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!

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.

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 a huge improvement over its predecessor, Mini Metro. Mini Metro was simple to a fault. It felt like when a wrinkle emerged in your system, it was more so an annoyance to fix rather than a fun puzzle to solve. This feeling is greatly reduced in Mini Motorways thanks to a greater level of freedom that you are given. Rather than connecting two points together and the path being auto-generated, you are granted thee freedom to draw your own paths, roads in this case, which helps give you a greater sense of control. You get to enjoy this freedom on a sizable amount of maps, and put yourself to the test in daily and weekly challenges. Mini Motorways, while simple, offers greater depth than its predecessor making it a much more engaging experience.

Incredibly slick and streamlined little puzzle game, with more depth than you'd expect from its simplistic premise and presentation.

There are a couple of things I wish the game had explained better: for a very long time I assumed the traffic AI was much smarter than it was, which meant I ended up building hundreds of unused relief roads. However aside from this, the game does a very good job of quickly teaching you the bare minimum you need to know to play.

The actual game itself is extremely addicting, but the early and late game can be a little frustrating. The game could really use a 3rd speed setting to speed up the early game where there is nothing to do but wait, and the complexity of the networks you end up building can make failure appear to come out of nowhere towards the end. But overall, this is near enough exactly what you want from a pick-up-and-go puzzle game, and I can thoroughly recommend.