Maa Gamer

Mini Motorways seems to be one of the more popular and addictive titles on Apple Arcade. If I were an over 40s video game player, I’d describe it as Jony Ive’s version of Transport Tycoon (I am BTW).  All complexity is ripped away like an unsightly headphone socket, leaving the player with nothing more than drawing roads and plopping in the odd roundabout or traffic management trope. How interesting can that be you might scream from behind your tiny steering wheel, well lots it seems. Each level starts off with a mini-Ikea (I’m assuming because tons of people drive to them) and a couple of houses. How delightful the players face gleams, slowly smudging their little finger from one to the other. Little cars drive happily from Home to overpriced 3D furniture puzzles. Ahh, but what’s this, more and more appear, green shops, blue and little houses and cars that only prefer certain outlets. Slowly but steadily chaos ensues. Getting to this stage might seem painful but somehow the sereni...