Mini Motorways 2019

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Dinosaur Polo Club's puzzle strategy game from New Zealand, a follow up to their 2015 Mini Metro, released on Apple Arcade in 2019 and later on Windows, Mac and Nintendo Switch. You draw roads to link houses, which hold cars, to buildings of the same color, and new houses and buildings appear at random as the game goes on. Cars collect the pins on each building, and your score is the number of pins collected. When too many pile up on one building a timer starts, and when it fills the game is over. After each in game week you pick one of two upgrades, and one is always a special tool. These include bridges, tunnels, traffic lights, roundabouts and a motorway that runs straight from one point to another. New houses keep arriving, so a network that works now has to leave room for the next one, and planning ahead is still the whole skill.