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Mini Motorways Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Game addiction is not something I am very familiar with: as a reviewer, I can’t afford to be drawn into one game for weeks on end. And yet, with Mini Motorways, I find myself unable to put it down. Yes, it seems that Dinosaur Polo Club has done it again. That’s where I have to remind you that Mini Motorways is not a new game. In fact, it’s been available on Apple Arcade ever since September 2019, and that’s when I first tried it. But, being a stout critic of subscription models, I stopped playing as soon as my freebie stopped working. I was sad, but I moved on — there are always new games to be played. And so I waited, cursing Apple for not allowing me to buy the game the old-fashioned way. I had to wait a few years, but it’s finally here. And while the iPad is a perfect way of experiencing Mini Motorways, I was not averse to trying it on Nintendo Switch. If you have played Mini Metro, the idea is similar: you have a colourful interpretation of a transport system, your task — to build a citywide network able to withstand the ever-growing number of passengers. But while Mini Metro was imitating real-life metro maps, Mini Motorways imitates Mini Metro. Yes, the idea isn’t as fresh, but the gameplay is as addictive as ever — maybe even more so. Every new game starts with a big building and a small garage. Connect the two, and the cars will start moving, transporting pins that represent people.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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Soon you’ll have other differently-coloured buildings, and the idea is that colours shouldn’t meet. They will, of course: Mini Motorways always puts houses and garages in the worst places possible, screwing your whole immaculately designed system. No matter how hard you try to make everything perfect, it’s going to crumble sooner or later. For me, who is quite bad at the game (journalists, right?), this moment usually happens when I have about 1000 pins. That is when the game becomes unreasonable, throwing everything at you in too short a time. You heard me right: it’s the game’s fault, not mine! The brilliance of Mini Motorways is that it reinvents the strategy genre, making the typically niche area of gaming accessible to all. It looks simple and offers extremely straightforward controls. This welcoming nature contrasts with most of the other alternatives. There’s more to Mini Motorways than simply connecting dots: every Sunday, you get to choose a set of new goodies, which matters a lot. Will you choose yet another bridge and 20 roads or risk with ten roads and a motorway? Motorways are extremely useful, acting as a kind of a bridge that goes both over water and buildings and other roads. It can be a lifesaver later in the game, but it can also leave you without means of connecting new buildings with roads. There are other items: tunnels that go through mountains, traffic lights that help avoid traffic jams (up to a point), and roundabouts that can free up busy intersections.

Draw roads in dynamic cities that grow and change – every game is unique!

Mini Motorways doesn’t offer much when it comes to content: there aren’t that many items to play with, and the amount of cities isn’t that impressive. But what is there is first-rate: maps are sufficiently different from each other (even compared to Mini Metro) and offer nice little touches. Like, in the Rio map, you can actually see the shadow of the famous Christ the Redeemer statue. Visually and audibly, it’s about the same package as Mini Metro. Thanks to new colour schemes, it looks better (I am angry at the lack of the true black mode for those lucky Switch OLED owners though), and it runs fine on Nintendo Switch, although I experienced a few crashes — thankfully, the auto-save feature helped. Soundtrack-wise it’s still the same thing: don’t expect actual music, as it’s more of a mix of various soundbites created with the help of Disasterpeace. It… works, as these abstract sounds can’t possibly get repetitive. You have to give it to Dinosaur Polo Club — their games are incredibly recognizable. It really is just that engaging. I’ll get that out of the way before digging into the nitty-gritty. If you played Mini Metro, the previous transport puzzler from Dinosaur Polo Club, then you probably know what to expect, and allow me to tell you that once again the developer delivers. With a title that strips away any shoe-horned attempt at narratives and any complex mechanics that take weeks to learn, what remains is an accessible and engaging experience. Everything a good puzzle game should be.Ridge Racer Unbounded

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The basic premise is similar to that of Mini Metro, in that you take on the role of a civil engineer to build connections between houses and institutions. The trick is, in that those who live in yellow houses need to go to yellow buildings, those who live in green houses need to go to green buildings, and so on, creating a gameplay loop that’s simple in execution, with plenty of room for scope. Progression through each level is marked by the number of completed trips through your city’s infrastructure, usually needing around 300 or 400 on each to unlock the next level, or 1,000 to unlock each map’s challenge mode. The challenge mode is similar to scenario modes you find in tycoon titles like RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, or Prison Architect, giving you extra resources, or including new obstacles like immovable trees, while you try to achieve a certain goal. This is all in addition to the weekly and daily challenges offered out by the development team, meaning you can trade-in your daily Wordle to instead take half an hour to re-jig the roads and highways of Wellington, Warsaw, and others. I will say though, that these challenge modes do live up to their name, and you’re better served getting your head around the primary mechanics, which are surprisingly deep, and unlocking new maps before putting yourself through the gauntlet. The overall design of Mini Motorways very much plays into the zen-like puzzler concept at the core of the game’s raison d’etre. As should be the case with a good puzzle game, the simple road, buildings, and cars (essentially all of your resources) that begin to litter the screen by the latter stage of a mission are all easily identifiable.

Unlock new maps and achievements as you achieve mastery.

Leaving only yourself to blame if you begin to feel overwhelmed in the latter stage of a mission. The cities you find in Mini Motorways are all cultural hubs or capitals, like L.A., Tokyo, or Beijing, but the payoff for including them is mixed. The positive is that it adds a niche element to each mission, teaching you a little about the geography of famous locations, as well as individualizing each challenge with either a need for bridges, tunnels, or highways. However, I feel like there could be a little more charm in the cities included, or some cultural nods to the more famous towns and cities rather than purely lending geography. I hate to break this to big geography fans, but it’s not the most popular interest, and I personally couldn’t tell apart a majority of the cities from Mini Motorways just from the bodies of water they hold. In terms of mechanics, and the gameplay loop I mentioned earlier, Mini Motorways really hits the nail on the head with its intelligent difficulty curve. While all levels start out as simple single-road solutions, by the time you’ve hit 500 trips on any particular map, the challenge starts to build, and precious resources like bridges, roundabouts, and especially highways, go from being nice customisation and organisation options to vital mechanics. It’s in this reliance on just a few reliable gimmicks, for lack of a better world, like roundabouts and highways to affect gameplay that Mini Motorways hearkens back to the early days of mobile puzzle gaming.Tribes of Midgard Switch NSP

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There’s no option to part with your pennies for a quick fix, like the reams of Candy Crush power-ups, putting a real emphasis on resource control that falls bang in line with Mini Motorway’s dictionary definition difficulty curve. The UI behind Mini Motorways is intelligent, with plenty of customisation and accessibility options, including night mode, a must-have for a game with so many bright tones. I do have one bone to pick with the menus and system mechanics though, you seemingly can only work on one map at a time. This can be frustrating when you’re having difficulties with a map, and fancy a pallet cleanser but don’t want to lose your progress, as you can only either keep on truckin’ or start a new in a fresh location. Fortunately, the design is such, so that, unlike transport tycoon games where you might spend an hour in one convoluted menu, you can easily complete 300 trips, potentially even the 1,000 needed to unlock challenge modes, within a single sixty-minute sitting. So even in the moments where I wasn’t keen to give up a slightly tricky 800+ trip run, I knew it would be easily achievable to get back to that state, it’s just that I’d prefer to be able to jump right back in. It’s said that even the best-laid plans often go awry, and that is fully evident in Mini Motorways. What starts as a pleasant city-planning simulation evolves into a frantic puzzle you must solve before time runs out. The stress of having your carefully planned city infrastructure crumble before your eyes is undeniable. However, it’s in that often-sudden transition from meditative to manic where Mini Motorways shines, offering players a unique take on both the puzzle and city-planning simulation genres.

Select different colour palettes on every map including colourblind and night modes.

It all starts with choosing a real-world city in which to build. Whether you want to contend with the L.A. River and Santa Monica Bay of Los Angeles or the mountains surrounding Mexico City, each map provides unique problems to solve. My favorite area, Wellington, combines myriad elements like a bay, harbor, and mountains to test your resource management. At its core, Mini Motorways is about connecting randomly spawned houses and destinations that progressively appear over the course of your run; the house colors correspond with the destinations the vehicles must reach. You’re given a set number of road tiles you can place, meaning you need to be efficient to ensure the roads you need are possible. Some of my favorite head-scratching moments came from redrawing the map on the fly once I realized my current plan wasn’t going to work; thankfully, you can pause the action to plan if things get too overwhelming. Each in-game week, you choose additional resources and tools to add to your inventory. You always receive more road tiles for the coming week, but Mini Motorways also gives you a choice between objects like roundabouts, traffic lights, bridges, tunnels, and motorways to help you alleviate traffic jams and reach new buildings. With each week lasting about two and a half minutes at normal speed (though I typically keep my speed on fast), new resources arrive in your inventory at a rapid pace. That’s a good thing because even the best runs are one poorly planned intersection away from failure.

I loved adding a stoplight at a busy intersection to improve the flow, while a perfectly placed cross-town motorway made all the difference between immediate failure and extending my run for a few more weeks. Roundabouts are perhaps the most effective tool for preventing game-ending jams, but placement limitations are sometimes frustrating with their space requirements. The goal of Mini Motorways is to keep your city operational even as the map slowly zooms out, and you have more real-world topography with which to contend. Each run starts pleasant and slow-paced, but as the map expands and your city grows, so too does the cadence at which houses and destinations spawn on the map. Despite being designed for a touchscreen or mouse, using a Switch Pro Controller is a surprisingly precise way to move the cursor around (especially since the control options are so customizable). Though, in moments of panic, the control scheme caused a few flubs. If controlling the cursor with the joystick bothers you, you can draw your roads on the touchscreen in handheld mode. I love how each on-map building requires equal attention as the playable area grows; if even one destination backs up and people are stranded for too long, it’s game over. While its quiet, easy moments are satisfying in their own way, I love when the action and difficulty ratchet up and I need to address the rapid-fire problems that emerge efficiently.

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With so much on the screen at that point in the run, it’s easy to lose track of new destinations or houses that pop up, but the minimalist user interface and art style lend themselves well to keeping track of the statuses of all your buildings. While I appreciate the real-world map systems Mini Motorways uses, it features less than half the number of maps as its predecessor, Mini Metro. Mini Motorways supplements these 14 maps with daily and weekly challenges, which take the mainline scenarios and add different modifiers (like bridges costing double the road tiles or starting your run with maxed out motorways in your inventory). However, these don’t meaningfully add to the game’s overall content, particularly when the rest of the feature set is similarly barebones. Have you ever been stuck in traffic and wished you could do something to fix it? In Mini Motorways, the city’s traffic problems are in your hands. From the makers of Mini Metro, Mini Motorways is a game about drawing the roads that drive a growing city. Build a road network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your city to keep the traffic flowing, and carefully manage upgrades to meet the changing demands. How long can you keep the cities of the world moving? Though it lacks content and features, Mini Motorways has consumed much of my gaming time since I downloaded it more than a week ago. The simple gameplay, clean interface, and satisfying difficulty ramp led me to say, “Just one more run,” several times a session before ultimately calling it quits.I Am The Hero Switch NSP

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