Mini Motorways

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%2021

$9.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago

The verdict

A minimalist, addictive road-planning puzzler that starts calm and turns frantic. Skip it if random spawns frustrate you or you want a realistic city sim.

Great for

Players who want short chill-then-chaotic puzzle sessions to play alongside podcasts or shows

Main risk

Random building spawns end runs and the loop gets repetitive, so it can feel stressful, not relaxing

What players love

Relaxing, good to play alongside other things

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“The best game to listen to podcasts with.”
Steam review · 83.1 h played ↗

“Wonderfully relaxing. I turn this game on and play gently while watching tv in the evenings”
Steam review · 85.5 h played ↗

“Sometimes you want to put a video on in the background and just poke at something that doesn't need much attention or concentration.”
Steam review · translated · 44.9 h played ↗

Addictive, easy to learn but hard to master

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“easy to learn, very hard to master. absolutely worth the price.”
Steam review · 15.8 h played ↗

“Simplistic graphics and simple premise, but not a simple game.”
Steam review · 13.8 h played ↗

“It's so addictive, and I don't understand why.”
Steam review · translated · 5.8 h played ↗

Huge replayability with daily challenges and new maps

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“Still being updated with new maps. Daily and weekly challenges + map challenges and hard mode mean you can play each map hundreds of times”
Steam review · 318.4 h played ↗

“This game has getting constant free updates for the past six years.”
Steam review · 58.1 h played ↗

Fun frustration as traffic spirals into chaos

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“every map starts with you thinking you are in control and it ends in complete chaos and i love it”
Steam review · 34.6 h played ↗

“Do you love getting mad at traffic? Like really mad?”
Steam review · 13.7 h played ↗

Clean minimalist visuals and soundtrack

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“Visual & audio design are on point and incredibly satisfying!!”
Steam review · 6.4 h played ↗

“An example of how to make a masterpiece with minimalism.”
Steam review · translated · 68.3 h played ↗

Great for short sessions and quick breaks

Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews

“Perfect if you want something short for a quick game in a break or an evening before bed”
Steam review · 5.8 h played ↗

“Fun to play on the Steam Deck when you only have a few minutes.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

What players complain about

Too much RNG in spawns ends runs

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“houses and destinations spawning on opposite sides of the map, or on islands, or with mountains and rivers in the way”
Steam review · 24.2 h played ↗

“At the end of the day, it's clear that no amount of strategy or tactics will get you past the RND.”
Steam review · 7.7 h played ↗

“Idiotic generation of shopping centers and houses.”
Steam review · translated · 6.8 h played ↗

Repetitive with shallow depth

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“The mechanic is literally the same on every single map”
Steam review · 24.4 h played ↗

“The game is great, but it gets boring very quickly.”
Steam review · translated · 4.3 h played ↗

Stressful rather than relaxing

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews

“This is the most stressful 'relaxing' game in the world”
Steam review · 18.3 h played ↗

“After not even 5 minutes, I'm basically sweating trying to keep track of everything.”
Steam review · 35.1 h played ↗

Cheesing spawns by blocking tiles with roads

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“all the high scores come from "cheating" the AI by placing unconnected roads all over the map to prevent buildings from spawning in undesirable locations”
Steam review · 13.8 h played ↗

Best strategy is segregating colors, not a real network

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews

“you must avoid intersections, roundabouts, etc, at all costs, because it's much more optimal, and plausible, to have a one-road system”
Steam review · 10.3 h played ↗

“This is the kind of game that gets less enjoyable the better you understand it.”
Steam review · 20 h played ↗

Slow road removal and no undo for accidental deletes

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews

“I've lost multiple +2000 trip games games due to accidentally right clicking a motorway, and not being able to place it back in time.”
Steam review · 10.1 h played ↗

“you can't undo (fine while time runs, but while paused???!!!)”
Steam review · translated · 8.3 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 7 SP1+

Processor2 GHz or faster processor

GraphicsShader Model 4.0

Storage350 MB available space

OSWindows 7 SP1+

Processor2 GHz or faster processor

GraphicsShader Model 4.0

Storage350 MB available space

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