The Australian edition of Kotaku is focused on taking all this fantastic news and crafting it into a tasty treat for all you Aussies and Kiwis. Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. Mini Motorways is out now on Steam, and is also coming to Nintendo Switch in 2022. The game’s challenges never feel unfair though, or stressful, they’re just there in the way that you know this is a game that gets slightly harder the longer you play it, and that there will inevitably become a point where this all becomes too much and it’s game over, no matter how well your planning and construction speed has gone.Īnd when it does, that’s cool, you can just slide over to a different city - there are loads to choose from, each with regional colour palettes and a rough approximation of their environment - and try it all over again. There’s still pressure to be felt here, as every game of Mini Motorways is about building the right roads fast enough to meet increasing demand - if you don’t, it’s game over - but every time I’ve failed I’ve simply said ‘ah, oh well, that was lovely, let’s do that again”. Here, though, the reality of what’s being simulated is stripped away to the point where huge intersections bristling with traffic are represented by beautifully minimal traffic lights, and motorways are brought to life simply by dragging them across a map. Anyone who has lived in a car-driven city will know that major motorway construction is hell on Earth, and anyone who has ever had to drive to work knows that being stuck in traffic is also hell on Earth, just in a smaller place. The theme is the excuse to hit us with what this series does best: elegantly escalating puzzle challenges that in most circumstances would quickly become infuriating were they not draped in the most chill visuals and interface imaginable. Sure, there are cursory nods to how roads work, but it takes around four seconds playing this to know that this isn’t a serious simulation of urban planning. Just like Mini Metro wasn’t really about trains, Mini Motorways isn’t really about cars either.

Gita wrote about the game back in 2019 when she played it on the phone, and while everything she said about how terrible cars are is still very much true, I’m still in love with this game for most of the same reasons I fell in love with Mini Metro. The sequel of sorts to Mini Metro, a game I am aghast to find is now seven years old, Mini Motorways first came out in 2019 on Apple’s subscription service, but has now also dropped on Steam, meaning I’m getting to play it and enjoying every second of it. I wrote about one of these last month, Lego: Builder’s Journey, and today I’m writing about another one, Mini Motorways.

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