Mini Metro

This is overall an excellent game, a simple (but by no means easy) puzzle game. You start building a metro network on a very small map, over time the map will grow and you'll be granted access to more lines, extra carriages and extra trains. The difficulty ramps up very quickly and it doesn't take very long at all to lose or win a game, making it well suited for short play sessions. Yet I don't see myself playing this a lot. For one thing the control scheme is kind of odd. When I want to remove a line from a station I have to pull next to it on the desired line, move the cursor over the station and drag the line away from the station. This process isn't very well explained and I for one had my rails running all over the place before I mastered it. The game's guesses for how you want your lines are kind of odd and there are many times where for example I don't want a tunnel (maybe even two!) but the game forces me to use one anyway due to how the lines are drawn. This in fact made me fail one of the missions at one point where I was supposed to use no more than one tunnel, but had an unused tunnel for a few seconds due to how the game guessed I wanted to build. Finally, the goals of the game aren't very clear at all. To see the goals and what goals you have completed you need to go into a separate window from the mission selection screen. There you can see the goals for the current level and a little tick saying if you've made it. There is no indication when fulfilling or failing a goal while in the mission, and I couldn't even find a way to list them without going back to the mission selection screen. This last reason, the goals, is probably the main reason I won't play this game a lot since missions is really what motivates me to do puzzles like this at all.

This game cought my eye by its simple yet refined style. And that is how the game is in its totality. It gameplay, interface etc. are all simple yet very effective and well balanced and informative, yet don't feel void. A real marvel that finds its place in my shelve next to other new simple but fun small games like Dorfromantik one can play in between.

Minimetro is the perfect mix of minimalistic design and gameplay that both manages to challenge the players with creative thinking and organizing capabilities in order to maximize scores or provide a 10 minutes distraction just long to fill whenever dead moment you have in your life ( wow, that came out grim). Nevertheless, its importance in the video game indie industry is not to be underestimated as the game provides both casual gameplay or a more ''hardcore'' approach while retain a minimalistic design and features. A true testament that sometimes the simple solution is better than a complicated one.

TL:DR awesome - 88/100 (on a scale where zero is an option). Hypnotic little time wasting puzzle/management game. Don't be surprised to check the time and find an hour passed when you decided to play one game - oh - go on then - just one more. Starts simply enough but descends into madness as more and more stations spawn. One comment though: a map can be highly RNG dependent, as the stations spawn randomly as do the choice of another locomotive/carriage/tunnel etc each Sunday. Also if you zone out or miss a station overfilling and used the restart button, the map restarts, yes, but the stations aren't the same placement as the last try. Dollar an hour entertainment so far. Probably get to 50 cents before I've had my fill.

Nice little game. Highly reccomend for puzzle solvers and visual learners. A lot of love was put in this game and you can tell.