Mini Metro
BANGER · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.8h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader Model 4.0, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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?
What drives the score
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
July 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. It has been discounted 67 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dorfromantik ($13.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Mini Motorways ($9.99, scores 89).
$46.58 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $9.99.
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 616 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 1,582 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.
The drop-off
77% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
119 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
if you're looking for a easy to learn, hard to master, relaxing yet stressful game, or just a reason to hate circles with every fiber of your being, this is for you.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Mini Metro scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/287980/mini-metroThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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