The massive news, announced exclusively earlier today at Future Games Show Live from LA, is finally here: Creative Mode is coming to Mini Motorways this August 26th PT. We’ve been revving with excitement to share this with you all!

That’s right, commuters, you’ll finally be able to take the tools into your own hands. From changing the colours of buildings, pivoting those pesky destinations, and even deleting them entirely from the map. Not to mention the access to (almost) unlimited upgrades, Creative Mode gives you more freedom than ever before. We’ve seen the beauties you’ve all managed with the game’s existing tools and can’t wait to see what you build now that your creativity will be fully unleashed! 

As it’s been one of our most-requested features, we hope you enjoy this new game mode. And thank you for sticking with us on this road trip! With August just around the corner, our dinos will be busy putting the final polish on the Creative Mode update ahead of its official launch across all platforms on August 26 PT! 

Follow us on Facebook, Bluesky, and Instagram as we reveal more exciting previews of Creative Mode and everything else the future has in store for Mini Motorways.

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Our Mini Motorways world tour continues with our next location being the bucket list Europe destination: Copenhagen.

This eco-friendly city of Denmark, renowned for its spire-studded skyline and sustainable design, is a shining feast for the eyes and your civil engineering prowess. With medieval patina spires soaring above the streets, colourful landmark buildings, and a network of scenic waterways to navigate, Copenhagen is a perfect place to sharpen your city-building skills while soaking in the history.

Be sure to capture your Euro-trip adventure with our updated Cinematic Mode, available in our content-capturing menu! Immerse yourself and celebrate the city you’ve created, with smooth camera pans across the map and the ability to follow your individual commuters on their journeys. 

And returning for the first time since our Miniversary maps, train lines are making a roundtrip in the stunning city of Copenhagen. How will you manage your multiple networks with a community of commuters committed to green living?

Take a look at the nuts and bolts of what you’ll find in this exciting update:

• A brand new map: Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Improvements and additions to our Cinematic Mode, offering deeper immersion and better UI for exploring your bespoke cities. 
• A unique visual easter egg unique to the map of Copenhagen – keep your eyes on the skies, or should we say spires…
• Train lines are making their way back to Mini Motorways for the first time since the 10-year Miniversary Update, with a train line featured in the Copenhagen map.
• New Achievements, Daily Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and City Challenges.
• Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

And, if you’re curious about our latest studio adventures from us at fbxidetey.xyz —from biking in the #AotearoaBikeChallenge to exclusive artwork previews—be sure to follow us on our new Bluesky account and on Instagram!

What are you waiting for? Copenhagen awaits!

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2025 promises to be a big year for Mini Motorways, and we’re kicking things off in the usual fashion with a map update early in the year. However, later this year, we’re launching a highly anticipated community feature that’s been cooking for some time. Our team is immensely proud of the work they’ve put in on this one, and we think you’re going to love it, too.

Rounding out the year, we wouldn’t be Dinosaur Polo Club without a December update of some kind, and we’re already hard at work on our December map! We’re hoping it comes as a bit of a fun surprise – December is the season for that sort of thing, right?

Thank you again for your support, your time, for helping your fellow players learn the ropes – let’s make this another great year!

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We couldn’t have asked for a better first Australian map! As a New Zealand-based studio, many of us have fallen in love with the natural landscape across the ditch in Australia in person. Cairns is no exception, and we found its combination of looming mountains and sweeping beaches provide a unique challenge for new and veteran players alike.

In addition to the new map, this update also includes:

• Our newest map, Cairns, will have you connecting Australia’s bustling road network from Palm Cove to the Esplanade Lagoon. 
• Cinematic Mode! This mode pans across the map and follows your commuters on their journey 
• Improvement to Game zoom only working when the game window is in focus
• New Daily Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and City Challenges.

This is our first update since Mini Motorways turned five years old, and we wanted to share a heartfelt thank you to all of our players across the world. Your support of our work and love of our games makes our dream possible, and we look forward to bringing you even more in the years to come.

P.S. Don’t forget to vote in our Update-for-Charity post! Check out our latest news post to learn more.

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If you’re still playing Mini Motorways or just want to support our work, click here to vote for us by 1st November. That’s all you have to do! No need to give them your email address or private data, just fill out the ballot and you’re good to go.

Meanwhile, we’ve been hard at work on our next update, as well as planning out the next year of maps and features for you all. What city are you going to visit next? Tag us over on X or Instagram with your best guess and you might just win something nifty!

We can’t wait to show you what we’re working on – some of our team members have been to this city recently and they fell in love! We think you will, too. See you there!

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First things first, ‘Mini’ will always be our jam. We have loved working on Mini Metro and Mini Motorways over the years, and we’ve been thrilled to work on the next installment in the Mini series while we’ve continued supporting our existing titles. In fact, we just gave the green light to our next Mini, but more on this later! While we continued to expand our Mini-world, we wanted to provide our team an opportunity to explore something entirely new in parallel to ‘Mini’ development, which is how we arrived at Magic School. This new project was an opportunity for our artists to step out of the minimalist beauty that is iconic ‘Mini’ and get out their oil paints, canvas, and cloth to concept stunning characters, unique magically-minded tools, and castles set in impressionistic meadows and snow-capped cliffsides. It allowed our programmers and designers breadth and time to discover and iterate on entirely new ways of creating management simulation games with unique character interactions and exciting resources, with the intention of giving our existing Mini community a chance to see what ‘Mini’ could look like in a totally different universe, through the lens of our dino eyes but still wholly different. 

While we most certainly achieved so much during our prototyping of Magic School, we ultimately arrived at the conclusion that, while the game showed much promise, it was not for us to make. In order to showcase the features we’d crafted and the ideas our team had produced, the scope would need to be greater than we’d anticipated, and our resources as a small indie studio were limited while we tried to support two existing titles while developing a third title in that franchise alongside the development of an entirely new monolithic game. 

We’re sad to say goodbye to Magic School, but we’re incredibly grateful for all that it’s taught our small studio. We know that amongst a never-ending cycle of industry layoffs, it’s rare to see a studio cancel a project and not let any of their team go. This is one of our pillars as a studio: support our dinos and support our industry, ensuring that we retain our incredible talent. While none of our dinos will be leaving due to this project being canceled, we’ll be waving bittersweet goodbye to Magic School, and we encourage you all to check out some of the amazing art that was created from this project. 

If you’d like to read any more about this project, what our developers think about it, or see more art, check out the resources below! 

Looking to the future, we’re so excited to fully direct our efforts towards the next installment in the ‘Mini’ series, and we can’t wait to share what our team has been working on. We are endlessly grateful for the support from our community over the years, which has allowed us to explore new projects while continuing development on our existing titles. Stay tuned for exciting announcements about what’s to come, and we hope you enjoy going on a visual journey through our work on Magic School!

• Coverage by The Verge 
• ArtStation 
• YouTube

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We often get requests for recommendations of games that remind us of our own, and shapez is one of the ones we recommend. So we’ve partnered up with developer Tobias Springer to offer a bundle for folks who want to check it out! If you already have Mini Metro, you can still grab shapez at a cheeky discount to complete the bundle 

We’d love to see what you build in both shapez and Mini Metro – tag us with #SubwaysAndShapez on Facebook, X or Instagram, and we’ll share your creations! Happy building!

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In addition, kicking off this week, we’re bringing you a month of fun and games as part of Apple Arcade’s Play Together event! Starting 6th June, join us for four weeks of videos from your favourite content creators, tailored Daily and Weekly Challenges, and a chance to Play Together with some cosy community spirit. 

We are beyond grateful to have such a diverse player base from every beautiful corner of the globe! Let’s Play Together and celebrate some of our most beloved Daily and Weekly Challenges. The schedule will be as follows: 

• Week 1 will feature our new map, Vancouver, Canada!

• Week 2 heads south to Chiang Mai, Thailand!

• Week 3 takes us to Mexico City!

• Week 4 our journey winds down in Mumbai, India!

Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for highlights, giveaways, and more over the next month! We’ll be sharing details on who our streamers are and where to find them on our socials soon. Check out some of the videos our content creators have made so far:

Enjoy hunting for some fresh achievements on our new Vancouver map – we can’t wait to see you on the leaderboards!

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• A brand new map! Traverse the narrow peninsulas and rugged coves of our new map, Reykjavík.
• New Achievements, Daily Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and City Challenges.
• Changes to how our 10-year Miniversary badge operates. You can now click the badge to see what’s new in our latest update.
• You can now access the Options menu while paused.
• Additional checks for iCloud functionality to ensure save progress is synced.
• Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

As we conclude an amazing year for the Mini Collection, we want to take a moment to thank our players for celebrating our 10-year ‘Miniversary’ with us in July. In case you missed it, we dropped our biggest update to Mini Metro & Mini Motorways so far, complete with 6 beloved maps and a suite of crossover features! Read more about The Miniversary Update here.

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