Mini Motorways is a new Apple Arcade game where your goal is to facilitate deliveries of goods between homes and warehouses. The homes and warehouses appear on their own; all that you have to do is build the roads that go in between them.
You can build motorways, bridges, stop lights, intersections, and many other types of roads in order to move traffic along. Your goal is to get the highest score possible without letting any of your warehouses get overfilled.
Read on for some tips and tricks for Mini Motorways!
While you have no control over where the homes and warehouses show up, you do have control over where you put all of your streets. Also, wherever you put a street, a home or a warehouse will not spawn. So put streets wherever you don’t want a building to appear, so that you can group your warehouses and homes together more easily and control where they pop up.
Try to scope out your congestion spots early, because a congestion spot will just get worse over time. Relieve the traffic by building more roads or moving motorways around so that they relieve the congestion. This is especially useful for warehouses that tend to fill up faster than others.
Homes and warehouses are organized by color, as are the cars that deliver their goods. As much as possible, try to make it so that a street or roadway consists entirely of cars of one color. You may have to build a lot of bridges and motorways to make this happen, but it is definitely worth it.
You start with only a limited number of road tiles, but every week, you’ll get more road tiles so that you can build more roads at once. Until then, you’ll have to swap roads around in order to get the cargo where you want it to go, and to relieve congestion in problem areas.
Once you unlock bridges, take full advantage of them. Without bridges, water serves as a major barrier that will cut you off from building the most efficient route. With bridges, you can build over the water, shorten routes, and get high scores while relieving pressure at busy warehouses.
Traffic lights, on the other hand, are mostly useless. There are very few uses for them that aren’t better served by building roads in better shapes. They slow down cars and they can lead to bigger congestion, although if you have a lot of intersections, they can allow you to temporarily relieve high loads at a warehouse on one side of the intersection.