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This simulation strategy game, released in 2015, challenges players to design subway systems for growing cities. It has garnered over 12,522 Steam reviews. Publisher/developer attribution is not yet imported.
Overview
Mini Metro is a 2015 Indie game developed by Dinosaur Polo Club and published by Dinosaur Polo Club. On Steam it has gathered 12,694 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Dinosaur Polo Club with publisher Dinosaur Polo Club is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 647,000 to 1.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Mini Metro can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
12,694
Positive
96%
Steam appid
287980
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
161
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.0647K to 1.5M
units (median: 1.1M)
≈ $3.7M to $8.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Mini Metro at roughly 647,000 to 1.5 million copies, with a median around 1.1 million, derived from its 12,694 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
54 observed days · window low $3.99Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-05.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
StrategyPuzzleMinimalistSimulationTrainsIndieSingleplayerCasualManagementRelaxing2DTransportationBuildingTouch-FriendlyMouse onlyDifficultGreat SoundtrackAddictiveReplay ValueTop-Down
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Mini Metro sold?
- indielist estimates Mini Metro has sold between 647,394 and 1,510,586 units (median 1,078,990), derived from its 12,694 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Mini Metro?
- Mini Metro was developed by Dinosaur Polo Club and published by Dinosaur Polo Club.
- Who published Mini Metro?
- Mini Metro was published by Dinosaur Polo Club, developed by Dinosaur Polo Club. See Dinosaur Polo Club's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Mini Metro released?
- Mini Metro was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does Mini Metro have on Steam?
- Mini Metro has 12,694 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is Mini Metro worth playing?
- Steam players rate Mini Metro 96% positive across 12,694 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Mini Metro can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Game Dev Tycoon, Prison Architect, Baba Is You, World of Goo, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Dinosaur Polo Club's other releases and Dinosaur Polo Club's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Mini Metro sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Mini Metro page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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- W
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