Games like Mini Motorways
If you like Mini Motorways (puzzle, strategy and minimalist), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Mini Metro
- In common: short sessions and thinking
When you have a short while and feel like thinking a little: each game lasts between 10 and 20 minutes.
ISLANDERS
- In common: short sessions and a relaxed pace
For a short, calm session with simple decisions: each island is done in a few minutes.
Two Point Hospital
- In common: a relaxed pace and building
- Difference: longer sessions
When you want to manage something without real stress and with a laugh: each hospital plays in comfortable sessions.
Game Dev Tycoon
- In common: short sessions and a relaxed pace
- Difference: more progression
When you want a simple tycoon game for one or two afternoons, where every game you release is a small challenge.
Dorfromantik
- In common: short sessions and a relaxed pace
Ideal for 20-40 minutes of calm: each game builds a beautiful landscape and you always want one more tile.
Cities: Skylines
- In common: a relaxed pace and building
- Difference: longer sessions
When you want to build something big at a relaxed pace. Watching your city grow session after session keeps you hooked for weeks.
Luck be a Landlord
- In common: short sessions and a relaxed pace
When you want to think a little without effort: every spin is a small pleasure and a run lasts under an hour.
Against the Storm
- In common: thinking and building
- Difference: longer sessions
When you want to build and manage without committing to a weeks-long game: each settlement is one session.
shapez
- In common: thinking and a relaxed pace
- Difference: longer sessions
When you want to optimise without pressure: you can leave it and pick it up whenever you like without losing anything.
Stacklands
- In common: short sessions and management
- Difference: more exploring
When you want a light strategy game where you keep discovering new combinations.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Mini Motorways
From the makers of Mini Metro: this time you design the roads of a city that keeps on growing. You connect houses to destinations of the same colour and manage motorways and roundabouts before the traffic grinds to a halt.
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