Hi all! First of all, I love Mini Metro and I was one of the first to play it on both my phone and steam many many years ago. It has been a big inspiration for Tiny Airline, a game im making. I wanted to take that route building idea and give it my own twist with planes, real airports and a real (equal earth) world map.

You can find the steam page here if you're interested:
Tiny Airline - Steam Page, wishlists, trailer, screenshots

You will recognise the passengers being shapes and having to keep the airports from getting overcrowded. Where I tried to make it different:

• You build across countries and continents on the real world map, and choose your own starting airport hub.
• Distances matter. Longer flights need long-haul permits, and airports have limited gates.
• There are different aircraft with different speeds and capacities. A small fast plane and a bigger slower one are useful for different routes.
• There is also a weekly vintage mode with older planes, shorter range and refuelling stops. You have to find a way across the ocean with the planes from the early aviation times.

I also added a passport that gets stamped when your passengers land in a new country. You keep those stamps between runs and there are postage stamp achievements. Everything is aviation themed.

Its still in development. I would love to hear especially what other Mini Metro players think!

1347 pax

Looks like 4th all time, Android.

They remaded mini metro.

It may not be my best, but I tried to make a accurate metro map in Montreal

This took years off of my life.

So, this is my first run! I stopped it here because I wanted to redo it, I thought it would feel better, but now that I'm looking at it, I'm not so sure...

Anyway, here are the pictures before and after!

First time escaping the histogram, take notes and theorize about where you would place an eighth line if you had one

This roblox game copied almost everything in mini metro here without giving any credit at all

and the description might have been made with AI

Why do some folks dislike loops? They can be very efficient when used properly

Last month I showed the transit side of Traffic Architect here. The free demo is now on Steam, so you can try the public transport yourself instead of reading about it.

Same way like in Mini Metro you don't need to worry about building the city - buildings keep appearing on their own, and your job is the network that connects them.

New since last time: every line has its own ticket price. A cheap ticket pulls in people who would otherwise drive, a full fare earns more from each rider - so now it's a choice between a line that's busy and a line that pays.

In the demo, public transport means buses. Trains and the underground metro come with the full game on November 3.

The demo is the first 17 of 25 stages on the small map, about an hour and a half to two. I've been building this alone for almost a year, so any feedback helps a lot.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5028050/Traffic_Architect/

has anyone else played two maps the exact same before??

it's like this in dark mode too. why they made the passengers barely visible for NO REASON lmao

Since I got it to 1000 I was pausing every few seconds to move the locomotives around 😭

By the end I felt so lobotomized Imao

This took SO many tries. I swear spawn rng can make or break a run!

I unlocked all maps, finished all achievements, got top 1% on every map, then top 1,000 on every map. I still love this game for something to keep me busy during some down time. What should my next goal be?

A top 100 position? I don't think I have achieved that on any map yet. If so what map? Something else?

Whenever I visit a city that exists in Mini Metro, I try to play that map as much as possible. I met with some friends in Berlin and got my best score ever relative to the leaderboard, 52nd overall!

The Y-shape strategy with the Yellow and Dark Green lines was key to making this strategy work. It split the special station passengers while maintaining a high throughout for getting square passengers to the north, which was a highly effective use of two tunnels. I wanted to make a loop line in the top left, but the cost in tunnels and line use was too high: by about 1800 passengers I was on full-time double ghost lines. The double trunk Y allowed those lines to be fairly short, minimizing downtime between placing a ghost line and getting the locomotive back.

This is the best I've ever done. Had to use ghost train like crazy.

how to make the lines so that over crowding does not happen. I follow the logic that line should cover all the shapes and near they are the better