Then the developers added their home town, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa, "the coolest little capital in the world".
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Arrival on Steam brought new cities - Dubai and Mexico City - as well as roundabouts, which after more than a year I am still getting to grips with, still staring into their whirling depths in the hope of understanding how to get the most from them. (It's not alone, incidentally - the same team is still updating its previous game, Mini Metro.) Mini Motorways grows, as slowly and steadily as one of its own doomed cities. But also, as the game leaps from one device to the next, its developers add things to the whole package.
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There are platform changes - you can play on PC and Switch now, which means you can draw paths with one button and delete with another instead of switching between edit and non-edit modes. The game my daughter now frets over is not quite the same game that I first played on Apple Arcade, when Apple Arcade was new. Except they aren't really miserable at all: they're energising! Transformative!Īnd coming back to Mini Motorways for State of the Game - not that I am ever, truly, away from Mini Motorways for very long - I see that the game itself has been transforming too. Your miseries queue here, and double back on themselves. Traffic jams ripple through the body of your city like a horrible kind of peristalsis. Every second you spend on one problem only means that the next problem is getting worse somewhere else. But when I play chess I can take my time with my terrible moves. Now I think about it, it's exactly the frown that chess masters do, delicate chin balanced on delicate fist as they study a refined landscape of total information. Studious frowning: a dense seminar with a new professor, a lengthy but intriguing sentence whose meaning you need to untangle.
But, really? Really, you play by frowning. You play by connecting businesses of a certain colour to houses of the same colour, without causing traffic jams and snarl ups as houses and businesses of different colours start to appear too. This is a city-building puzzler that may also be one of the most aesthetically refined games ever made: flat colour and pleasing abstractions of the modern world, its concrete and metal, its curtain-walling and internal combustion. Monetisation: Included with Apple Arcade subscription, or £7.19 on Steam, £11.99 Switch.Platform: iOS (Apple Arcade), PC and Switch.It's fun to come downstairs and see her positioned before the TV, rigid and serious, frowning at a seemingly intractable junction or off-ramp, before pouncing on the solution, her mind disappearing back into the emerging cityscape as she goes. It's delightful stuff, and it makes me see her afresh. My daughter's recently started playing Mini Motorways.
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