I played for a very short time and this is hopefully going to be superb. Hopefully a tutorial might be added. Will play more later and attempt to figure it out w lines and passengers...
First game lost within 3 minutes; then figuring out the rules thru trial-and-error. Working thru the second game now. Fun! (iPad Mini 2 with latest production iOS)
Had never heard of this, but after reading the Steam reviews I thought I'd give it a try. My first city after the tutorial ended in 44 days and 880 passengers. Dove straight back in. Been playing for a couple of hours and I'd say this is *the* city building / management game on iOS I've been dreaming of for years. Ever since my first iPhone in '08 I've been perpetually disappointed with everything in this genre on mobile. But this nails it IMO. Minimalistic while offering plenty of depth, randomly generated for replayability and excellent controls. I like being able to pause and really think which item to lay or reroute to compensate for changes, sometimes completely redoing a core part of the network. Pausing often and zooming in to carefully reroute when the map gets busy makes a huge difference. There's also a night mode which I switched on right away. This is the management game that finally nails it IMO and offers the sort of replayability I've been looking for. 10/10.
Randomly generated ?! I didn't know that j thought the levels were going to be the same every time, ok that's the nail in the coffin I'm buying it now !
Wow, i waited morethan a year for the ios version. And the best thing is, i can play it on the iphone display with the same amount of fun like on the pc. Good work.
The terrain is fixed, so impediments like rivers are in the same place, but the city growth (new station type and locations) are randomly generated. Also to expand on my little review above, what I really want in these types of games is the room to optimise. Probably above all else, this is a game about optimisation. If you enjoy making a system efficient as possible while being different (enough) in each playthrough than I recommend it. I think I'm going to try the hardmode now which doesn't let you reroute.
For anyone wondering, yes it saves its current state when it leaves memory. A rarity in a real-time game such as this.
I've been looking for another game that might rival Threes for something that i'll play over and over again and I think I've just found it!
I'll buy this on general principle, but I think I've already played it out on Steam. It takes a lot to get me to play a game on my desktop these days, but Mini Metro was so addictive that I did nothing else for a couple of days. So you've been warned... I played Subway Scramble back in the day (yes, I think it was Gamelab), and it's not really like that though it's got some similarities.
Going to have to rate this 5 stars for the sheer elegance and replayability. The UI is lovely and the way the games play out is fascinating and utterly hypnotic. If travelling on the Tube in London was this relaxing I'd be a happy man Just beautiful.
Yes... you can also do that while in real time, slow or fast . Took me a few games to work out how to decouple a station correctly in some cases where multiple lines cross, or the game kept wanting to add a new line. (select correct tube line next to station, move finger to station, wait for pulse light on station, move line off station) Stunning game
What a lovely thing; can't see it not being in my devices any time soon. Really is crying out for a zen mode. Perhaps some way of a station being scored based on how many passengers are being turned away so you could see where your network needs to be reorganised for greater efficiency. How that could be represented I'm not sure, however.
Passengers not getting on sometimes? I rated this 5 stars, it's worth it. Both sound and graphics remind me of rymdkapsel Gameplay is a happy middle between trainyard and rymdkapsel
It is a great feature, especially for somebody who does not like real-time game very much. In normal mode, you can take time and overview the whole plan and rearrange anything you see fit.
