Mini Metro

Enormous value for the price. Deceptively simple game that rewards deeper strategy. Beautifully designed, and I love that the maps are all real places. Dailies, scoreboards, challenges, and various play modes keep things fresh. Controls can be a bit finicky but that is somewhat unavoidable on a mobile interface, I think they've made it work as best they can. I hope more maps continue to be added & agree more stats would be great, but it's already the best mobile game I've ever played so. :)

I used to like this a lot, but the car AI seemed to change a few months ago, doing things like picking up six triangles that are four stops away instead of the squares headed to the next stop, even when an empty train on another line would get those triangles to their stop on its line quicker, and then it picks up the squares that are six stops away. Updates since have only made it worse.

5 stars for style, 3 stars for gameplay. Visuals are perfection. The generative soundtrack is wonderfully creative, when it isn't stuck on a dissonant chord. Early and mid game is fun, but once you get deep enough into a game, the only way to really improve your score is by pausing and moving trains to full stations manually, which undermines the fun of designing a good system. Overall enjoyable for a few weeks, but the game is generally less fun the better you get