Mini Motorways news & patch notes

Hello, commuters! 

Drive around Istanbul, Türkiye on our next stop in our journey around the world! Istanbul is a bustling metropolis full of historical significance, iconic architecture, and renowned as the world’s only city that bridges two continents (Asia and Europe). 

From its eye-catching landscape to its unique skyline, Istanbul offers a brand new location for players to put their city-planning skills to the test. This city comes with its own unique challenges. Transport millions of passengers across Istanbul, accounting for bridges, boats, and a ferry terminal, full of passengers as you navigate the waters of the Bosphorus Strait. 

This update also introduces the ability to Continue In Creative Mode! Adapt your map to your liking in this brand new feature, where you can continue your journey in Creative Mode after you have encountered Game Over on a map. This feature has been highly requested by fellow commuters, and we’re super excited to finally bring it to you! 

This update to Mini Motorways includes:

• A brand new map: Istanbul, Türkiye

• The return of boats and ferry terminals! Operating in a similar way to train stations and trains, it’s your job to ensure boats transporting passengers to ferry terminals don’t interrupt the flow of traffic.

• New Achievements, Daily Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and City Challenges.

• This map introduces the ability to “Continue in Creative Mode”! Carry on city planning in Creative Mode after reaching ‘Game Over’ on a map. 

• Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

Thank you to everyone who voted in our player-voted map competition! Over 7500 votes later, Singapore was the clear winner, and we’re already hard at work building the coastline so we can share it with you all later this year. 

Next week, we’ll be unveiling our latest update, which features a new city as well as the ability to Continue in Creative Mode anytime you hit the “Game Over” screen. 

As mentioned above, our newest map is a transcontinental treasure, a storied city rich with history and perfect for the Mini Motorways puzzle.

See you next week! Any guesses as to where we’re headed? 

Beep beep! If you’ve been conflicted about whether to design a system of subways or draw up roads that connect a growing metropolis, then worry no more! Both Mini Metro and Mini Motorways are respectively 60% and 30% off, so the only choice you have to make is how to lay out your city. 

We’ve been hard at work at Dino HQ! Next week, a brand new map will be coming to Mini Motorways (looking at you, fellow Mini players, we know this one was a popular request 👀), and in Q3 2026, Singapore, the winner of our player-voted map competition will be joining us. We’ve also got a very exciting language update on the way - more on this soon! 

Thank you to each and every single one of you for playing, voting, posting, enjoying our games. Whether you’re new here, or following along for a while, here’s to ‘Mini’ more years with you all. ♥️

We’re always excited when we get to invite our players to the table to collaborate. As a part of our busy 2026, we’d love to hear from you which of these cities would serve as a worthy addition to Mini Motorways, both beautiful enough for our luxe art treatment and challenging enough to keep players on their toes! 

Choose from one of the following cities:

• Auckland, New Zealand: Located in the Southern Hemisphere, this coastal metropolis is built on an active volcanic field, and harbors two distinct major bodies of water - the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean. 

• Lima, Peru: Known for its rich history and vibrant food culture, this South American desert city is the second-most populous on the continent, and has multiple rivers flowing through it. 

• Singapore, Singapore: with its unique geography and dense urban development, Singapore is one of the world’s economic and travel hubs, home to over six million people.

• Vienna, Austria: the famous rivers Wien and Danube split the city of Vienna, known for its imperial heritage, opera house, and reputation as the City of Music. 

Our choices this time span four separate continents, and all have made it close to the top of our list in the past. We couldn’t make up our minds, so we decided our final lineup won’t be complete without your help. 

Click the link on our news page to have your say on which map makes it into the game! Voting is open until 15th May 2026 NZT!

Happy New Year, commuters!

From the rugged peaks of Lion’s Head and Table Mountain to the southern Atlantic, Cape Town is a city where nature is never anything short of panoramic. Take control of traffic in South Africa’s second-largest city, guiding commuters through tunnels and over bridges to their destinations.

We’re kicking off a big year of Mini Motorways updates with a fun one! As the first of four maps on our 2026 update roadmap, Cape Town will pose an interesting challenge for puzzle-minded players and offer coastal aesthetic opportunities for those who prefer to explore in Creative or Endless Mode. 

This update includes:

• A brand new map: Cape Town!

• New Daily and Weekly Challenges

• General bug fixes and polish

• Opt-in anonymized analytics collection has been added to the game. These analytics are used by Dinosaur Polo Club to improve Mini Motorways and our future games. Data collection for gameplay analytics is off by default and player consent can be changed at any time through the in-game settings. For more information see our privacy policy: https://dinopoloclub.com/games/mini-motorways/privacy-policy

If you want a peek at our future plans for the rest of the year, head over to our update roadmap. We’ve got three more updates coming around the bend this year, plus community events and more!

And as always, thank you for spending another year with us. We’ll see you next time!

Take a road trip with us as we cruise along the Golden Mile, arriving at our destination, Hong Kong. Our Harbor Lights & Neon Nights Update explores the famous fragrant harbor of this iconic port city, renowned for its rich cultural heritage and colorful neon streets. 

From the harbor glow to the electric lotus sky, Hong Kong offers a gorgeous new landscape for you to design your dream city. Surrounded by water dotted with the famous Star Ferries, you’ll have to navigate the flow of Hong Kong’s residents as they go about their daily lives.

Don’t miss out on exploring this new city with our recently released Creative Mode! With ultimate creativity unlocked, this mode allows you to design the bustling streets of our brand-new Hong Kong map just the way you like it. 

This update to Mini Motorways includes:

• A brand new map: Hong Kong!

• Ferry terminals! Hong Kong introduces boats to the waterways of the Fragrant Harbour. Operating in a similar way to train stations and trains,  it’s your job to ensure these new floating obstacles don’t interrupt your traffic! Ferry terminals are new building types that will require careful planning and attention as you navigate ways across the water for your commuters.

• New Achievements, Daily Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and City Challenges.

• Don’t miss out on exploring our recently released Creative Mode.

• Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

As we were gearing up to celebrate the beauty of Hong Kong upon the release of this update, we were saddened to hear of the tragic high-rise fire in the Tai Po district. As such, we are pairing this update with a donation to the Tai Po Fire Emergency Appeal run by the Hong Kong Red Cross. To those who have lost a loved one, been displaced from their homes, or are otherwise impacted by this devastating incident, our hearts go out to you. Kia kaha from New Zealand.

Hi, everyone!

As promised, we’re hot off the tails of the reveal of our beautiful Hong Kong map at Cozy Quest–coming this December!–and now seems like a great time to share everything that’s coming around the bend in the future, too.

Next year, we’ll have four updates for you! 

• In February, we’ll have a new map and be prepping some backend stuff.

• Come June, another new map with some additions to Creative Mode!

• A new map awaits in September, plus some Creative Mode quality-of-life tweaks annnnd a big community surprise!

• Then, as usual, we’ll have a new map to close out the year in December.

We can't wait to see you again in December for our Hong Kong update! It's a city that's near and dear to some of us who have travelled and spent time with friends there. Beautiful by both day and night, set on a gorgeous and tricky landscape, it's a perfect Mini Motorways city.

Looking back as we near the end of 2025, we're so proud of the work our team has done on big updates like Creative Mode and little things like bugfixes alike. But even moreso, we're so impressed by the creativity and ingenuity of our players. All the screenshots, gifs, YouTube videos, your thoughtful suggestions and questions. We're so lucky to have the players we do.

Thanks again, and we'll see you in December and beyond!

It’s a long-awaited day at Dino HQ, Commuters.

We’re so excited to finally bring you our Creative Mode, inspired by the one you know and love from Mini Metro. Palette-swap your buildings, rotate those pesky driveways, delete buildings, place them wherever your heart desires, and utilise almost unlimited upgrades in a game mode that offers you an all-new way to explore every map you’ve unlocked!

You’ve asked for this one a lot, and we’ve needed to do some tinkering behind the scenes, but it’s finally ready for your magic touch. We can’t wait to see what you build, be it your own hometown, the precise and symmetrical city of your dreams, or a horrifying mess. 

Thank you so much for sticking with us for almost six years of Mini Motorways. Disasterpeace has also stuck around, joining us again for this update with an all-new procedurally generated soundscape unique to maps played in Creative Mode.

Creative Mode gives you the ability to:

• Place and edit destinations! Rotate, flip, delete, or adjust colours to your liking.

• Place and edit houses! Change colours or delete houses as you see fit.

• Explore Creative Mode across ALL 23 maps and experience Mini Motorways like never before. 

• Creative Mode will be available on every map you have unlocked so far.

• This update also features various improvements and bug fixes, including updated audio in our new Cinematic Mode.

We really do want to see your masterpieces, so upload your screenshots to the community hub or tag us on your social platform of choice to share your charming or cursed creations!

The cities of the world are your playground with our upcoming Creative Mode, landing on August 26th! Get to know your favourite Mini Motorways maps all over again: swap colours, delete buildings, and design a city where everything is just where you want it. Build with architectural precision or chaotic creative abandon–in Creative Mode, your imagination takes the driver’s seat. Did you catch our reveal trailer at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase? Whether you missed it or just want to relive the hype, you can check it out on YouTube. We’re thrilled to deliver this hotly anticipated game mode to our awesome Mini Motorways community. Thank you for your years of support and for allowing us to live our dreams, making games. Sharing this creative joy with our players is a daily reminder of why we love what we do and how lucky we are to have you along for the ride. We hope you enjoy Creative Mode, and we can’t wait for you to show us your creations, whether they’re masterpieces or “masterpieces”!

• A brand new map: Copenhagen, Denmark.
• The Copenhagen Metro! Train lines are making their way back to Mini Motorways for the first time since the 10-year Miniversary Update
• Improvements and additions to our Cinematic Mode, offering deeper immersion and better UI for exploring your bespoke cities.
• A visual easter egg hidden away in the map - best of luck spotting it!
• New Achievements, Daily Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and City Challenges.
• Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

• 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 Achievements, Daily Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and City Challenges.
• Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

• A brand new map! Take a trip to the west coast of Canada and explore the highly-requested city of Vancouver, our latest Mini Motorways map.
• New Achievements, Daily Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and City Challenges.
• Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Updated in-game button with a new look and feel.
• There is a known issue in this build: when the 'Analytics Report' option is deselected, the analytics are not disabled until the game is next restarted. Though this has no impact on gameplay, we're still working on a patch to ensure analytics are disabled as soon as that option is chosen.

• From the East River to Central Park. Redesign the roads of New York City’s concrete jungle!
• Labelled as India’s own ‘City of Dreams’, how will you control the traffic in the bustling metropolis of Mumbai?
• Traverse the River Thames or recreate Trafalgar Square; London’s traffic is now in your hands in this brand-new map!