Mini Motorways
Last updated: 2026-01-11
- Highly addictive and replayable gameplay experience
- Relaxing yet engaging minimalist road-building mechanics
- Unique challenges with strategic depth in simplicity
- Over-reliance on RNG disrupts gameplay flow
- Unintuitive road and traffic tools frustrate players
- Traffic and pathfinding issues cause frustration
Emotions
Frustration18%Satisfaction16%Enjoyment13%Relaxation7%Addiction5%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 23,137
- Positive
- 22,27196.3%
- Negative
- 8663.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,819,416
- Estimated revenue
- $18,175,966
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 100.35%
- Estimated copies lost
- 786
- Estimated revenue lost
- $7,852
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 100.4% Avg playtime 0.9h | 622.2% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 883.1% Avg playtime 50.5h | 2,68194.4% Avg playtime 42.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 7.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 91.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,636 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
2,841 total
Organic purchasers2,74996.8%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations923.24%
Voted up: 99%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
2,841 total
First impression0-2h1645.77%
Voted up: 92%
Mid game2-10h1,17741.4%
Voted up: 96%
Late game10-20h58420.6%
Voted up: 97%
Endgame20h+91632.2%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
98.1%
Global baseline 96.6%
53 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 23,137 total.