It's a cool game but I thought it was a city builder basically but without buildings. I didn't realize how much you have to like "meta" it, I never won a game in 2 hours of play (which is fine, I don't wanna be good at everything instantly) but I learned that was because I was connecting roads together for different colors and using traffic lights. If you look up tips and tricks online people say to never connect different colored roads together or use traffic lights, seems kind of stupid and makes it more of a puzzle game which isn't what I was expecting when I bought it. I want to be able to build a real city with streets and connecting highways, not deliberately isolate roads by colors and not connect them, it doesn't feel like a real city that way.

Aesthetically and functionally, Mini Motorways feels smooth and simple. As a puzzle, however, it is frustrating to a fault. The car AI gets stuck in places that cannot be avoided, such as the one opening you get to a building where all the cars simply have to converge, and the traffic light and roundabouts are useless due to their placement restrictions. But the biggest problem that gets in the way of making this a fun puzzler is the fact that everything is dictated by RNG. If you do not get motorways, you're fucked. If buildings and houses spawn in the middle of nowhere, you're fucked. If buildings and houses spawn on other roads you already built, you're ultrafucked. Sorry Mini Motorways, restarting runs until you get the best infrastructure handed to you is dull.

Mini Motorways is my one of my favorite little indie strategy games. Whenever I'm going somewhere and I bring my Laptop, you already know Mini Motorways is probably going to be played.

What always starts out as a nice relaxing puzzle game will eventually devolve into absolute chaos as you get a new color placed on the other side of the map to where the house is and have to uproot your entire network to make it work. It's such a fun and easily replayable game, with the daily and weekly challenges there to keep it interesting.

A good, chill game to pass your time that can get quite a bit hard later on. The art-style is very calming and pleasing to look at, and it also includes night mode! There are quite a lot of levels, each having their own theme and aesthetic to them and some even bring new obstacles and options to deal with said obstacles.

The game is updated with weekly and daily challenges which keep the experience fresh even after you've finished it for good. The only gripe that I have with this game are the traffic lights, they're practically useless. Recent patches have tried fixing them, but compared to other options to deal with the traffic, I just didn't find much use for them. Still it's a pretty enjoyable game!