![]() ![]() But it does have an endless mode where failing is impossible. This game doesn’t have an assist mode, per se. And the ring is plenty big to be able to see it even while your finger is blocking the station itself. When a station is successfully selected and added to a line, a radiating ring comes from the station in the corresponding color of the line. The game does do a few things to give indications. This is indicated by a fine white line going through the center of the colored line. It is fairly easy to have a line going past a station without stopping at the station. You have to turn it off to interact with the game, as usual, but if you want to check what shape the passengers are or if a station is on the correct track, it works just fine. Since you can pause the clock, you can use the built-in zoom feature to check things visually. Stopping it entirely can give you time to erase all your lines and start from scratch if you realize you’ve left out a station or need to reconfigure. The clock can be made to run at double speed or stopped entirely, in additional to its normal mode. However, the clock is the closest thing to an accessibility mode that there is. Some things I’d like to see would include options to enlarge the tiny station and passenger icons and customizable rail line colors. The accessibility features don’t really exist here. ![]() The text is so small, I wouldn’t even recommend trying to read it. The icons are fairly straightforward, though there is text below the icons. To select these options, you select one of two icons that pop up for you. These items include extra trains, extra train cars, extra bridges, or new station attributes like interchanges. Every so often, you’re given choices of new items to improve your metro system. Speaking of strategy, the strategy comes from the placement of your lines and the choices you make after each “week” of game time. ![]() However, you can choose your own strategy, and with careful planning, this need not be a significant hindrance. Seeing the dots while they are on the train is probably unrealistic if you’re reading this review. When they board the train, they appear as lighter than the train color. When they are at a station waiting to board a train, they appear as miniature black shapes next to the station. Seeing the shape of the passenger dots is difficult at the best of times. When the maps start getting more and more stations added, things get quite cluttered. The tracking and clutter are where the game struggles a bit. The colors of the lines cannot be changed. There are colored metro lines, and the colors are high-contrast in the way a rainbow is high-contrast. You can get to the light/dark setting from the pause menu, in the upper right hand corner. You can choose between white and black backgrounds, though while the black background may reduce eyestrain, the stations are still black with a thin white outline. The stations are small black shapes against a white, yellow, or black background. I tend to play on my long commute with no sound because I need to keep my ears free to listen for my stop to be announced. I primarily play in handheld mode so I can hold the screen closer. I also deal with eye strain if I have to focus too precisely for too long. I have color vision, but no depth perception. My visual acuity fluctuates between 20/100 and 20/500 depending on if I’m wearing contacts and how tired I am. Like many blind people, I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about public transit, and this game let me prove that I could do it better.Ībout me and my play style: I have albinism. Your goal is to get the passengers to their destination without too many passengers waiting at a station for too long. There are then passengers that are represented by the same shape of the station they need to reach. Mini Metro is a very simple game that pops up metro “stations” of different shapes and asks you to draw metro lines to connect the stations. The game is also available on Google Play, Steam, PlayStation Store, and the Apple app store. This review is discussing the Switch version of the game. ![]()
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