Mini Motorways

Mini Motorways is a sequencing strategy game that tasks you with planning a city road network. You lay down roads, traffic lights and motorways to ensure enough cars can get to the office buildings that pop up in your city as time passes. It's from the same developer as Mini Metro and slightly more complex, although it retains a simple aesthetic and moreish gameplay.

CONTENT RATING

PLATFORMS

Mac

iOS

Nintendo Switch

Apple TV

POSITIVE GAMEPLAY

Career Aspirations

Communication

Educational

Leadership

Musicality

Compromise

Efficiency

Route Planning

PLAY STYLE

Player vs Game World

You start with just a single colour-coded workplace and a few houses. Join them up and the traffic starts flowing. As things progress more houses and offices are added in different colours. Your simple road system now needs to cope with increased journeys that can crisscross inefficiently if you aren't careful. If things get too clogged up, the workers can't get through and it's game over.

There are three different ways to play: laid-back Endless Mode, Normal or the high-stakes Expert Mode. Endless mode offers a leisurely look at how to build a city transport system even after things have gone wrong. Normal mode sets you a challenge with periodic additions of roads, roundabouts, motorways and so on. Expert mode is similar but limits your ability to edit roads after you've set them in place.

The result is a game that looks beautiful and zen-like but soon brings you face-to-face with painful decisions and collapsing infrastructure.

GAMEPLAY TRAILER

Good to know

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Develop strategic thinking

Strategy games promote strategic thinking, problem-solving skills, and creativity. They encourage planning ahead and considering consequences. Develop these skills by asking children to talk through their choices and explain how they came to that decision.

Match skill level

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Improve life skills

These games often ask players to make choices like in business, such as managing money and resources. This can help improve these skills in real life.

Skill level age

Suggested by Family Gaming Database

11+

You need to be able to play the routes efficiently. But you also need to be able to cope with being forced to compromise your perfect system when a factory opens in the wrong place.