Mini Metro
GameBy Dinosaur Polo Club
4 documents in the library are about Mini Metro, from writers such as Extra Credits, Gamecity Hamburg and Game Developers Conference. Each has a summary and key insights with the page they come from.
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On Steam
Steam estimates as of 9 Oct 2026. Revenue is premium revenue on Steam only: game sales, without DLC.
- Revenue to date
- $6.0M
- Units sold
- 916K
- Last 12 months
- $157K
- 24K units
- Price
- $9.99
- Positive reviews
- 96%
- of 17K reviews
- Peak players
- 2,084
- at the same time
- Followers
- 54K
- Average playtime
- 8 h
| Year | Share of the best year | Revenue | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $364K | 53K | |
| 2020 | $321K | 47K | |
| 2021 | $314K | 49K | |
| 2022 | $251K | 37K | |
| 2023 | $233K | 35K | |
| 2024 | $183K | 26K | |
| 2025 | $178K | 26K | |
| 2026 so far | $120K | 17K |
On Steam since Aug 5, 2014 · Developer Dinosaur Polo ClubSteam store page
Documents about Mini Metro
10 Best Paid Mobile Games with No Ads
The primary purpose of this analysis is to curate a selection of high-quality, premium mobile games that offer a complete user experience without the intrusion of advertisements, timers, or aggressive monetization tactics.
- Premium mobile games prioritize gameplay quality by eliminating advertisements, timers, and aggressive monetization tactics common in free-to-play models.
- The ten recommended titles—Dead Cells, Stardew Valley, Slay the Spire, Bloons TD 6, Pocket City 2, Monument Valley, The Room, Mini Metro, Terraria, and Minecraft—span action, strategy, simulation, and puzzle genres.
- Upfront pricing for these high-quality titles typically ranges from $0.99 to $9.99, depending on regional availability and promotional pricing.
Mini Metro: When Less is More
The development of the user interface for the strategy game Mini Metro serves as a case study in how minimalist design choices can foster player discovery and engagement.
- Mini Metro achieved commercial success with 800,000 units sold and over three million dollars in gross revenue, maintaining a 96% positive rating on Steam.
- The design team prioritized minimalist UI by omitting complex HUDs, leaderboards, and meta-progression systems to focus entirely on the core gameplay loop of network optimization.
- Development spanned two years and involved extensive visual iteration, resulting in the creation of over 4,000 images and 112 preview videos.
Games You Might Not Have Tried: Winter 2015 - Find New Games - Extra Credits
This selection of video games highlights titles from late 2015 that offer unique design concepts, innovative mechanics, or compelling narratives that may have been overlooked by mainstream audiences.
- Undertale (2015) is highlighted for its innovative subversion of JRPG tropes, specifically through a combat system that allows for a pacifist playstyle.
- The Beginner’s Guide offers a unique narrative focus on the creative process, exploring themes of self-doubt and the psychological struggle for validation.
- The Black Watchmen demonstrates the effective integration of alternate reality game (ARG) mechanics to create an immersive, non-traditional gameplay experience.
Games Lift: 'consider it' Get the Green Light
The Games Lift Incubator, an initiative based in Hamburg, Germany, serves as a professional development platform for emerging game projects.
- The Hamburg-based Games Lift Incubator provides emerging game developers with workshops, industry mentoring, and financial grants to transition projects from conceptual ideas to market-ready demonstrations.
- Developers Timo Schneider and Kevin Westphal of 'consider it' successfully pivoted from enterprise software to game design by utilizing the incubator's resources.
- The project 'supernightshift' originated as a mobility-tracking application for the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems before being adapted into a strategy-based mobile game.