For example, if you have extra roads, its a good idea to build them anyways in places where you don’t want things to spawn. There are a few gimicky things that I do but don’t love. And if that timer finishes, it’s game over for you!įor the most part, the game works really well. Thing is, if you cannot get cars to their destinations fast enough, a timer will eventually appear. It will fill up again, so having a good supply of cars ready to head out is paramount to success. When a car arrives, the indicator goes down by one. Each destination will indicate the required number of cars that need to arrive. So with an armful of roads, traffic lights, roundabouts, and more, you will need to start designing your city structure so that you don’t have too much congestion. Those items could be 30 more road tiles to use, 20 road tiles and one of a pair of stoplights, a bridge, or a roundabout or, they might provide you 10 road tiles and a motorway (highway), the most valuable item in the game. The game doesn’t leave you high and dry, however, as they provide a new set of items each week. The destinations and the houses where the cars spawn randomly spawn on the map, which means it can be tricky to properly plan your routes from A to B without causing some issues. Red cars need to make it to red destinations, blue cars to blue destinations, and so on.
That is the case for Mini Motorways, a game available on Apple Arcade for a long while now, and just recently launching on Nintendo Switch.ĭuring last week’s Nintendo Indie World Showcase, I was waiting for that one game announcement where the narrator would say, “And this will be available later today.” I was glad when that game ended up being Mini Motorways, an easy to understand, but hard to master puzzle game where you will move different coloured cars through a city to their destinations, trying to score points, and not creating grid lock that will shut down the city.Īnd it really is that simple of a concept. That’s how it is for many games on Apple Arcade, and while these games do often make it to other platforms, it can take a long time. The bad news is when games launch on a subscription service and that is the ONLY way to play them. You can also earn achievements based upon how many points you’ve earned.Author: Adam Roffel Category: Articles, News, Switch News, Date: 16th May, 2022 The one good thing about subscription services is that you can get a lot of games for one somewhat low monthly price. Occasionally, the game will troll you with random spawns across the river and if you do not have an extra bridge or two, then you are screwed until Sunday.Įach map has its own leaderboard of other players based on how many mini-cars commute to its destination successfully and pinged the building. The best way is to fix it yourself by improving the roads.īridges are great to provide transportation across the river. It only makes your mini-cars more congested and unable to reach its destination and back to the house. Traffic Lights are mean to ease congestions, but currently an almost-useless mechanic. They are extremely important late game as mini-cars begin to spawn at random locations. Motor highways are a great way to provide your mini-cars with a faster means of travel, especially if you they are long-distance to its warehouse. The items may include 25 additional roads, Motor Highway. Roads are a important resource, so you want to build up your roads wisely or you will find yourself with a bunch of mini-cars unable to reach its destination.Įvery Sunday, you are given additional resources 25 extra roads and an option to choose between two items. You start the game with two resources 25 roads and a bridge. Certain maps may have muitple rivers or bigger land area, each requiring a different strategy. Each map has its own size and layer of difficulty. There are 6 different maps LA, Bejing, Tokyo, Dar es Salaam, Moscow, and Munich. If a mini-car is unable to reach its destination fast enough to ping the building, you lose.
As each day passes, buildings of different colors will randomly spawn on the map and it is your job to manage the flow of traffic.
Each garage has two mini-cars and will spawn randomly on the map, including other different color buildings and mini-cars.įor example, If a mini-car is “Red”, each car will attempt to reach the “Red” destination. The mini-car job is to reach its destination, ping the warehouse and drive back to its mini-garage. This beautiful game will have your mind-bending as you draw roads and bridges in an attempt to keep traffic smooth and congestion at bay.Įach mini-car has its own color, mini-garage, and designated Warehouse – corresponding with its own color.
Mini Motorways is an addicting puzzle game, where you build up your metropolis city by managing its roads and intersections as cars pass through to its destination.
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