I appreciate how much trust Mini Metro has in me. It’s supremely confident in my ability to translate its clean, satisfying world of shapes and lines into something approaching a functional transit system. I’m delighted to report that trust was entirely misplaced. My first run ends swiftly with a crush of angry passengers spilling off the platform. And the fact I’m this embarrassed to have made the triangles angry is a measure of how compelling Mini Metro is in spite of its limited toolset. And similar to how the game makes me feel I’ve lied on my TFL job application, don’t believe anyone who tells you this is ‘relaxing’. For me, it’s a failure simulator dressed up as a Tube map.
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