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Mini Motorways

Dinosaur Polo Club

Steam artwork — Mini Motorways
Quick read

Mini Motorways is a traffic puzzle that ends when the city clogs. A colour wants a road, then another colour, then the river you already spent.

What kind of game is it?

Short management runs on a map of houses and shops. You draw roads, you place a motorway, you watch a jam become the fail state. This is a city you lose rather than a dungeon you clear, and the next sitting is a new layout.

Who is it for?

For players who want roads they redraw because the traffic already changed.

How it plays
Loop
Running a colony
Sessions
Short sessions
Progression
Runs that reset
Players
Single-player
Structure
Systemic
Tone
Cozy · Accessible

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

  • Progression35

    Estimate

  • Social18

    Estimate

Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Aug 2026.

Release
released

2021-07-20

Review score
96.3%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count
24,327

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Store price
€8.19

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Languages
14
Demo
No
Early Access
No
Players
Single-player

How many people play Mini Motorways?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies
610k – 1.3M

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players
9,914

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026
353

Peak that month: 531.

Median playtime
18.5 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 10–41.4 h. 4% under 2 h.

Players over time

Sept 2023: 404 average, 625 peakOct 2023: 379 average, 555 peakNov 2023: 399 average, 631 peakDec 2023: 424 average, 662 peakJan 2024: 388 average, 695 peakFeb 2024: 336 average, 523 peakMar 2024: 450 average, 958 peakApr 2024: 380 average, 583 peakMay 2024: 337 average, 475 peakJun 2024: 406 average, 660 peakJul 2024: 471 average, 773 peakAug 2024: 429 average, 665 peakSept 2024: 397 average, 650 peakOct 2024: 342 average, 506 peakNov 2024: 339 average, 506 peakDec 2024: 540 average, 918 peakJan 2025: 481 average, 837 peakFeb 2025: 383 average, 592 peakMar 2025: 420 average, 695 peakApr 2025: 431 average, 704 peakMay 2025: 386 average, 644 peakJun 2025: 616 average, 1,567 peakJul 2025: 524 average, 912 peakAug 2025: 485 average, 1,197 peakSept 2025: 532 average, 1,120 peakOct 2025: 456 average, 740 peakNov 2025: 455 average, 714 peakDec 2025: 464 average, 666 peakJan 2026: 484 average, 720 peakFeb 2026: 430 average, 663 peakMar 2026: 405 average, 653 peakApr 2026: 348 average, 529 peakMay 2026: 341 average, 521 peakJun 2026: 512 average, 890 peakJul 2026: 404 average, 638 peakAug 2026: 353 average, 531 peak
Sept 2023Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

  • English61%
  • Korean7%
  • Russian5%
  • Simplified Chinese4%
  • Spanish (Spain)4%
  • German3%

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

A run is a city. Mini Metro is the cousin; Factorio is the distant factory that never wants you to fold the map. The pleasure is a colour you failed to connect before the houses multiplied.

Core mechanics

Related games

Nearby games. Not always a direct substitute.

Genre / subgenre

Steam genre: management.

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