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Mini Motorways

Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

PuzzleRoguelikeSimulationStrategy

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Would you recommend it?
Player score
9.6/10
24,384 reviews
Released
2021
Developer
Dinosaur Polo Club
Platforms
1 systems
Critics
87
Steam Deck
verified
Download
0.34 GB
We have not written a full review of this game.This is a catalogue entry: everything below comes from a source we can link, checked on a stated date. There is no score and no verdict here, because we only publish those after a reviewer has played the game and written it up properly. Our team may well have played this one. Until someone writes the review, we are not going to imply a verdict we have not put our name to.

What is Mini Motorways?

Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.

The record

Catalogue facts
First released19 July 2021
DeveloperDinosaur Polo Club
PublisherDinosaur Polo Club
PlatformsPC
GenresPuzzle, Roguelike, Simulation, Strategy
Languages14 supported

Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata , seeded TBA. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.

How was Mini Motorways received?

Players96%positive of 24,384 · Overwhelmingly Positive
Metacritic87critic aggregate, PC
Achievements165on Steam

Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.

Accessibility

1 declared features

Seeing

None declared

Hearing

None declared

Input

  • Full controller support

Difficulty

None declared

Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

What does it support?

Technical support
CapabilitySupport
Controllerfull support
Cloud savesYes
Cross-platform playNo
Mod supportNo official workshop
Online playSingle-player only
In-game purchasesNo
Steam Deckverified
Download size0.34 GB
Add-on contentNone listed
Age gateNone

Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.

What does it cost?

$9.99

Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.

Is Mini Motorways worth it?

96% of 24,384 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Overwhelmingly Positive. It costs $9.99 on Steam, and critics score it 87/100. About 328 people were playing at once when we last checked, so it is still active.

That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. We have not published our own review of this game.

Where Mini Motorways sits on the grid

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Is Mini Motorways still active? Players right now

328concurrent playerssnapshot, 19 October 2026
64%busier than this shareof the 1,496 games we track
21,432Steam reviews writtenevery one an owner

Mini Motorways has a small, niche following: 328 people were playing at once when we last read Steam on 19 October 2026. This is a snapshot, not a live counter, and it is a recent concurrent reading rather than an all-time record. For what is trending across the catalogue right now, see the pulse.

How many people own Mini Motorways

500,000–1.0MEstimated owners on Steama band, not a figure · SteamSpy
21,432Reviews writtena floor: every one owns it
328Playing at peak, recentlyconcurrent players

This is an estimate, not a sales figure, and the two are not interchangeable. SteamSpy samples public profiles and publishes a range; the range here spans a factor of 2.0, and that width is the honest part of it. We show both ends rather than a midpoint, because a midpoint would look like a measurement.

Steam only. Console and storefront sales are not counted, so a game that sold heavily elsewhere reads low here. Read on 19 October 2026. Where a publisher has announced a real unit figure, that appears separately and carries its source.

Estimated sales for Mini Motorways

These are estimates, not reported figures. Dinosaur Polo Club has not published unit sales for Mini Motorways, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.

732K–1.5MEstimated copies soldon Steam, lifetime
$2.4M–$9.6MEstimated player spendbefore Valve's cut
$1.7M–$6.8MEstimated to the publisherafter the 30% platform cut

How this was calculated

Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.

Sales estimate working
Reviews on Steam24,384
Sales per review30 to 60
List price$9.99
Assumed average selling price33% to 66% of list
SteamSpy owner estimate500K–1.0M, a different measure, see below

What this cannot tell you

Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.

The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.

The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.

Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.

If Dinosaur Polo Club publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.

Mini Motorways price & deals: is it on sale?

We have one reading so far: $9.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.

Latest Mini Motorways updates & patch notes

Pulled from Mini Motorways's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.

  1. Te Reo Māori is coming to Mini Motorways! · From the studio
  2. Our next stop - Istanbul, Türkiye! 📍 · From the studio
  3. New update coming next week! · From the studio
  4. Trains or Automobiles? Why not both? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ · From the studio
  5. You choose what city comes in 2026! · From the studio
  6. Mini Motorways Patch 1.19.2 · From the studio

What readers say about Mini Motorways

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Games like Mini Motorways

24 games overlap with Mini Motorways on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Mini Metro, Dorfromantik and Reus.

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Common questions about Mini Motorways

What platforms is Mini Motorways on?

Mini Motorways is available on PC. It first released in 2021.

How much does Mini Motorways cost?

$9.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.

Do players recommend Mini Motorways?

96% of 24,384 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Overwhelmingly Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.

What is the Metacritic score for Mini Motorways?

87 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.

Does Mini Motorways work on Steam Deck?

Valve rates Mini Motorways as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.

How big is the Mini Motorways download?

0.34 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.

Who made Mini Motorways?

Mini Motorways was developed by Dinosaur Polo Club and published by Dinosaur Polo Club.

Is Mini Motorways worth it in 2026?

96% of 24,384 Steam reviews are positive (Overwhelmingly Positive), and it is $9.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.

Is Mini Motorways dead?

No. About 328 people were in-game at once when we last read Steam's concurrent-player figure. Peak activity is higher; this is a recent snapshot, not the all-time peak.

Is Mini Motorways on sale?

Not at the moment. Mini Motorways is at its $9.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.