Each city has a different set of colors for coding its stations, as well as different challenges that will test your skills and your patience. You can also play specific cities in the Daily challenge where a city will go into the rotation and stick around until its time is up and a new city enters into play. To unlock new cities, you’ll need to reach a particular score threshold in a specific city or two.

If a station has square commuters and that line is not connected to a square station, then you’re in trouble.Īt first you can select to play in London, Paris, and New York City, but you can also unlock Berlin, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Osaka, Stockholm, Saint Petersburg, Montréal, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seoul, Washington, D.C., Singapore, Cairo, Istanbul, Shangai, Mumbai, and Auckland. Commuters will be shown as geometrical shapes, which certainly fits the game’s minimalist art style, and you should certainly pay attention to what share is traveling from each station because it is each commuter’s shape that will tell you to what shape of a station they want to travel to. You can also select to close some lines if you feel that you can set up your previously connected stations in a more efficient way. This is all part of the process, so you’ll learn and carry on with new confidence. These will certainly help you to keep your streak going strong… but you’ll eventually fail because your city grew up too fast or because you placed a locomotive at the wrong place at the wrong time, making your carefully designed line obsolete. If a line crosses a river, it will get a tunnel for the train to travel to and from that station.Īs you progress in the game you will unlock new things to add to your line, such as a new locomotive you can add to one of your current lines or to a new line, or a new car you can add to one of your locomotives You will also get more tunnels so that you can continue to connect lines over a river. Depending on how you connect each station you will start to create different colored lines, and depending on the color you’ll be able to see where a train is traveling to and from. Once you do this, a train, represented by a rectangle, will start to move between the available stations, and a few seconds later a new station will pop up, so you’ll need to connect that to your current layout.Įach of your stations can hold a few commuters, so you’ll need to design a good subway system to keep them all moving from station to station as fast as possible. You can do this either with the on-screen cursor when playing in Docked, Portable or Tabletop mode, or by using the touchscreen when playing on Portable or Tabletop mode. Eventually your network will fail! Stations will open too quickly and commuters will crowd the platforms.The game starts with a white screen where you are asked to drag a path from one station, marked with a circle, to another station, marked by a square.

The new assets you earn every week will help immensely - as long as they're used wisely. The demands on your network are ever-increasing! You'll be constantly redesigning your lines to maximize efficiency. The city is growing, more stations are opening, and commuters are appearing faster. Each station can only hold a handful of waiting commuters so your subway network will need to be well-designed to avoid delays.

Commuters travel along your lines to get around the city as fast as they can.

Your city starts with three stations.draw routes between these stations to connect them with subway lines. In Mini Metro, you take on the task of designing the subway layout for a rapidly expanding city.

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