Mini Motorways
BANGER · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Cost per hour
- $1.18/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 24,539
- Critics
- 87 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 6.8h
- To 100%
- 45.7h 6.7x the story
- Achievements
- 170
Price and sales
- Sales
- 37 on record
- Typical cut
- 15% off
- Steam low
- $6.99 August 2025
- Sale every
- 48d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 373 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 51% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
98% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
August 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $6.99. 37 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 15 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Mini Metro ($6.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Train Valley 2 ($14.99, scores 78).
More about Mini Motorways
Critics scored it 87. Players sit 9 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,176 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 995 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 1,650 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 46, 6.7 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Love playing this simplified civil engineering game while i am studying civil engineering at uni and sitting in a class.
1 more review, not recommended
Basically, a perfect time-waster that gives you nothing in terms of skill or game proficiency. Once you are over 1,200 passengers, the game starts spamming random facilities until RNG absolutely kills you off because you just physically cannot connect them to the existing grid. Unfortunately, the balance is non-existent, and the game is more like crisis management than a creativity sandbox or a way to relax. I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: Shader Model 4.0, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Mini Motorways scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1127500/mini-motorwaysReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 15, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.