You can destroy and remap your system on the fly and the traffic intuitively learns the quickest route. It starts out purposely slow as you have a couple of houses and one warehouse to route them to but the pace escalates quickly from there.Įvery building is colour matched and soon you’ll need to route the cars with red destinations across the blue ones, while green and purple routes spaghetti their way around. Houses and warehouses are the two building types and they’ll be randomly placed on the map in all kinds of awkward and challenging positions. You are given limited road tiles to place down and you can choose the path that you see fit. Instead, you’ll be building the most efficient road system for cars to move from A to B and then back again (no Hobbits required). Sorry, everyone.Unlike most games featured here at Traxion, you won’t be driving. I’m just not certain that the denizens of this – thankfully, fictional, city would say the same. I am enjoying Mini Motorways a whole lot. Motorways set up to directly to serve clusters of houses and try to keep the strain from the main motorway have turned into general-purpose routes as the neighbourhoods have expanded, and because the houses in the game can’t be moved, there’s no room to add pressure-relieving roads or roundabouts. There are roundabouts to ease congestion on the busier junctions. Take a look at one of these early attempts: I’ve tried to keep the three different colours somewhat separate, with their own paths to work and home. Mini Motorways Credit: Dinosaur Polo Club It’s what I would want, and I’m the guy that built the whole thing. To commute in a city with me as a road planner is to embrace doom, and while the simple AI of the drivers in my city, in their adorable colour coded cars, doesn’t allow them to get out of their cars to riot across the city at how badly I’d set everything up, I can tell that’s what they want.
And for a time, things are swell.īut, eventually, I notice a fever, the city – if we’re sticking with this slightly pained body metaphor – can’t sweat out, and no amount of work will stop it, as the cars get backed up from end to end across my entire grid system, honking their horns impatiently. I try to build for this inevitable collapse from day one: I build big looping circuits that cars can drive around, with redundancies to ensure I can alter the layout later to keep things moving. Over time, the cities get busier and the roads reach ever further outwards, but eventually each of their roads gets clogged-up by beeping traffic, and no amount of remedial roadwork will fix it. READ MORE: Tim Schafer on his game writing philosophy: “always punch up, never punch down”.The network of roads is the circulatory system of the city, motorways forming the arteries while roads are the individual veins, crisscrossing about the place and getting people to their destination. The clean aesthetic and simplicity-above-all approach will make it look immediately familiar to anyone that has played Mini Metro, and it makes your job – getting everyone to work and then home on time – look simple. Mini Motorways is the keenly awaited sequel to Mini Metro that tasks you with helping people get from their little colour-coded houses, to their little colour-coded workplaces using roads, roundabouts, traffic lights, bridges, tunnels and eventually – if you’re lucky – even the titular motorways themselves.
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