Mini Metro
BANGER · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.99. Typically $4.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourA
- $1.21/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 16,805
- Critics
- 77 players 19 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.8h
- To 100%
- 43.9h 7.6x the story
- Achievements
- 73
Price and sales
- Sales
- 69 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 July 2021
- Sale every
- 48d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 128 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
July 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. It has been discounted 69 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Train Valley 2 ($14.99, scores 78) and Mini Motorways ($7.99, scores 89), are both worse buys on this math.
$46.55 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Mini Metro
Critics scored it 77. Players sit 19 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 620 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 1,585 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.8 hours. Doing everything runs 44, 7.6 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
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
A very straight forward management game. When everything's working smoothly, it does scratch that itch! Easy to learn, fun to experiment, though sometimes you do get screwed over by rng. If you don't get too serious with it, Mini Metro makes for a relaxing time.
2 more reviews
Similar to Mini Motorways, Mini Metro relies on the player to ensure that their mini trains pick up the passengers at each station. You do this by dragging a line across stations and by placing a locomotive. The stations are various shapes (circle, square, triangle, etc) and you want to create a network where your passengers (also in the shapes of the stations where they want to go) are connected - the game only...
Pretty simple multi-tasking game, nothing incredible but a fine enough way to spend your time. Pretty uninspiring in both the audio and visual departments but that was probably intended. I like it enough, but don't see myself revisiting it for a while. 5/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader Model 4.0, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Mini Metro scores 96/100 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/287980/mini-metroReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.