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Mini City

Draw loops. Move a little city. A minimalist transit puzzle: houses fill with riders who want an office, a market or a park, and you drag bus routes across a pixel valley to get them there. Calm to start, frantic to master.

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The Mini City title screen: Draw loops. Move a little city., a preview valley under the mountain mascot, and Play, Daily and Zen buttons
Mini City's Twin Lakes valley at night, with lit windows and routes running between two lakes under the mountain mascot

In the valley

What you can do

  • Draw a route in one drag

    Press on empty ground or a house and drag from cell to cell. Finish where you started to close a loop, which adds a free bus running the other way round.

  • Ride the daily tides

    Mornings want offices, middays markets and evenings parks. Night is the breather: the board turns dusk blue, windows light up and crickets play.

  • Pick a weekly gift

    Every four-day week brings 12 more track and a choice of two gifts: a new loop, an extra bus, bridges, a cart, an express, 45 more track or bigger stations.

  • Keep the city moving

    When a house holds more than five riders, an orange ring starts to fill; let it close and it's gridlock. Every new building is forecast 8 seconds ahead, and you can pause time and keep drawing.

  • Unlock four valleys

    Meadow, River Bend, Twin Lakes and Summit Pass each unlock with a score in the one before. Seasons turn every three days, and winter snow slows the buses.

  • Hear the network sing

    Every delivered rider plays a note on the beat, so a healthy city sounds like music. Play Classic, the same Daily Valley as everyone else, or endless Zen.

Screenshots

Mini City in the browser on a summer midday: the day and score along the top, routes across the valley, a route panel and the tool bar below
Summer, day 6 in the browser demo. The selected route's panel shows its length and buses.
The week 2 gift card: 12 more track arrived, pick Bridges ×3 or Bigger stations
Week 2: bridges, or bigger stations?
Summit Pass in winter: snow lies over the upper valley and a cold stream, with routes crossing it
Summit Pass, where winters run long.
The Gridlock results card: 296 riders delivered in 9 days with 3 routes, a new best, new stamps and Twin Lakes unlocked
Gridlock ends the run, and the results card counts what you delivered and unlocked.

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Try the demo in your browser

The demo is Mini City's Defold prototype: the same rules, art, sounds and balance numbers as the full game, in one page with no install. Drag to draw, right-drag to erase, press Space to pause and keep drawing, Z to undo and Esc for the menu. On phones and tablets, drag to draw.

Play Mini City

Mini City is a Toyling game for iOS, Android and Steam (macOS and Windows), built in Unity. The browser demo is its Defold prototype, which leaves out some of the Unity game's polish, such as the colour-blind palette, gamepad support and platform achievements. Its music and sound effects are synthesized by the game's own code.