MiniTrans

This is really disappointing. On the surface, this looks like a laid-back puzzle game in the style of Mini Metro, but in practice it plays like a sandbox or a desktop toy right up until a screen pops up to say you've lost. As far as I can tell, what you're supposed to do in Level mode is put down city tiles and connect them with roads or train lines to make a certain amount of money before time runs out, but there's no explanation of what arrangement of tiles will actually make any money and no time to experiment before the end of the round. There's also Infinite mode which gives you a ton of money up front, and takes away the timer, so you can just watch your trains go back and forth with no actual objectives? Story mode and Free-draw mode are "in development", as are half the cities on the main menu. Sound settings are not preserved between launches of the game, and those are the only settings you get. A complete waste of time.

This game caught my eye because of it's looks - on the first glance, it seems like something similar to mini-metro or dorfromantik - the sort of chill causal puzzle game and I'm sure that's what the developer went for, but it's basically unplayable. Out of all the areas, only one seems to be unlocked and in that area only two modes - this is on a supposedly finished game ( spoilers it is not finished ). This game has many bugs - they are not necessarily gamebreaking, but they are annoying - for example, the settings, especially for volume get reset every time you close the game, so enjoy the music blaring into your headphones every time you open this, also the ,,save file'' pops up every time you restart or start a new game untill you say ,,no'' by which point it never pops up again untill you save another game - so if you say wanted to play on another save file and continue some other later, tough luck, you can't. Third and the most obvious problem is, the game rules are completel...

I've seen more finished games developed by middle schoolers with text editors.

What exactly is the goal of this game? I setup a city with the money I have, traffic moves between, I pay taxes and receive them but I still fail. I think it has potential but as-is I don't understand the goal. It really doesn't help that there's nothing on the internet or Youtube about it to help guide me thru. Still worth the gamble for $1.79 on sale though.

Game is unfinished. - And at this stage not worth a $1 of your time to play.. Not even a game at this point. Just mark spaces as a city and connect with transit to gain tax $ to build more.. But basic game mechanics are missing and not clear. Back in early 2022 the Dev promised to have English version out by end of 2022. ((Even though the amount of text that needs to be added at this point is about 100 words - basically pop-up error comments saying "Ports must be built in water next to city" - and "your city's population is too small for an airport")) But even in Infinite mode where you start with more money then you'll ever need - and can build 5 plus cities with roads, airports, docks, and railways - you still find your self lacking in entertainment for it does not seem to matter what you build or how you assemble it. No matter what you do - it does not seem to clearly give the player a sense of progression or growth... The whole game in it's current stage is dead in ...

You can't understand what the game wants from you, or how to play it