The clean animations and procedural audio make for an addicting experience.
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Mini Metro is a great example of how powerful a simple visual representation can be.
New stations are added, the city grows, you lay new lines.
You lose when a station gets overcrowded with passengers.
The obvious analogy is transit planning.
Here we can see how lines with repeated circles quickly get crowded with waiting passengers:
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZ9ukpIU8AAlDIu.jpg)
Identify, Exploit, Subordinate to, Elevate, Repeat
We can use this process in Mini Metro as a decent playing strategy.
Exploit: Shorten the line to allow the locomotive to cycle through stations faster.
Repeat: As your city grows, the constraint moves!
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZ9vM4zVMAAFl3M.jpg)
Video games can be a huge time-sink, but here we've stumbled on a great game that also helped us learn some useful concepts.
You can learn more about it here: dinopoloclub.com/minimetro/
I'm not associated or sponsored, I just think it's a neat game.