96%

positive of 16k player reviews

77/100

Metacritic

From the Devs

In Mini Metro, you take on the task of designing the subway layout for a rapidly expanding city. Your city starts with three stations. Draw routes between these stations to connect them with subway lines. Commuters travel along your lines to get around the city as fast as they can. Each station can only hold a handful of waiting commuters so your subway network will need to be well-designed to avoid delays.

The city is growing. More stations are opening, and commuters are appearing faster. The demands on your network are ever-increasing. You'll be constantly redesigning your lines to maximise efficiency. The new assets you earn every week will help immensely — as long as they're used wisely.

Eventually your network will fail. Stations will open too quickly. Commuters will crowd the platforms. How long the city keeps moving is up to you.

Key Features

Compelling, constructive, hectic, relaxed gameplay. If that makes sense. It doesn't though, aye? You just gotta play it.
Three game modes: Normal for quick scored games, Endless for stress-free sandbox play, and Extreme for the ultimate challenge.
Build your metro exactly how you want to with the all-new Creative mode.
Over two dozen real-world cities! Design subways for London, Paris, New York City, Osaka, Saint Petersburg, São Paulo, Istanbul, Auckland and many more! Each has a unique colour theme, set of obstacles, and pace.
Random city growth, so each game plays out differently. A strategy that proved successful last game may not help you in the next.
Each game's map is a work of art, built by you in the classic abstract subway style of Harry Beck. If you think it's a keeper, save it, tweet it, show it off, or make it your desktop background!
Responsive soundtrack created by your metro system, engineered by Disasterpeace.
Colorblind and night modes.
Trains! Did we mention them yet?
Vast library of player-created maps for you to explore in Steam Workshop!

"Mini Metro’s clean, stylish interface encourages me over and over again to make the trains run on time, and there’s a deeper amount of strategy to growing a sprawling metro system than meets the eye. I wasn’t just hypnotized by the rhythmic movement of trains from station to station, I was completely absorbed in making them perfect." - IGN

Back of the Box

Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements	73
Age ratings	ClassInd (Brazil) L IGRS (Indonesia) 3 Steam (Germany) 0
Controller required	No
Metacritic	77/100 View on Metacritic
Website	Official website