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#57: Mini Metro

I don't know what to say. I was always a fan of the old old sim games- SimAnt, SimTower, SimLife, SimTown. Surprisingly, I could never get that excited about their real breakout series, SimCity. The Sims was great and signaled the end of the old style of games, but that's a whole other can of worms.

To my point- these games were fun because you could work to set up a system and then sit back and watch as it puttered around of its own volition. They may have been more toys than games in some instances and difficulties, but toys are neat, too.

Mini Metro taps into that joy- while it's technically a puzzle game, you're ultimately setting up connections between train/bus/whatever stations, assigning trains/buses/whatevers to those connections, and watching them scramble to get all of the citizens where they needed to go. It is exactly that sensation of setting up elevator networks in SimTower, and watching the little people go from black, to yellow, to orange, to red as they got progressively more annoyed until they all crammed into the express elevator and head to floor 40.

It helps that the design is minimal, the colors are bright, and everything hums to a beat and is non-distracting. This toy is fun!
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